Quartet
Ronald Harwood’s play about four elderly opera singers living in a home for retired musicians first saw the light of day in 1999, but it was not until 2012 that most people, myself included, came to know it through a film version that starred Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. The film featured many more characters, too, whereas the stage version is a four-hander – just one of the meanings of its title, the other being a reference to the quartet from Rigoletto that will be sung as part of the home’s annual concert to celebrate Verdi’s
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