Farewell to the Theatre
From: Thursday, 1st March 2012
To: Saturday, 7 April 2012
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Synopsis
Widely regarded as the man who laid the foundations of modern British theatre, Harley Granville-Barker was famed for his Shakespeare productions and wrote and produced ground-breaking new plays in the early twentieth century. He lectured at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Harvard. Richard Nelson’s new play finds him embittered and world-weary in Massachusetts in 1916, with war raging in Europe, having fallen in with a group of British expatriates endeavouring to find their way in an academic, theatre obsessed community.
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Michael Coveney - 8 March 2012
Richard Nelson has stolen his title for his elusive new play about Harley Granville Barker in America from the short play Granville Barker wrote in 1916 before going into the army; he’d already served with the Red Cross in France and made his reputation as the outstanding actor, director and playwright (second only to his great friend and colleague, Bernard Shaw) of his day.
Granville Barker’s two-hander shows an actress on the brink of discovering that theatre must change and that “truth lives where only other people are.” Nelson gives us a portrait of Granville Barker (Ben Chaplin) at a similar crossroads in a boarding house in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he is renewing his faith in theatre.
But his life is complicated by his separation from the actress Lillah McCarthy and his new attachment to Helen Huntington, neither of whom appear in the play, alas. He is being sounded out for a job in the university, and he...
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Dave J - 20 March 2012:
Disappointing - a chance to explore the life and techniques of the man weho changed our approacch to Shakespeare -here sidelined to a varsity debate between academic rivals in America where HGB was in linmbo -so is the play...
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Richard Nelson (Author)
Hampstead Theatre (Producer)
Roger Michell (Director)
Hildegard Bechtler (Design)
Rick Fisher (Lighting)
John Leonard (Sound)
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