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'Habeas Corpus'
1st, 3rd and 4th October 2008
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On of Alan Bennet's most popular plays - written in 1973 and
first presented at the Lyric Threatre, London on the 10th May 1973 - with cast
members including Alec Guiness, Madeline Smith and Andrew Sachs.
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The stage, bare
except for three chairs, represents the interior and surroundings of the
Wickstead's house in Hove. There, in a satirical merry-go-round, we meet a
family and its friends and acquaintances for whom the determination to put sex
and the satisfaction of the body (corpus) before everything else is ruling
passion of their lives. The permissive society is taken to task in a farcical
comedy in which the characters, stereotypes as their names (e.g. Canon
Throbbing) suggests, move - and indeed dance - in and out through a maze of
mistaken identities and sexual encounters. As Wickstead says, at the close, 'He
whose lust lasts, lasts longest'.
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