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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde

1994/1993, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

Of all of Oscar Wilde’s plays, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is the most timeless and universal. There is certainly very little in the play one could call dated, even more than a hundred years after it was written. Perhaps this is because it is almost pure comedy. The plot is as improbable today as…

THE PRICE by Arthur Miller

1994/1993, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

In the attic of a soon-to-be-demolished house, two brothers meet after a 16 year estrangement to dispose of their dead parents’ property The first is a policeman who sacrificed his education and probably a career as a scientist to care for his ruined, invalid father. The other, who arrives late, is an eminent surgeon who…

I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES by Neil Simon

1994/1993, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES is the poignant story of a father and daughter trying to pick up the pieces of a broken home. Set in the showbiz world of Hollywood that the author knows so well, it is about a failed scriptwriter whose struggling existence is suddenly shattered by the arrival on his…

VERONICA’S ROOM by Ira Levin

1994/1993, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

Susan Kerner, a young Boston college student and Larry Eastwood, a young lawyer she’s just met, have been enticed to the Brabissant mansion by the Mackeys, a charming, elderly Irish couple who are struck by Susan’s strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long dead daughter of the family for whom they work They view Veronica’s picture…