W. H. Auden

...is one day in the rehearsal at the National Theater of a play titled "Caliban's Day," based on a poem called "The Sea and the Mirror" by W.H. Auden. The author, Neil (Elliot Levey), is on hand as stage manager Kay (de la Tour) oversees a...

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...the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral) and Myfanwy's ramshackle kitchen, where seasoned aromas wafted, apt red wines lurked and the ghosts of WH Auden and a gangly, twentysomething Benjamin Britten perhaps still walk. Britten belonged to both...

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...Art such triumphs continue. This time he has chronicled an imagined meeting between two other stars in our artistic firmament the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. It is essentially a play within a play. Actors rehearse an...

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...manager, the playwright, the musical director, etc, who are preparing to "run" a play called Caliban's Day, about the relationship between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. Bennett has written beautifully about the reasons for his adding this...

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...schoolboys that won six Tony Awards and became a feature film. Bennett's play focuses on two now-dead British treasures -- poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten -- who in life were prickly, complex characters. The play features...

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...giving a damn about the consequences, that is hugely invigorating. The central characters are W H Auden and Benjamin Britten. Auden, now a bossy old bore has returned to Oxford in 1972, just a year before his death. Britten, meanwhile,...

In this article: Benjamin Britten, Alan Bennett, National Theatre, Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, The History Boys, Death in Venice, and W H Auden

...for the day by their director, are staging a run-through of a new play. This inset drama focuses on the poet W.H. Auden just after he's returned from half a lifetime's exile in New York for what turns out to be a lonely, unpopular retirement...

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...of putting a play together as much as it is about making music or poetry. Richard Griffiths will play the actor, Fitz, who plays the poet WH Auden in a play set in a rehearsal room as a group of actors work through a play about Auden and...

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...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 25 years, they are observed and interrupted by,...

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...been the state of the house in Middagh Street that led to unmeltable frostiness between first Pears and Auden, and subsequently Britten and Auden too? Certainly, in later life, a question about Middagh Street to Pears could always set off a...

In this article: Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, Paul Bunyan, Vera Stravinsky, Peter Pears, and Death in Venice