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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, the British playwright who penned The Ruling Class and Red Noses , embracing slapstick, surprise and hectic comedy, died of a heart attack July 1, The New York Times reported.
Jul 5, 2004 · Peter Barnes, the playwright who died on Thursday aged 73, brought a startling new tone of Jonsonian satire to the post-war British theatre; but with the exception of The Ruling Class (1968), his ...
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 was a controversial English playwright with an international reputation. His plays are all complex, seriocomic or satirical studies in opposites and extremes.
Search for: 'Peter Barnes' in Oxford Reference ». (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 ...
