George Bernard Shaw wrote Caesar and Cleopatra in 1898 and modelled it on the then-fashionable pseudo-historical dramas of the day. It was conceived on the grand scale as a spectacular production for ...
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American composer John Adams’ Doctor Atomic dramatises the events which led to the first atom bomb test in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945. The destruction and radioactive debris the bomb would ca ...
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Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which premiered in Stratford in 1912 and then was revised and performed in Vienna in 1916, is an opera-within-an-opera. The libretto is by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. T ...
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Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s, a monologue about a white British working-class man, was seen at the National Theatre in February this year. Rafe Spall gave a BIG and brilliant hysterical performance a ...
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