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<body stylesrc="TextOpening.htm" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF8000" alink="#800000">  <p> </p> <p> </p> <h4 align="center"> <img src="images/peterblurb.gif" alt="The theatre and films of Peter Barnes - "one of the great geniuses of the English theatre of the past couple decades"...PLAYS AND PLAYERS..."on of the most original and biting comic writers"...THE TIMES" WIDTH="590" HEIGHT="102"><br> <a href="toc.htm">THE WEBSITE - A <strong>COMPLETE DRAMA EXPERIENCE AND DRAMA RESOURCE.</strong></a></h4> <h4 align="center"><strong><br> </strong>Peter Barnes is, I am certain, one of the major playwrights this country has produced in the second half of the twentieth century...<font FACE="Times New Roman"><b>It should draw fresh attention to the work of one of the great playwrights of our time.</b></font>--   <a href="10decbarnes/martin_esslin.htm">Martin Esslin</a>--<em>Plays Internationa</em>l critic; former head of Drama, Stanford University</h4> <p align="center">_______________________________________________________</p> <h4 align="center"><em>FOLLOWING THE NEAR SELL-OUT SUCCESS OF BARNES' PLAY JUBILEE AT THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY,<br> METHUEN PUBLICATAIONS ANNOUNCES THE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION OF <br> <font color="#008040">A NEW LITERARY STUDY OF BARNES' WORK</font> <br> AND THE PUBLICATION OF <br> <font color="#008040">VOLUME 4 OF HIS COLLECTED PLAYS.</font><br> <br> BARNES' STUDY OF ERNST LUBITSCH'S FILM <font color="#008040">TO BE OR NOT TO</font> <font color="#008040">BE</font> <br> AVAILABLE FROM THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE THIS YEAR.</em></h4> <p align="center"> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</p> <p align="center"><font size="4">Announcement:  On a rare personal note for this workaholic writer, Barnes' triplets Abigail, Nathaniel and Zachary were born 4 November 2002, <br> joining daughter Leela.</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4"> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="6"><b>JUBILEE</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4"><b>Royal Shakespeare Company production</b></font></p> <p align="center"><b>Without 18th Century actor-manager extraordinaire David Garrick's organising a Shakespeare Festival, there would be no Shakespeare industry.  Shakespeare works would have lain forgotten if they had not been plucked from relative obscurity by the actor 'superstar'.  JUBILEE tells that tale.</b></p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="Copy_of_Jub_menu.jpg" width="398" height="345"></p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="Copy_of_Jub_dir.jpg" width="30%" height="30%">     <img border="0" src="Copy_of_Jub_pb.jpg" width="40%" height="40%"></p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/Copy_of_Jub_dnc.jpg" width="482" height="404"></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img src="Dreamingwebfirew.jpg" width="365" height="565" alt="Dreamingwebfirew.jpg (26884 bytes)"></strong></p> <h5><strong>Most recent major play:</strong></h5> <h5><strong>THE LONDON PREMIERE OF                </strong></h5> <h1 align="left"><font FACE="Times New Roman"><strong>DREAMING                                 </strong></font></h1> <h5 align="left"><font FACE="Times New Roman"><strong>by PETER BARNES                                                                </strong></font></h5> <h5 align="left"><strong><font FACE="Times New Roman">PETER BARNES'S POWERFUL NEW PLAY DREAMING OPENS IN LONDON'S WEST END AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.  </font></strong></h5> <h5 align="left"><strong><font FACE="Times New Roman">DREAMING is an inspiring and humourous epic new work from Peter Barnes, one of the country's most original and intriguing playwrights.</font></strong></h5> <h5 align="left">HOT TIP!  Got a diary? Clear it!  Make frantic space for Dreaming. an awesome, visionary fantasy now scorching the Queen's Theatre!  Written by warped, glorious playwright Peter Barnes, it's unlike anything else in the West End....