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'A thoroughly entertaining failure': the return of Muriel Spark's mega flop by Charlotte Higgins

Her savage send-up of the London intelligentsia was a box-office disaster. But could Doctors of Philosophy now be about to hit its prime?On Tuesday 2 October 1962, a play by Muriel Spark was premiered at the New Arts Theatre Club in London. It was called Doctors of Philosophy and its cast included Fenella Fielding and Kathleen Breck. In fact, the play has six central parts for women; the remaining three characters ar…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM on August 8, 2018

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