Stage + Letters
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Brief letters: Granny respect | Alcohol as medicine | Sweet 16 | Theatre intervals | Suella Braverman
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Letters: Comedian David Rose on the perils of audience interaction while doing standup. Plus a letter from Clive Needle
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Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
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Letters: Oliver Kamm, Adrian Blamires and Rik Edwards respond to Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson’s argument that The Merry Wives of Windsor was really penned by Edward de Vere. And Peter Nockolds suggests another Shakespeare theory
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Letter: Patrick Gracey of the Society of London Theatre says media reports that highlight the most expensive tickets of a few hit shows can be misleading
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Letter: And Ben Jonson was invited for a stint at Christ Church, Oxford, in the late 1610s, writes Daniel Blank
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Jane Woddis writes: Edward Bond would sometimes refer to himself as ‘Little Brum’
The comic genius of Maggie Smith