Sunsets and Glories

Sunsets and Glories is a play by noted playwright and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Peter Barnes. The play is based on the brief reign of Pope Celestine V. First directed by Stuart Burge who had directed Barnes' Ruling Class at the Nottingham Playhouse 22 years earlier, and starring Freddie Jones as Pope Celestine V, Sunsets and Glories premiered at the 1990 opening of the new West Yorkshire Playhouse on the Quarry Hill site, Leeds, UK.