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A two-person play by American playwright [[William Luce]].  
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A two-person play by American playwright William Luce (born 1931) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luce].  
  
 
== Subject ==
 
== Subject ==
The play depicts the actor [[John Barrymore]] a few months before his death in 1942 as he is rehearsing a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph as Richard III. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrymore_%28play%29]
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The play depicts the actor [[John Barrymore]] a few months before his death in 1942 as he is rehearsing a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph as [[Richard III]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrymore_%28play%29]
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Latest revision as of 11:43, 6 December 2018

A two-person play by American playwright William Luce (born 1931) [1].

Subject

The play depicts the actor John Barrymore a few months before his death in 1942 as he is rehearsing a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph as Richard III. [2]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Staged by Pieter Toerien Productions in August 1998 in the Rex Garner Theatre, directed by Geoffrey Hyland, with Michael Atkinson and Adrian Galliard. The same production was staged in the Theatre on the Bay in November 1998.

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