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Is it possible to love productions you've never seen? Oh baby baby, it is. I'm not just talking about Garrick's Shakespeares, or brightly coloured 19th-century extravaganzas, or the Moscow Arts doing Chekhov for the first time and minting a new voice and a transforming style of acting.
Never before have I dared to suggest that Simon Schama might be – not wrong, but in sore need of an extra footnote. Viewers and readers of his The American Future may recall its fervent praise for the "Statute of Religious Freedom" that Thomas Jefferson drafted for the state of Virginia in 1779. This trumpet-call for liberty of conscience was, Schama enthused, "arguably the greatest and ...
IT STARTED as a magician’s trick with one white rabbit – now Steve and Claire Lucock share their home with 74 pets.
As a return to sporting roots, Australia versus the Barbarians at Wembley tomorrow barely disturbs the surface – despite being billed as a reprise of the rugby union final at the first London Olympics, 100 years ago.
It's rather nerve-racking, interviewing an acknowledged master of the English language. I tell Henry Hitchings that I feel as though I'll have to take extra care with my choice of words. "Don't," he says briskly, as he ushers me into his book-lined 13th-floor Bermondsey flat. Fortunately, his attitude to language is anything but stuffy, snobbish or prescriptive.
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2009 just-released playbill keeps the event's focus on producing The Bard's works, along with other classical works and a handful of new productions.
IT MAY be best known for its Italianate character and design, but the Welsh village of Portmeirion has been named as one of the most “authentic” places on earth to visit.
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