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GRADUATION PRODUCTION
8 - 18 October | Parade Theatre
by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart | dir. Tony Knight
| Thursday, 9 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Friday, 10 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 11 October 2003 |
2:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 11 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Tuesday, 14 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Thursday, 16 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Friday, 17 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 18 October 2003 |
2:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 18 October 2003 |
8:00:00 PM |
On its opening in September 1930, it became one of the greatest successes of its time. It has been hailed as an American classic - "a play that sets the standard for farce in the 20th century."
The play has a trio of vaudevillians travelling from New York to Hollywood to make a fast buck by selling diction lessons to actors in the new talking pictures. They find improbable success after an insult to a producer is interpreted as genius, and produce a work of art from a script rescued from the garbage. Silver-screen wit collides with behind-the-scenes lunacy in this screwball spoof of Hollywood studios and the American gift for self-invention.
Kaufman and Hart were the most successful collaborators of their generation. The popularity of their plays was so tremendous during their partnership and their plays have continued to be so popular ever since, that they seem, in the present day, to have been "always there"-like Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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