Jean Racine (1639-1699) the great French playwright, the leading tragic dramatist of his day, is rarely performed In England. Britannicus premiered in Paris in 1669. I have seen two excellent producti ...
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French playwright Florian Zeller’s latest play, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Jonathan Kent, has its premiere in London rather than in Paris. Zeller is the author of the multi-awar ...
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Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Peter Gynt at National Theatre/Olivier, London When the 39-year-old Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in 1867 he thought of it as a long dramatic poem and never thought it would be s ...
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