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From the National Theatre's 2015 season of live recordings direct from the London stage, this is George Bernard Shaw's four-act...
From the National Theatre's 2015 season of live recordings direct from the London stage, this is George Bernard Shaw's four-act classic with Ralph Fiennes as Jack Tanner.
"Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.
"Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. " (National Theatre)
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"George Bernard Shaw’s experimental juggernaut — deemed unstageable in 1903 — makes for three and a half hours of tangled philosophy: a blow-away light comedy weighed down by footnotes."
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Variety
Variety"Fiennes excels as the charismatic, volatile hero of Shaw’s super-sized drama of ideas."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"Godwin’s modern-dress revival sprinkles fun on the social debate as it reduces a very masculine hero to helplessness in the face of feminine seduction."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"There's no doubting the invincible quality of the acting on show here."
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald"Fiennes brings a fierce, febrile energy to his cascade of contrarian paradoxes."
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Independent
Independent