<a href="10decbarnes/qx_magazine.htm">QX Magazine</a></h5> <h5 align="left">DREAMING is achingly beautiful, and achingly humourous. Gerard Murphy heads a strong cast...' Tap dances and stand up comic routines mix with battles and romance in this 'powerful new play' (Guardian).<br> <br> ...Peter Barnes's remarkable play,,,theatregoers may indeed believe they are in the grip of some terrifying LSD flashback...there is real originality here...sprawlingly, admirably ambitious play....(The Daily Telegraph)<br> <br> <strong><marquee border="0" width="823" height="15" style="color: rgb(0,0,255)" bgcolor="#000000">HOT TICKET---The Guardian 'Profoundly Beautiful'---The Daily Telegraph 'Brilliantly realised'---The Independent 'This is a major play'---The Guardian</marquee></strong><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000FF"><br> </font></h5> <h5 align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"><a href="dreaming.htm">PLAY SYNOPSIS  </a>               <a href="10decbarnes/peter_barnes_plays_and_reviews.htm">BARNES BIOGRAPHY </a>               <a href="cast_for_dreaming_includes.htm">CAST</a>             <a href="10decbarnes/noah.htm">CONTROVERSY</a>                 <a href="10decbarnes/guardian.htm">REVIEWS</a>             <a href="dreaming_reviewsLondon.htm"><u>NEW LONDON REVIEWS</u></a></font></h5> <h4 align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000FF">Printed Play, published by Metheun, available in shops and  from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query/002-2370573-4381657">Amazon.com</a></font></h4> <p align="center"> </p> <h2 align="center"><img border="0" src="images/rnpst.gif" width="140" height="192"><br> <strong>8 YEAR RUN for RED NOSES</strong></h2> <h4 align="center"><em>RED NOSES, Peter Barnes' Olivier Award winning play which has had successful runs in London and the US, is in its 8th year  at Teatre Nowy, Poznan.   'Almost every theatregoer in Poznan knows this play and its heroes...a cult for many people and not only the young.'--Eugenius Korin, Artistic Director (email:   <a href="mailto:teatrnowy@info.poznan.pl">teatrnowy@info.poznan.pl</a>)</em></h4> <p align="center"> </p> <h2 align="center"><em>BARNES' FANS--Starved for Barnesian humor</em>?<br> DON'T MISS THE <em>HALLMARK CHANNEL</em> FOR <br> CONTINUOUS BARNES <em>'LITE'</em>:<br> <font color="#FF0080"><em>ARABIAN NIGHTS starring Jason Scott Lee, John Laguizamo, Rufus Sewell  <br> MERLIN  with Sam Neil, Rutger Hauer, Martin Short, Isabella Rosselini<br> NOAH'S ARK with Jon Voight, Mary Steenbergen, James Coburn, F.Murray Abrahams, Carol Kane, etc<br> ALICE IN WONDERLAND with Tina Marjorino, Gene Wilder, Peter Ustinov, Martin Short, Miranda Richardson, Whoopie Goldberg<br> A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant<br> LEPRECHAUNS with Randy Quaid,Whoopie Goldberg and Colm Meaney</em></font></h2> <p align="center"><font face="Arial Black">ALSO AVAILABLE ON DVD AND VIDEO</font></p> <h5 align="center"><em> ( Although some portions of his miniseries are just good fun or an excuse for dazzling special effects, some contain significant amounts of pure Barnes that are almost filmed Barnes' plays, ie. packed with wit, wisdom, biting satire, and anarchy)</em></h5> <h4 align="center">Hats off to Hallmark and the US networks for using a <u>serious</u>, but witty, playwright for high quality American entertainment!<br> When it is hard to get 30-character epic plays on, it is brilliant that US networks back them with $30 million productions with top casts.<br> </h4> <h1 align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000FF">THE WEBSITE</font></h1> <h6 align="center"><br> <font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"><br> </font><img src="10decbarnes/peterblurb.gif" alt="The theatre and films of Peter Barnes - "one of the great geniuses of the English theatre of the past couple decades"...PLAYS AND PLAYERS..."on of the most original and biting comic writers"...THE TIMES" WIDTH="590" HEIGHT="102"></h6> <p align="center">A <strong>COMPLETE DRAMA EXPERIENCE AND DRAMA RESOURCE.