VAN KAMPEN'S witty and touching play, Farinelli And The King is an exploration of royal role-play, courtly intrigue and attitudes to insanity that is quite the equal of Alan Bennett’s study of another mad eighteenth century monarch, George III
Saturday 28 February 2015
Farinelli And The King, Beautiful and The Nether Theatre round-up
VAN KAMPEN'S witty and touching play, Farinelli And The King is an exploration of royal role-play, courtly intrigue and attitudes to insanity that is quite the equal of Alan Bennett’s study of another mad eighteenth century monarch, George III
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