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| − | ''Another Country'' by Julian Mitchell. ** This play starring [[Sean Taylor]], [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jeremy Crutchley]] and [[John Carson]], directed by [[Nikolas Simmonds]] with lighting design by [[Pip Marshall]] opened at the [[Baxter Theatre|Baxter]] on 17 June 1983 before this Baxter production moved to the [[Market Theatre|Market]] with minor cast changes in July 1983. | + | ''Another Country'' by Julian Mitchell. ** |
| + | Another Country is a play written by the English playwright Julian Mitchell. It premiered on 5 November 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre in southeast London and transferred to the West End in March 1982. In the summer of 2000, the play was revived at the Oxford Playhouse, in a new production directed by Stephen Henry, and from 4 September 2000 until 28 January 2001 the revival played at the Arts Theatre, Westminster. In February 2013 the play will return for one week to the Oxford Playhouse in a new revival by OUDS-supported Oxford University student company Screw the Looking Glass. | ||
| + | Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed "Guy Bennett" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools. | ||
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| + | The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. | ||
| + | (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Country_(play)). | ||
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| + | This play starring [[Sean Taylor]], [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jeremy Crutchley]] and [[John Carson]], directed by [[Nikolas Simmonds]] with lighting design by [[Pip Marshall]] opened at the [[Baxter Theatre|Baxter]] on 17 June 1983 before this Baxter production moved to the [[Market Theatre|Market]] with minor cast changes in July 1983. | ||
Revision as of 18:13, 11 July 2013
Another Country by Julian Mitchell. ** Another Country is a play written by the English playwright Julian Mitchell. It premiered on 5 November 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre in southeast London and transferred to the West End in March 1982. In the summer of 2000, the play was revived at the Oxford Playhouse, in a new production directed by Stephen Henry, and from 4 September 2000 until 28 January 2001 the revival played at the Arts Theatre, Westminster. In February 2013 the play will return for one week to the Oxford Playhouse in a new revival by OUDS-supported Oxford University student company Screw the Looking Glass. Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed "Guy Bennett" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools.
The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Country_(play)).
This play starring Sean Taylor, Neil McCarthy, Jeremy Crutchley and John Carson, directed by Nikolas Simmonds with lighting design by Pip Marshall opened at the Baxter on 17 June 1983 before this Baxter production moved to the Market with minor cast changes in July 1983.
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