Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals was first performed 250 years ago in 1775 and was a disaster. The script was then rewritten within eleven days and the comedy, which gently mocks sentimentality, ...
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Noël Coward created Private Lives for himself and Gertrude Lawrence in 1930. It is, along with Hay Fever, his most popular play and the most often performed. Elyot and Amanda meet five years after the ...
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American playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), of German-Jewish heritage, was blacklisted in 1952 when she refused to name names before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. “I Cannot,” she ...
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How many Coronation Street actors would be bold enough to take on the role of an elegant, suave, posh,1930’s charmer in a Noel Coward play? Well, this one’s so convincing you’d think ...
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