The Mint Theatre in New York stages plays by neglected playwrights and its track record is amazing. There have been revivals of plays by D H Lawrence, J B Priestley, John Van Druten, Allan Monkhouse, ...
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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (BBC iPlayer). Christopher Hampton’s play was filmed in 1998 with an excellent cast. Laclos’s novel, published in Paris in 1782, caused a great scandal and sold out within a f ...
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NAPOLEON’S PLUNDER AND THE THEFT OF VERONESE’S FEAST by Cynthia Saltzman (Thames & Hudson). Napoleon transformed a former palace of French kings into the greatest museum in the world by looting on ...
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THE MAURITANIAN (STXfilms) is a legal thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald which describes what went on in Gutanemo Bay in Cuba. Mohamedou Ould Slahi (played by Tamar Rahim) is imprisoned and tortured ...
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