This Was A Man

Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London
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This event ended on Saturday 2nd of August 2014
Admission
From 15-20 July: £16, £14 concessions, except Tuesday evenings £14 all seats, and Friday and Saturday evenings £16 all seats.
Previews (15 and 16 July): £12 all seats.
£10 tickets for children
Location

Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
West Brompton 0.27 miles

Almost 90 years after Noel Coward's controversial play 'This Was A Man' was written, acclaimed actress and director Belinda Lang has brought together an accomplished cast to perform the first UK production.

Edward Churt is a successful painter. His wife Carol has a "vivid personality composed of a minimum of intellect and a maximum of sex". Increasingly aware of her infidelity, Edward defends himself with a veneer of sophisticated insouciance. But his best friend and army comrade is determined to avenge him...

This Was A Man explores some of Coward’s lifelong and enduring themes of social mores, jealousy and the futility of a life with no moral compass. Can good manners emasculate us? What happens when we repress our inner caveman? Is it more courageous to look away or to face our demons and fight? What, indeed, does it mean to be a "man"? 
Written in 1925 and immediately banned by the censor, This Was A Man opened on Broadway in 1926, and was subsequently produced across Europe, but has never been seen professionally in the UK until now.

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