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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Robert Tanitch’s Round-up of Books No 4 (2020) A SHAKESPEARE MOTLEY (Thames & Hudson) is an illustrated assortment taken from the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. A cute, charming and ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
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