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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Paddington Bear is universally loved by children and adults. Michael Bond wrote the first of 27 books in 1958. There have been several television series and three films. Paddington even had tea and a ...
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