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Never So Good (Paperback)
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Never So Good (Paperback)
Series: NHB Modern Plays
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A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about
the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth
century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez
crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at
the Ritz, Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty
but complex man, at times comically and, in the end, tragically out
of kilter with his times. Harold Macmillan, the Eton-educated
idealist who rushed, with Homer's Iliad under his arm, to do his
duty in the Grenadier Guards, is tormented by the harsh experiences
of war and an unhappy marriage. His career in the 1930s is blocked
by his loyalty to Winston Churchill, and he nearly loses his life
in the Second World War. When at last he becomes Prime Minister he
is brought down by the Profumo scandal. Howard Brenton's Never So
Good was first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the
National Theatre in March 2008, directed by Howard Davies and
starring Jeremy Irons as Macmillan.
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