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Past productions

The 
Philanthropist

by Christopher Hampton
8 September - 15 October 2005

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England’s most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the university, a bachelor don tries hard to please his academic friends as he anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life.

Written as a response to Moliere’s The Misanthrope and first performed at the Royal Court in 1970, this biting ‘bourgeois comedy’ examines the empty, insular lives of college intellectuals.