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MR FOTHERGILL’S MURDER by Peter O’Donnell

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

Peter O’Donnell was born in 1920 and sold his first story at the age of 16. Drunk with success, he sobered up when he failed to sell another for two years. On leaving school, he worked for a magazine publishing company producing comics. Convinced the work was beneath his dignity, he soon had this notion…

TABLE MANNERS by Alan Ayckbourn

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

TABLE MANNERS is part of a trilogy under the general heading THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, the other two plays being ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN and LIVING TOGETHER. The plays are not consecutive, but all occur during a single week-end and each takes place in a different part of the same house. Thus we are watching…

PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

PRIVATE LIVES, in the opinion of most critics, is the likeliest candidate as Noël Coward’s masterpiece. It, along with HAY FEVER, DESIGN FOR LIVING, PRESENT LAUGHTER and BLITHE SPIRIT, admit Coward to the line of great English comic dramatists such as Congreve, Sheridan and Wilde. “With the sole exception of Bernard Shaw, Noël Coward has…

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS by Neil Simon

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

Neil Simon’s comedies have given pleasure to literally millions of theatergoers over the past three decades. Critics have ranked his plays anywhere from a “delightful evening