Michael Billington on what TS Eliot's complex plays did for the theatre Beethoven As I Knew Him, From Mamet to Monty Python: Two verse-dramatists on what Eliot taught them Is there a dramatist currently less fashionable than TS Eliot? The verse-drama revival he so ardently championed bit the dust. His high Anglicanism is now a minority taste. Even the drawing-room settings he used as a spiritual battleground seem redolent of a lost world. The ultimate irony is that Eliot achieved the theatri.

Michael Billington on what TS Eliot's complex plays did for the theatre Tickets.From Mamet to Monty Python: Two verse-dramatists on what Eliot taught them Is there a dramatist currently less fashionable than TS Eliot? The verse-drama revival he so ardently championed bit the dust. His high Anglicanism is now a minority taste. Even the drawing-room settings he used as a spiritual battleground seem redolent of a lost world. The ultimate irony is that Eliot achieved the theatri.