</strong></p> <h4 align="center"><img src="Rcvx_Copy_2L.jpg" WIDTH="387" HEIGHT="206"> <br> Peter O'Toole in <a href="RULINGCL.htm">THE RULING CLASS</a></h4> <h4 align="center">From the cult classic Oscar-nominated film THE RULING CLASS, a biting comic satire, to its "opposite"- the wit and charm of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated ENCHANTED APRIL (Bill Clinton's favourite film), Barnes' plays, films, television specials, musicals win the top accollades.<br> Plays, movies, televison, radio all with the original British & American casts .</h4> <h4 align="center"><br> <img src="images/rnblb.gif" alt="rnblb.gif (3941 bytes)" WIDTH="119" HEIGHT="117">                     <a href="REDNOSES.htm"><img src="images/rnpst.gif" alt="rnpst.gif (6009 bytes)" WIDTH="140" HEIGHT="192"></a>                     <img src="images/rnsnrs.gif" alt="rnsnrs.gif (3563 bytes)" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="113"></h4> <h4 align="center">Winner of  Olivier Award for Best Play of the Year, Evening Standard Best Play of the Year winner several times, Royal Society of Television Best Programme of the Year, Oscar nominations, Emmy nominations...etc...</h4> <p align="center"> </p> <h2 align="center">MAJOR PLAYS INCLUDE:</h2> <p align="center"> </p> <h4 align="center"><a href="REDNOSES.htm"><img src="images/rnpst.gif" alt="rnpst.gif (6009 bytes)" WIDTH="139" HEIGHT="191"></a>                                                    <strong><a href="dreaming_reviewsLondon.htm"><img src="Dreamingwebfirew.jpg" width="127" height="196" alt="Dreamingwebfirew.jpg (26884 bytes)"></a> <br> RED NOSES                                                                DREAMING <br>    </strong><br> <a href="RULINGCL.htm"> <img src="Rccamb_Copy_2.jpg" alt="Rccamb_Copy_2.jpg (5194 bytes)" WIDTH="247" HEIGHT="178"></a><strong>                             <a href="BEWITCHED.htm"><img src="images/bw.gif" alt="bw.gif (17513 bytes)" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="191"></a><br>     THE RULING CLASS                                                      THE BEWITCHED            </strong></h4> <h4 align="center"><strong>For a taster try <a href="barnesPeople.htm">BARNES PEOPLE</a> or <a href="barnesPeopletext.htm">BARNES PEOPLE TEXT</a>  --  30 award-winning short plays</strong><br> which starred<br> Sean Connery . . . Peter O'Toole<br> Sir Alec Guinness . . . Sir Laurence Olivier<br> Sir Peter Ustinov . . . Claire Bloom<br> Jeremy Irons . . . Alan Rickman<br> Joan Plowright . . . Sir Ian McKellan<br> Simon Callow . . . Dame Peggy Ashcroft<br> Paul Scoffield . . . Nigel Hawthorne<br> Sir John Gielgud . . . Dame Judy Dench<br> Alan Bates . . . John Hurt<br> Trevor Howard . . . Lionel Jeffries<br> Tom Conti . . . Stephen Rea<br> Donald Pleasance . . .Dame Wendy Hiller<br> and many many more of the top names in world acting<strong><br> <br> </strong></h4> <p align="center"><strong><br> </strong> <img src="Rcvm_Copy_1.jpg" width="245" height="193" alt="Rcvm_Copy_1.jpg (5458 bytes)"><img src="Rccamb_Copy_2.jpg" alt="Rccamb_Copy_2.jpg (5194 bytes)" WIDTH="247" HEIGHT="178"><img src="Rcvjk_Copy_2.jpg" width="164" height="159" alt="Rcvjk_Copy_2.jpg (2360 bytes)"></p> <p align="center"> </p> <h2 align="center">PLAYS TO BROWSE:</h2> <h3 align="center"><a href="morethanzen.htm">MORE THAN A TOUCH OF ZEN</a>-------<a href="NotAsBad.htm">NOT AS BAD AS THEY SEEM</a></h3> <h3 align="center"> <br> <a href="zentext.htm">ZEN TEXT</a> -------------------------<a href="Not%20As%20B.htm">"NOT AS BAD" TEXT </a><br> Audio on 'complete pages'</h3> <h4 align="center"><a href="barnesPeople.htm">PLAYS and MORE PLAYS</a></h4> <h4 align="center"><img src="Leo_Copy_2.jpg" WIDTH="173" HEIGHT="184"><br> <a href="Leonardo.htm">LEONARDO'S LAST SUPPER</a><br> When Leonardo da Vinci is mistakenly pronounced dead--will the undertakers kill him for the funeral payment or let the genius live--capitalism vs culture</h4> <p align="left"> </p> <h2 align="center"><img src="Space_Copy_1.jpg" alt="CG Space Fighters Take-off" WIDTH="291" HEIGHT="185"></h2> <h4 align="center"><a href="PlayofWeektext.htm">CONFESSIONS OF PRIMARY TERRESTRIAL RECEIVER AND COMMUNICATOR: NUM III MARK I</a><br> Who will aliens choose to communicate with?....Heaven's Gate or Fox Mulder?