The Invention of Love

Play :: show/work:S3739, production/tour:T0853954671

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8 Oct 98 to 24 Oct 98

The Invention of Love Play :: listing:L37575006, production:T0853954671, show:S3739, venue: V702

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford Surrey

Details

Written 1997. A play about the poet A E Housman, auther of 'A Shropshire Lad'. Housman was also a great, though not well loved, classical scholar. Poetry, scholarship and love and entwined in this sympathetic view of a private life lived parallel to the public career of his near-contemporary Oscar Wilde. The story is not a literal biography. Winner of Best Play Award in the 1997 Evening Standard Awards.
Performers John Wood, John Carlisle, Hugh Ross, David Ryall, Paul Shelley, Ben Porter. Author Tom Stoppard. Director Richard Eyre. Design Anthony Ward.