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War and cucumber sandwiches: Iconic stage and screen tea parties
The Mad Hatter's Tea party from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Arthur Rackham, 1907 Afternoon tea has long been a favourite event in dramas, when its formalities and rituals can be stood on their...
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Ramin Gray’s production of Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest opens in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 14 June. The opera is exuberant bordering on outrageous, with instrumentation featuring...
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The Importance of Being Barry
Gerald Barry © ROH ‘The music – it’s like being attacked by knives.’ But in a good way: Gerald Barry’s exuberant, ebullient, brilliantly fearsomely monstrous music sounds like nothing else. If, as an...
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Your reaction: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Royal Opera's production of The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 [View the story "Your Reaction: The Importance of Being Earnest" on Storify] What did you think of The...
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Opera Essentials: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Royal Opera's production of The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 The Story Begins… Ernest loves Gwendolen, but he hasn’t told her that his name is really Jack. Jack’s...
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The Importance of Being Earnest to be live-streamed on 2 April 2016
Percussionist Helen Edordu with Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest. © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 Ramin Gray's Royal Opera production of Gerald Barry's The Importance...
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The Importance of Being Earnest Musical Highlight: ‘And this is what you call...
The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH/Stephen Cummisky, 2013 How do you turn a play into an opera? Even worse, how do you do this to one of the most popular plays ever? Perhaps the key is to go your...
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Wilde at heart: the surreal brilliance of Gerald Barry’s The Importance of...
Paul Curievici as John Worthing, Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen and Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 Gerald Barry’s The Importance of...
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Listen: The Importance of Being Earnest – ‘I think it would make other types...
Paul Curievici as John, Benedict Nelson as Algernon, Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell, Claudia Boyle as Cecily and Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, The Royal Opera © 2016...
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