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Theatre

Brief Encounter (Lyric) Conversations After A Burial (Almeida) My Zinc Bed (Royal Court) The Car Man (Old Vic) Cerebral surgery Sheridan Morley A t the Royal Court, David Hare's......

Exhibitions

Tai-Shan Schierenberg (Flowers East, 199/205 Richmond Road, London E8, till 14 October) The thing itself Laura Gascoigne A t the London Contemporary Art Fair three years ago, a......

Opera

Queen of Spades (Welsh National Opera) Tosca (Royal Opera) Obsessive passions Michael Tanner W elsh National Opera's new produc- tion of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades makes......