Caesar and Cleopatra

The collection includes three plays of Bernard Show, revealing different faces of his dramatic talent. Caesar and Cleopatra is an absolute masterpiece of his creative heritage, a merciless historical satire on eternal topics of politicians, war and the struggle for power. In 1945, director Gabriel Pascal shot a film, the main roles in which was played by Vivien Lee Rhin"s.
“Another Island of John Bull” - an example of a drama of ideas - is dedicated to the problem of relations between England and Ireland, which the show, being the Irish , always took to heart. The premiere passed with a deafening success-the prime minister even visited the performance, and a special performance was ordered for King Edward VII. Above the meaninglessness of the bureaucratic machine and the absurdity of the intrigues of those in power