<br> SIR ALEC GUINNESS ('Obi Wan Kenobi' and distinguished classical actor) in Peter Barnes hit black-comedy monologue</h4> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <h4 align="center"><a href="toc.htm">THE WEBSITE - A <strong>COMPLETE DRAMA EXPERIENCE AND DRAMA RESOURCE.</a><br> </strong></h4> <ul type="disc"> <li><h4 align="left">Actual university and schools <a href="10decbarnes/rednStudy.htm">study guides</a> and course notes. Barnes' work is on the British school cirriculum and taught at universities world-wide.</h4> </li> <li><h4 align="left">Over <a href="barnesPeople.htm">60 monologues</a> and short plays ideal for auditions and showcases are featured. Over 100 of the world's greatest actors display their unique skills.</h4> </li> <li><h4 align="left">Barnes lectures; and lectures about Barnes, the theatre, life and taxes by top academics world-wide.  <a href="PBShakesp.htm">Barnes's Shakespeare</a>; <a href="RULINGCL.htm">The Ruling Class</a>.</h4> </li> <li><h4 align="left"><a href="mainstage.htm"><font FACE="Times New Roman">Major Plays</font></a></h4> </li> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li><h4 align="left">The inside story on <a href="10decbarnes/writing_for_theatre.htm">writing for the theatre & movies</a>.</h4> </li> <li><h4 align="left">An audition resource for professional and aspiring actors.</h4> </li> </ul> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <h2 align="center"><em><u>Peter Barnes 'Lite'</u></em></h2> <h4 align="center"><em>--(his 'entertainments' as Graham Greene would classify them):</em></h4> <h4 align="center">BARNES' FANS--Starved for Barnesian humor-- NBC'S MERLIN, the Hallmark mini-series, available on video from NBC <br> and in print at your local bookshop- <br> <u>MERLIN has been nominated for 15 EMMY awards--including Best Writer for a Miniseries for Peter Barnes</u></h4> <h4 align="center"><em>with Sam Neil, Rutger Hauer, Martin Short and Isabella Rosselini, final script by Peter Barnes--</em></h4> <h4 align="left"><em>Also available on video:<br> </em>Hallmark miniseries written by Peter Barnes include--NOAH'S ARK starring Jon Voight, F. Murray Abrahams, Mary Steenbergen and Carol Kane.<br> --ALICE IN WONDERLAND starring Martin Short, Whoopie Godlberg (the Cheshire Cat), Christopher Lloyd, Gene Wilder, Peter Ustinov. <br> --ARABIAN NIGHTS teaming Barnes again with MERLIN director Steve Barron starring Jason Scott Lee and Rufus Sewell, a thiry million dollar project shot in Turkey and Morocco. <br> --Christmas 1999 on TNT, Barnes' adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL which  will star Patrick Stewart as Scrooge.<br> --Leprechauns starring Randy Quaid and Whoopie Goldberg rolls on 31 May at London's Shepperton (NBC  needed to fill a time slot and Leprechauns was done in 5 months instead of the usual quality Hallmark 12-18 months--no serious director would do the project in that time and it rather showed.  NBC thought Hallmark could do the impossible, but Hallmark should have turned them down.  Don't blame Barnes, he'd just started writing the script for production the following year when it was rushed into production in a matter of weeks.)<br> </h4> <p align="left"> </p> <h5 align="center"><a href="10decbarnes/a_theatre_crusade.htm">A THEATRE CRUSADE--A WEB EDITORIAL</a><br> It is rare for a 'serious' play, (however witty),  with 25 characters,  that isn't a musical,   with no American TV or movie stars,  to make it to the West End.  Please support DREAMING <u>and</u> all other plays of its scale to keep extravagent,  epic theatre alive.  </h5> <h4 align="left">Why is it that most people who visit this site visit THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BELLY DANCING! I refuse to put in a link here--explore Barnes' work--if you'd looked might have found MOONDOG GROGAN AND THE TINY HAMPSTER about two female mud wrestlers. Serious drama can be funny, sexy, bizarre.  <a href="10decbarnes/peter_barnes_plays_and_reviews.htm">Good Reviews</a>--<a href="10decbarnes/bad_reviews.htm">Bad Reviews</a>--to present a thoroughly balanced view of Barnes.