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Peter Barnes (10 January 1931 – 1 July 2004) was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His best known work is the play The Ruling Class , which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
Feb 10, 2021 · The revival of four of his Barnes People monologues shines a light on one aspect of a career that was more wide-ranging and ambitious – and more unruly - than that of almost any of his ...
Jul 3, 2004 · Peter Barnes, the sardonic English playwright best known in this country for his play and film ''The Ruling Class,'' died on Thursday at a London hospital. He was 73. The cause was a heart attack ...
Peter Barnes: the Playwright who Laughed at Death. The death on 1 July 2004 of the playwright Peter Barnes robbed the British theatre of one of its most individual and richly imaginative yet shamefully neglected writers. Although his best known work for the theatre – which included The Ruling Classes, The Bewitched, Laughter, Red Noses, and ...
Peter Barnes was an Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Barnes achieved critical acclaim and box-office success with his baroque comedy, The Ruling Class, in 1968. He later adapted his play into a 1972 film which garnered Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination before becoming a cult classic. Known best as a playwright of dark historical comedies, Barnes wrote widely for films,
Jan 27, 2015 · Peter Barnes, playwright. Photograph: Denis Thorpe for the Guardian. Peter Barnes (1931-2004) first came to attention with The Ruling Class in 1968 and this play, which now posts his name outside ...
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"Peter Barnes" published on by null. (1931–2004)Playwright, born in east London, educated at Stroud Grammar School. His first real success came with The Ruling Class (1969), a bizarre farce exploring the mechanics of power, but ...
