Amongst Friends
Hampstead
Taking Sides/Collaboration
Duchess
Who wrote the first ‘dinner party from hell’ drama? Shakespeare had a couple of stabs with Titus Andronicus and the banquet scene in Macbeth where Banquo’s ghost arrives to ruin a perfectly good evening.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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