The Unknown Soldier and His Wife

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The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
Written by Peter Ustinov
Date premiered 1967
Subject war

The Unknown Soldier and His Wife is a 1967 play by Peter Ustinov. [1] The play opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on July 6, 1967, after being previewed the week before. [2] [3] The play's initial run of 148 performances was directed by John Dexter and had its scenery and costumes designed by the Motley Theatre Design Group. [4]

Vivian Beaumont Theater theater in New York City, part of Lincoln Center

The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a Broadway theater located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex at 150 West 65th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It is New York City's only Broadway-class theater that is not located in the Theater District near Times Square. The building was one of the last structures designed by Finnish-born mid-century architect Eero Saarinen, and is currently the home of Lincoln Center Theater.

John Dexter was an English theatre, opera and film director.

Motley was the name of the theatre design firm made up of three English designers: sisters Margaret Harris, known as "Percy" (1904–2000), Sophie Harris (1900–1966), and Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot (1902–1993).

The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway .

William Goldman American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

William Goldman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to screenwriting. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976).

<i>The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway</i> book by William Goldman

The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway is an account of the 1967–68 season on and off Broadway by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. It was originally published in 1969 and is considered one of the best books ever written on American theater. In The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called the book “Very nearly perfect. ... It is a loose-limbed, gossipy, insider, savvy, nuts-and-bolts report on the annual search for the winning numbers that is now big-time American commercial theatre.”

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