I have seen more bad productions of The Tempest than good ones. Ironically, the best productions were in Russian (directed by Declan Donnellan), in Japanese (directed by Yukio Ninagawa) and on film (i ...
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Dodie Smith (1896-1990), best known today for her novels, I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, was a prolific and highly successful playwright. She had six long-running plays in th ...
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The opportunities to see George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra in England have been rare. There was a major film in 1945, with an excellent cast which included Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Flora R ...
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Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...
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