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JG Ballard's New Vision of America

Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel

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Swashbucklers: Defending Honour with Rapiers and Wit

The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour

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British Theatre on a Winning Streak in New York

Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York

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Finalists line up in The Comptition

Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest

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Barnum – a Musical Life of the Great Showman

"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum

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The enduring Appeal of Fairies and the Uncanny

Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales

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Theater der Welt '81 in Cologne

International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81

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Edward Bond's new view of two Worlds

Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.

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The Shoemaker's Holiday and the spirit of London

Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker

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For Your Eyes Only – Bond Returns

The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers

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Mrinal Sen's And Quiet Rolls the Dawn

Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen

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David Hockney on 'the Pleasure of Looking'

David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery

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Weaving as a very Contemporary Art

Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art

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Time to reappraise Troilus and Cressida?

Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed

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Eastward Ho! Towards a new London?

The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline

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Amadeus re-conquers the London stage

Peter Schaffer's Amadeus has not only been around the world but to Broadway – and back

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Here and There – Photographs from UK and California

Cool documentary-style photos hang next to wild experimental colour

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The Gospel of St Mark, according to Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen turns a two-hour Bible reading into a gripping one-man show

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English concert at Leeds Castle – in Kent

Handel sonatas in historic buildings by English Heritage

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The revolutionary Georg Buchner on the French Revolution

Howard Brenton on the life and work of Georg Buchner

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The Young Romantics

A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank

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Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?

Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play

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The Vietnam War in Hampstead

Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story

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Shona Spirit, Zimbabwean Sculpture

Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London

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Celebrating the Arts of Wales

The painters and poets of Wales, and the thrilling sounds of the Royal National Eisteddfod

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Jonathan Miller's two Othellos

Director Jonathan Miller's two Othellos – Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera

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Brazilian Hero's Quest comes to the London Stage

Brazilian epic is brought to life in London, and Mozart's "lost" symphony is rediscovered

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The Dance Theatre of Harlem energises the Royal Opera House

Director Arthur Mitchell's new repertoire makes the most of Covent Garden's large stage

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Cecil B. DeMille – a Director of Epic Proportions

Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago

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Love and Death – on Stage and Page

Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week

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