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I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.' – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World …
'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- WoyzeckGeorg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely …
Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre – but eight Tony awards and …
‘Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe!’ – Peter PanPeter Pan is a narrative many of us believe we know well, and yet the J.M. Barrie play that premiered on a West …
"Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to play this particular scene tonight." - SabinaThornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an audacious stretch of western …
‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood.’ – All togetherIn 1987, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, …
"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." - Henry George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit …
‘All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.’ TerryHarold Pinter’s Party Time (1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright’s key concerns. Pulsing with …
"One more dawn! One more day! One day more!"Did Les Misérables make you miserable? Or did it inspire you? When Sarah Whitfield was a teenager, her Dad frequently embarrassed her …
""I'm good Hamlet gi'me a cause for grief""At first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with …