Sophocles’ Oedipus was first performed in Greece in 429 BC. 2,500 years on, it still has the power to shock. Oedipus does not know he has killed his father and marred his mother. The great thing about ...
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Russians, said Chekhov, are the funniest people on earth when they are being serious. He also said his play had turned out not to be a drama but a comedy and in places, even a farce. Often performed, ...
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London’s West End has a new theatre, the beautiful and intimate Soho Place Theatre in Charing Cross Road, just a minute’s walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station. The theatre seats 600 and its sha ...
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When Nora Helmer walked out on her husband and their three children in 1879, slamming the door behind her, the sound reverberated round Europe, bringing Henrik Ibsen instant success and international ...
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