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Lyttelton, LondonWH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic bag. A floor above him, Benjamin Britten, sleek as a whippet, is at the piano, with poker back and (Read More)
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Royal Court, London SW1, Pit, Barbican, London EC2Staged in the round, circular in motion, concentrated on the smallest of spaces. Cock (good title) is one of the most distinguished pieces of theatre to hit the London stage in the past year. Mike Bartlett's play, which involves a young man torn between his long-term male pa (Read More)
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Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a penance, think again: this is an exhilarating pleasure. Director Ivo van Hove gleefully reinvents th (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
 On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no notices in the papers, although the word of mouth was not particularly good and the amateurs on the in (Read More)
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Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, when she was well into h (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
It was not boredom but anger that tempted me to leave a play in mid-show – but I lacked the courageIn the middle decades of the 20th century, when theatre was testing the limits of taste, an off-stage sound-effect was regularly heard in the auditorium: the rat-a-tat of seat-backs clacking as scandalised theatregoers walked (Read More)
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BFI Southbank to exhibit paintings and sketches of 'Freudian ballet' created for the film by Hein HeckrothThe Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, is one of the most visually spectacular movies in British history, and an abiding inspiration for artists such as Martin Scorsese, who counts it among his favour (Read More)
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It's been labelled derisory and unperformable, Monty Python lampooned it, even its fans admit it's ridiculous. But the neglected 1950s musical Salad Days isn't mere escapismOutside, it's overcast and autumn and engineering works on the tube. Inside, it's "sunshine and summer and falling in love". Outside, it's youth unemplo (Read More)
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Will politicians' words on poverty and inequality be matched by deeds? London Citizens is one group trying to make it happenIn an audacious raid into Labour's home territory, David Cameron says both parties should be judged by the effect their policies have on the poorest in society. His conference speech and the Hugo Young (Read More)
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Royal Court, LondonYou may, according to taste, find the title a come-on or a turn-off. But, far from being a sensational shocker, Mike Bartlett's play is a sharp, witty study of a man helplessly torn between his longtime male partner and a loving woman. Bartlett's theme, in fact, is less tortured bisexuality than the paral (Read More)
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The National Theatre has confirmed the initial details of its £50 million plan to modernise its Grade II-listed London home.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Alan Bennett's device of a play-within-a-play has its origins in the IliadOne of the most notable formal features of Alan Bennett's new play for the National Theatre, The Habit of Art, is its play-within-a-play. The action is set within a rehearsal room. Here are the actors, the stage manager, the playwright, the musical di (Read More)
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The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare"A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As IÂ read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table. "If ever a (Read More)
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has been re-admitted to hospital after developing a "chronic infection" following surgery for prostate cancer.A statement on the composer's website said that although the operation was a success, the infection needs immediate treatment.His spokesmen said last month that the cancer was in its early stages (Read More)
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Lyttelton, LondonArtists in their late work often feel free to digress and experiment. Alan Bennett takes full advantage of this licence in a multi-levelled work that deals with sex, death, creativity, biography and much else besides. And, while it may not possess the universal resonance of The History Boys, the play has th (Read More)
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