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Article: Arts Diary: Double bill is a laughing matter.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2003
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Byline: Philip Key
DIRECTOR Max Stafford-Clark always chooses his plays for good reason. So, I wonder, why adoublebillat the Liverpool Playhouse next week which includes Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy SheStoops toConquer?
By way of reply he quotes a line from the other play, a new one, A Laughing Matter by AprilDe Angelis.
This play attempts to go behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal,Drury Lane, in 1773 when SheStoops toConquer was first staged.
``There is a line in the first scene of A Laughing Matter,'' says Stafford-Clark, ``where Goldsmith asks: `Is the credit of our own age nothing? Must our own times pass away unnoticed by ...