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Review of ‘Archduke’: “Regicidal comedy doesn’t seize the crown”
Someone’s plotting murder on the Royal Court stage this month. And someone has got away with it. So far, nobody’s been killed. But something has — repeatedly. Those who have sat through this tongue-in-cheek political drama dealing with the assassination of Austrian royalty, Franz Ferdinand, might have already guessed what I’m talking about. And chances…
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Review of ‘1536’: “Anne Boleyn-themed drama needs some reformation”
“This is England, woman”. A simple line unloads all the ominous weight of a dire age — and a most dangerous situation. What once was a harmless, playful act has become a death sentence. Yes, this England. 16th-century England. And the social dynamics among men and women, nobles and peasants, and virtually anyone abided by…
