Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals was first performed 250 years ago in 1775 and was a disaster. The script was then rewritten within eleven days and the comedy, which gently mocks sentimentality, ...
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The Orange Tree Theatre, under the artistic direction of Tom Littler, continues to thrive, catering for serious theatregoers who want to see classic plays regularly revived. August Strindberg (1849-19 ...
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Ben is Benjamin Britten, the famed composer of Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. Imo is Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst, music teacher, composer and musical assistant. Mark Ravenhill explores their ...
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Oliver Cromwell and his highly Puritan government closed theatres in 1642 and they remained closed for 18 years. Yes, 18 years. Had I been alive then, how would I have survived? April de Angelis’s Pla ...
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