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Theatre

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Open Air, Regent's Park) Last Dance at Dum Dum (New Ambassadors) Home Body/Kabul (Chelsea Centre) Roman follies Sheridan Morley......

Opera

Smetana's diversions Michael Tanner S metana is so loveable and stirring a fig- ure in the history of music, and especially of opera, that I wish I could enjoy his most famous......