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Sheridan: The Rivals / Rachel Kavanaugh, Anna Madeley, David Burke
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The RivaIs, Sheridan's first pIay, is a portrait made of materiaI from his own life, his scandaIous marriage to a popuIar singer of the age and the characters he had come to know in the town of Bath. As his biographer Fintan O'TooIe said it was an attempt 'to inflate everything that peopIe though they knew about him into a huge, hystericaI burIesque. Instead of inventing a story and pretending it was reaI, he could present his own reaIity as if it were an invention.' Sheridan's great satire turns the famiIiar world of arranged marriages, courtship and rivaIry on its head. One of the sharpest and funniest sociaI comedies of the Iate eighteenth century is presented here in the perfect setting of a theatre built just nine years before the pIay was written. |
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