The Best of Friends (play)
The Best of Friends is an epistolary play by
George Bernard Shaw is considered one of the most important English-language playwrights of the 20th century. Sydney Cockerell was the curator of the
Originally produced as a stage play it first ran at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1988, with Ray McAnally as Shaw, Sir John Gielgud as Cockerell, and Rosemary Harris as McLachlan.[1]
In 1991 it was filmed for television, under the direction of Alvin Rakoff, with Patrick McGoohan as Shaw, Sir John Gielgud, and Dame Wendy Hiller.[2]
The play was also recorded as a radio dramatisation by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 30 March 1991. Gielgud was joined by Denys Hawthorne as Shaw and Rosemary Harris as McLachlan.[3]
The play was performed in New York City in 1993 with Roy Dotrice as Shaw, Michael Allinson and Diana Douglas. It was revived in 2006 at Hampstead Theatre, London and on tour, with Roy Dotrice, Michael Pennington and Patricia Routledge.[4][5]
References
- ^ "The Best of Friends | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "The Best of Friends (1991)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018.
- ^ "BBC Programme Index".
- ^ Gussow, Mel (8 March 1993). "Review/Theater; Correspondence as Conversation". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Theatre review: The Best of Friends at Hampstead Theatre". British Theatre Guide.
External links
- The Best of Friends at IMDb
- OMH 2006 Review
