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Mixed Messages

Patrick Camegy Tamar's Revenge Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon T his is the second of the four plays in the RSC's season of plays by Shakespeare's Spanish close contemporaries......

Military Triumph

Giannandrea Poesio The Soldier's Tale Linbuty Studio, Royal Opera House I gor Stravinsky referred to his 1918 work The Soldier's Tale suitably as tha Ire ambulant. This......

Reality Check

James Delingpole T he longer I do this job the more I realise how much I loathe television. Not all television ever — just the cheap, ugly, cynical, vacuous thing it has become......