There have been plays and films about Shakespeare, notably Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love. There have been plays and films about Christopher Marlowe, notably Peter Whelan’s The School of Night. Li ...
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Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, which premiered in London in 1893 to a bad press, is not the easiest of his plays; but the leading role has attracted actors of the calibre of Michael Redgrave, Laur ...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus was first performed in Greece in 429 BC. 2,500 years on, it still has the power to shock. Oedipus does not know he has killed his father and marred his mother. The great thing about ...
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Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece is one of the great American plays. It is, perhaps, the most powerful and acrimonious of all 20th century family dramas. Written in blood and tears, the play was an act of ...
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