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| − | '''''Dirty Linen''''' and '''''New-Found-Land''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Linen_and_New-Found-Land] is a pair of plays by Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard]. The two plays are always performed together | + | '''''Dirty Linen''''' and '''''New-Found-Land''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Linen_and_New-Found-Land] is a pair of plays by Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard]. The two plays are always performed together, with ''New-Found-Land'' interrupting the two parts of ''Dirty Linen''. |
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Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land [1] is a pair of plays by Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937- ) [2]. The two plays are always performed together, with New-Found-Land interrupting the two parts of Dirty Linen.
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The original text
The pair of plays was first performed in 1976 for two months at the Almost Free Theatre [3] in London, after which it moved to the Arts Theatre [4] on the West End for the next four years.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First produced in South Africa by Pieter Toerien directed by Peter Bowles, starring Charles Hawtrey, Naomi Buch, Peter Bowles, Richard Warwick and Ron Smerczak at the Johannesburg Civic and the Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town, in 1977.
Sources
Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 346 and [Collection: THEATRE PROGRAMMES]: 2012. 285. 1. 82.
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