One of the most popular theatrical bad taste jokes is about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by actor John Wilkes Booth which took place at Ford Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865 when Lincoln ...
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals was first performed 250 years ago in 1775 and was a disaster. The script was then rewritten within eleven days and the comedy, which gently mocks sentimentality, ...
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Ever popular at Christmastime (and as a GCSE text) is the thoroughly uplifting, so, so familiar story of greedy, grasping, cold-hearted Scrooge and his sudden, spirited overnight transformation into t ...
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When Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels was first staged a hundred years ago in 1925, the critics dismissed it as vulgar, disgusting, shocking, nauseating, vile, obscene and degenerate, an insult to Br ...
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