John Gielgud

 

A poetic Judgment Day farce, once popularized by Burton and Gielgud, gets another stab at New York

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It’d be more difficult to describe The Lady’s Not For Burning, the 1948 play by Christopher Fry, if it weren't for an accident of timing: the theater group Parenthesis presents the farce, which is built upon the craziness that ensues when everyone in a tiny medieval village becomes convinced that Judgment Day is at hand. More

By Mark Sullivan

May 26, 2011 8:09 am

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