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22 April, 6.45pm |
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The Habit of Art
5 STARS 'Another absolute cracker, often wonderfully
and sometimes filthily funny, but also deeply and unexpectedly
moving.' Daily Telegraph
5 STARS 'Bennett the maestro returns with a multi-layered
masterpiece.' Independent
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22
April 2010
6.45 Pre-show
7pm Curtain-up
2 hours 20 minutes including interval (this is not
including 15 minute pre-show) |
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Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected
paths to thoughts he wouldn’t otherwise have had, and in this
respect versification and fornication are not so different.
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with
his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator
and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first
for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst
others, their future biographer and a young man from the local
bus station.
You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean
of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play.
Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is
about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two
difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on
growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting
when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
‘In the end,’ said Auden, ‘art is small beer. The really serious
things in life are earning one’s living and loving one’s neighbour.’
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