Oliver Goldsmith, who wrote She Stoops to Conquer under pressure of ever-mounting debts, had the greatest difficulty in getting the play on and then found the actors weren’t keen to be in it. Co ...
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I CLAUDIUS (BBC iPlayer). Intrigue, murder and lust in ancient Rome. Trust no one. The legendary 1976 TV adaptation of Robert Graves’s novels, adapted by John Pullman and directed by Herbert Wise, hol ...
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British-Brazilian-Australian writer Marcelo Dos Santos, whose charming comedy Backstairs Billy about the Queen Mother and her openly gay factotum has just opened successfully in the West End, now has ...
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Rory Mullarkey admits to being a committed socialist but his satire on the English upper classes is poor stuff and the claque’s artificially loud laughter on the press night became more and more irrit ...
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