James Jones’s best-selling 1951 novel, which won the US National Book Award, drew on his wartime experience in the Hawaiian army base just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 194 ...
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Tamara Rojo takes her farewell as artistic director of English National Ballet with a triple bill of ballets by three choreographers: American William Forsythe, Belgian Stina Quagebeur and Swedish Mat ...
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Oscar Wilde in an interview just before the premiere in 1895 said that audiences were to expect a delicious bubble of fancy, which had a philosophy and that was that we should treat the trivial things ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard premiered with great success in 1888, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee when the nation was being very patriotic and nostalgic for Ye Olde Engl ...
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