Peter Barnes (playwright)
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Peter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His best known work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
Photo of Barnes by Denis Thorpe
The Ruling Class (play)
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The Ruling Class is a 1968 British play by Peter Barnes. The black comedy centres on Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney and the attempts to cure him of insanity.
Poster depicting the Lady of the Camellias, Lord Gurney's imagined wife.
The Nottingham Playhouse, pictured in 1967.