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TIME PRESENT
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1968, poster, The English Stage Company, Duke of York's Theatre, illustration by Don Bachardy and designed by Bryan Cooper; 50 x 31cm; 52 x 33.5cm (framed); together with a black and white poster for A Sense of Detachment, The Royal Court Theatre, directed by Frank Dunlop and designed by Nadine Bayliss
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Osborne wrote Time Present at the same time as The Hotel in Amsterdam (see lot 32), the two plays planned as part of a trilogy under the general title For the Meantime. Time Present opened on 23rd May 1968 at the Royal Court Theatre. It starred Osborne's fourth wife Jill Bennett, and successfully transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in July. Bennett's performance as Pamela won her the award for Best Actress of the Year. See also note to lot 33.
A Sense of Detachment opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 4th December 1972. According to Daily Telegraph Frank Marcus it included 'the most explicitly-worded accounts of sexual perversions yet uttered on the London stage, thus driving a large number of shocked theatregoers to the exits' (Heilpern, p. 376). It received disasterous reviews, and with the likes of Tom Stoppard, Carol Churchill and David Hare on the ascendant Osborne's future as a playwright was publicly questioned.
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1968, poster, The English Stage Company, Duke of York's Theatre, illustration by Don Bachardy and designed by Bryan Cooper; 50 x 31cm; 52 x 33.5cm (framed); together with a black and white poster for A Sense of Detachment, The Royal Court Theatre, directed by Frank Dunlop and designed by Nadine Bayliss
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Osborne wrote Time Present at the same time as The Hotel in Amsterdam (see lot 32), the two plays planned as part of a trilogy under the general title For the Meantime. Time Present opened on 23rd May 1968 at the Royal Court Theatre. It starred Osborne's fourth wife Jill Bennett, and successfully transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in July. Bennett's performance as Pamela won her the award for Best Actress of the Year. See also note to lot 33.
A Sense of Detachment opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 4th December 1972. According to Daily Telegraph Frank Marcus it included 'the most explicitly-worded accounts of sexual perversions yet uttered on the London stage, thus driving a large number of shocked theatregoers to the exits' (Heilpern, p. 376). It received disasterous reviews, and with the likes of Tom Stoppard, Carol Churchill and David Hare on the ascendant Osborne's future as a playwright was publicly questioned.
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Looking Back at John Osborne: Pictures and Possessions from his Estate The Hurst, Shropshire (Timed)
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