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ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR by Alan Ayckbourn

1998/1997, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR takes place on three successive Christmas Eves in the kitchens of three different couples. In Act I, the “lower-class” but ambitious Hopcrofts give a party for their bank manager and his wife, and an architect neighbour. The Hopcrofts are nervous because the people they have invited might be useful to them on their…

AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J. B. Priestley

1998/1997, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

AN INSPECTOR CALLS is  usually seen as a social message wrapped in a detective story, or thriller. Penned in 1945 but set in 1912, the author was writing from his personal experience of two world wars and was warning of another one to come unless people changed their behaviour. For him this meant taking moral…

COME BLOW YOUR HORN by Neil Simon

2001/2000, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

There is a time in everyone’s life when you have to get serious, quit acting like a child and start acting like a grown-up. This would seem to be the message, if there is one, in Neil Simon’s autobiographical play COME BLOW YOUR HORN. Known later in Germany under three different titles (Leg doch endlich…

PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. 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 Hamburg8. 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

MR FOTHERGILL’S MURDER by Peter O’Donnell

1997/1996, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. 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 Hamburg8. 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…

AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare, adapted by Clifford Dean

1996/1995, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the action takes place in a location called the Forest of Arden..’ Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. The Duke’s daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin…

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE by Frank Marcus

1996/1995, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

Sister George is a famous character in a BBC soap opera series, a nurse who cycles about singing hymns, doing good deeds, and spreading cheer. Because of the struggle for ratings, and because there is gossip of notoriety in her personal life, the BBC decides to “kill her off” by having her involved in an…

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK by Neil Simon

1996/1995, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg8. December 2020

After a six day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case 6 cents in damages, and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high rent apartment that she has chosen for them But the difficulty is, in order to enjoy the…

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