{"id":3811,"date":"2007-06-06T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2010-04-20T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:42:33","slug":"book-report-dirty-linen-by-tom-stoppard-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/book-report-dirty-linen-by-tom-stoppard-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Dirty Linen by Tom Stoppard (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this was a funnier play in 1976 in London.  Maybe it was written specifically to get <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luan_Peters\" target=\"_new\">Luan Peters<\/a> into lingerie onstage.  But it&#8217;s about dalliances of Members of Parliament that are threatening to diminish the public&#8217;s respect for them and a select committee designed to deal with it.  Except all the members of the committee have dallied with the clerk who&#8217;s supposed to take notes for them.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interlude that&#8217;s called a second play (<i>New-Found-Land<\/i>) designed to shout out to a London theatre luminary at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, to British and sort of dated.  Which is why I wouldn&#8217;t expect to see it as is onstage any time soon.  But no doubt someone in America would be able to adapt the theme and ride Stoppard&#8217;s name for a production of it.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=039441179X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this was a funnier play in 1976 in London. Maybe it was written specifically to get Luan Peters into lingerie onstage. But it&#8217;s about dalliances of Members of Parliament that are threatening to diminish the public&#8217;s respect for them and a select committee designed to deal with it. Except all the members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6016,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}