Minna von Barnhelm A comedy by GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING translated by KENNETH J. NORTHCOTT with Sarah Badel Julian Glover Julie Hallam and Sion Probert
Minna is one of the few great German comedies written before the 20th century. Lessing himself said of comedy, ' When we have noticed what is laughable, in spite of all its possible disguises, then we shall know how to avoid being ridiculous. ourselves, and this is the ultimate aim of comedy.'
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
not have been bettered on any medium at any time, and in Lessing's day would have had all the courts of Europe at her feet.
(THE LISTENER: 23 May 1974)