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Faust And Furious

TAKE a girl like Cleo- patra, throw in Apollo, a few dozen nymphs with- out their attendant shep- herds, stir rapidly with an equal number of fauns, add a nameless gladiator and......

National Shopkeeping

By DAVID PRYCE-JONES Hobson's Choice.(National Theatre.)—The Life in My Hands. (Nottingham Playhouse.)—The Wars of the Roses. (Aldwych.) —Poor Bitos. (Duke of York's.) WRITTEN......

Billy Budd

By HANS KELLER Comparisons between revisions and originals are always difficult, and never mind about masterpieces: so long as the different versions are a master's pieces, the......