biography
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Whiting, John (Robert)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917–63)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, becoming an actor before emerging as a playwright, with such early plays as Saint's Day (1951) and A Penny for a Song (1956). His best-known work was The Devils (1961), a dramatization of Huxley's The Devils of Loudon, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, which achieved great success, despite (or because of) its harrowing torture scenes. |
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