Jean Racine (1639-1699) the great French playwright, the leading tragic dramatist of his day, is rarely performed In England. Britannicus premiered in Paris in 1669. I have seen two excellent producti ...
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If you have not read the novel, a modern Mexican classic, by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel, nor seen the 1992 Mexican film directed by Alfonso Arau, you will definitely need to read the synopsis ...
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The theatre was chockablock with girls; and that’s how it should be. Legally Blonde is a deliberately silly and sentimental girly show about girl-power. Amanda Brown’s novel was made into a film with ...
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Beth Steel’s The House of Shades is a Northumberland working-class, three-generational, kitchen-sink family drama, spanning half a century from 1965 to 2019, and observing the huge political and socia ...
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