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From: JOSEPHINE DYER <[log in to unmask]>
The playtext for the Prince of Homburg has been
published, and is available as a programme text from
The Swan and the Lyric Hammersmith.
ISBN: 1 84002 2671
It can also be ordered online from Oberon Books via
the National Theatre bookshop on www.oberonbooks.com.
If you would like to receive a review copy, please
contact Jo on [log in to unmask]
--- Duncan Large <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Lyric Hammersmith and The Royal Shakespeare Company
>
> THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG
>
> Heinrich von Kleist
> A New Version By Neil Bartlett with David Bryer
>
> The night before he leads his troops into battle,
> the Prince of Homburg strips
> off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck,
> his mind races with a
> young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory.
> But when morning comes,
> a single reckless act of disobedience sets in motion
> a chain of events that
> seems to lead inexorably to the one thing he never
> dreamt would happen; his
> own death.
>
> Neil Bartlett directs a company of fourteen in
> Kleist's passionate masterpiece
> set amidst the cruel splendours of nineteenth
> century Prussia.
>
> Swan Theatre, RSC, Stratford on Avon
> http://www.rsc.org.uk/plays/homburg/
> 30 January - 16 February
>
> Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
> http://www.lyric.co.uk/production/mainhouse.html
> 22 February - 30 March
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