Class Enemy (play) Class Enemy (play) Class Enemy is a 1978 play by the British playwright Nigel Williams which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. Class Enemy was written in 1978 as a social commentary on the apathy and anarchy in inner city British schools, is adapted to the new European reality at the beginning of the 21st century. The set is a bleak classroom with broken tables and chairs, dirty blackboard and lit with sterile fluorescent lamps. The play starts with six students waiting for a teacher and, like Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, they seem to wait in vain. What the
Frances Beckett the Model Niland collection in Sligo. Another work, a portrait of Israel Leventon is at the Irish Jewish Museum. Beckett, who was called Cissie, married an antique dealer called William 'the Boss' Sinclair. They lived in Howth and had several children one of whom, Ruth Margaret (1911-33), known as Peggy, was one of two women who are both identified as having been Samuel Beckett's 'first love', the other being poet and medical doctor Ethna McCarthy. In the early 1920s the Sinclairs went to live in Germany, where they were often visited by Samuel Beckett. Cissie is said to have fostered