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Article: THEATRE REVIEW: A Laughing; Matter at the Liverpool Playhouse.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2003
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LAUGHING Matter is to Oliver Goldsmith what the play Amadeus was to Mozart. Both present their leading characters as ridiculous and geniuses.
April De Angel is wrote it as a companion piece to a production of Goldsmith's SheStoops To Conquer,one of the classic comedies.
That National Theatre/Out of Joint co-production of She Stoops opened this week at the Playhouse where A Laughing Matter will play in tandem.
It's the story ofGoldsmith and his attempt to get his play produced by the biggest actor of the day,David Garrick. Despite being promoted by Goldsmith's friend the great Dr.
Johnson, the play was considered too lewd by Garrick who ...