The Nutcracker! has long been a Christmas favourite, the ideal treat for little girls. It was not always so. The premiere in 1892 was badly received by the critics who disapproved of Tchaikovsky wasti ...									
								
								
									
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										Alan Bennett’s comedy, which premiered in 1973 with Alec Guinness in the lead role, is described as “a filthy farce for a less enlightened age” and it is quite unlike anything else he has written. The ...									
								
								
									
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										Willkommen. Bienvenu. Life is a cabaret, old chum. The Playhouse has been transformed into The Kit Kat Club, the Berlin transvestite nightclub, with audiences in the stalls sitting at cafe tables. Sal ...									
								
								
									
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										ABC television in 1968 needs to boost their ratings and decides the best way to do it would be to film a debate between two public intellectuals analysing the politics at the presidential nomination c ...									
								
								
									
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