Written by Patrick Garland First performance 1967 Original language English language | Date premiered 1967 Playwright Patrick Garland Adapted from Brief Lives | |
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Brief Lives is a British play about John Aubrey, a 17th-century Englishman who met and kept accounts of many of the famous men of his day, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Wren. It premiered in 1967 and became one of the most successful one person shows in history. Roy Dotrice played Aubrey in many productions.
The play came out of an episode about Aubrey in Famous Gossips (1965), the BBC television series Garland made with Alan Bennett.
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