</h4> <p align="center"><img src="10decbarnes/csotn-st.gif" hspace="10" WIDTH="72" HEIGHT="60"></p> <h3 align="center"><a href="opening.htm">Audio/Video Version </a></h3> <h3 align="center"><a href="textTOC.htm">Text Only Version</a></h3> <p align="center">All Barnes plays are available at Amazon.com--there are direct links on the web pages devoted to the different plays or at the store.  The Amazon site has not been recently updated.  Most listed books <u>are</u> in print.  French's Bookstore in London and Los Angeles and the Theatre Bookshop in New York have a wide selection, as well as acting editions.  Dillions and most British book chains carry them as well.  </p> <p align="center"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="7, 0, 81, 14" HREF="greenroo.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="5, 2, 83, 14" HREF="greenroo.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map"><img src="images/bgreen.jpg" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap1"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="5, 1, 82, 14" HREF="whatson.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map1"><img src="images/bwhat26.jpg" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap1"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap2"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="6, 3, 82, 14" HREF="celeb.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map2"><img src="images/bcele26.jpg" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap2"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap3"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="4, 4, 83, 12" HREF="mainstage.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 4, 83, 13" HREF="mainstage.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map3"><img src="images/bmain26.jpg" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap3"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap4"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 3, 83, 14" HREF="PlayofWeek.htm"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="4, 4, 83, 14" NOHREF><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="2, 3, 82, 13" HREF="10decbarnes/nowplay.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map4"><img src="images/bplay26.jpg" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap4"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap5"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="6, 2, 78, 13" HREF="movingpic.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map5"><img src="images/bmov26.gif" border="0" width="84" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap5"></a><br> <MAP NAME="FrontPageMap6"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 2, 64, 13" HREF="feedback.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map6"><img src="images/bfeed26.jpg" border="0" width="65" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap6"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap7"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="4, 1, 57, 13" HREF="opening.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map7"><img src="images/bhome26.jpg" border="0" width="58" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap7"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="2, 3, 55, 12" HREF="Store.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map8"><img src="images/bprod26.jpg" border="0" width="58" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap8"></a><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap9"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="5, 2, 64, 14" HREF="toc.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map9"><img src="images/btoc26.jpg" border="0" width="65" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap9"></a> <MAP NAME="FrontPageMap10"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="4, 3, 57, 14" HREF="SearchB.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/index.htm/map10"><img src="images/bsearch26.jpg" border="0" width="58" height="15" ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap10"></a><br> Copyright Technofilm 1997</p> <p align="left">This nonprofit site is designed and maintained by international academics and theatre professionals who teach or produce Barnes work. <br> April 24, 2000.</p> <p align="center">  </p>  </body>