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…for just one published version of his play. "Well, someone's got to make it," he replied. His plays remained popular in England, even though he long ago became unfashionable in America. He put it down to the commercial inde- pendence of nonprofit theaters in England like the National and bitterly regretted that there's no real equivalent system here. "But who gives a goddamn about fashion?" he protested when I men- tioned the subject. "The onl...…

















































