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The Philadelphia Story
2014
single work
drama
'Tracy Samantha Lord Haven is rich and smart and famous and she is getting married to George Kittredge. C.K. Dexter Haven is her ex-husband and he has invited himself to the wedding. Macaulay Corner is the joumalist C.K. Dexter Haven has brought with him to document the nuptial lead-up. As it's a comedy you can be sure it ends with a wedding ... but who will Tracy Samantha Lord Haven marry?
'The Philadelphia Story is a first-class screwball-type midsummer night's pre-marital freakout comedy. Its dialogue simmers with winks and nods and verbal parries, its characters are fabulous, its plot is a lesson in the craft, and the cast and creatives of this production are going to have a ball. Join them.
'Simon Stone and co turn a radical new lens on this effervescent Hollywood classic about love and celebrity and love and f**cking up in public and love and excess with some extra love thrown in for good measure.'
Source: Belvoir.
Notes
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The Philadelphia Story is included in AustLit because of Australian-written adaptations.