The Cocktail Party won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play on Broadway and The Confidential Clerk ran for almost a year in the West End. Only The Elder Statesman flopped, and yet, in the years since his death, in 1965, [TS] Eliot's dramatic oeuvre subsequent to Murder in the Cathedral has been tarred with the brush of failure. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats may have inadvertently given the world one of its most successful musicals (Cats), but otherwise Eliot is the forgotten man of British theatre.
from Telegraph: TS Eliot festival at Donmar Warehouse brings back poet from the waste land
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