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March 2009 | by: Henrietta Bredin | Comments (1)

‘I have no idea what’s going on’

The shape has shifted, dazzlingly, on stage and screen, to take on Hamlet and Fagin, Henry Higgins and Lytton Strachey, Sherlock Holmes and Governor Swann in The Pirates of the Caribbean. It will be worth watching what he becomes in Dimetos.

Dimetos is previewing at the Donmar Warehouse.

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James R

March 24th, 2009 8:49am Report this comment

"I have no idea what's going on."
Obscurity may have been the zenith for this playwright.
At more recent Fugard productions, one could be asking: "Is he a blatant apologist for murderous thieves? Didn't this kind of crude leftism go out with Brecht?"

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