The Philanthropist

Written as a response to Moliere’s The Misanthrope and first performed at the Royal Court in 1970, this biting ‘bourgeois comedy’ examines the empty , insular lives of college intellectuals.

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England’s most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the university, a bachelor don anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life.