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GENEVA ENGLISH DRAMA SOCIETYPLAYREADING THE SKIN GAME, by John Galsworthy 3 April 2007 t Galsworthy wrote a great deal more than just the world-famous Forsyte Saga, the marvellous roman fleuve that won him the Nobel Prize in 1932. He also wrote powerful, commercially successful dramas of social conscience. "Strife" exposed the evils - on both sides - of industrial dispute. "Justice" helped Winston Churchill to ram through prison reform. "The Skin Game" (slang for bare-knuckle fighting) has enjoyed successful recent revival, because it's about the murderous passion for property our greedy Norman ancestors cursed us with. It tells what happens when a comfortable country gentleman sells a few acres to one of the newly-rich industrial class created by World War 1 - a new war, fought in microcosm, that involves everybody, young and old, rich and poor, in escalating conflict. He builds it steadily, with the same quiet power that pervades his novels, to a moving and shocking climax. |
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