• You may confer: test your knowledge of literature, music and art – Christmas quiz

    What food did Samuel Pepys bury in his backyard? Which dystopian novelist had a ‘hopeless’ love affair with cricket? And how many words did Enid Blyton write per day? Try your hand at our Christmas quiz“There is no such passion in human nature as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.” In which classic book does this confident assertion appear?Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles DickensThe Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinAnna of the Five Towns by A
  • In Toronto Plays Are Getting Much Shorter

    In Toronto Plays Are Getting Much Shorter
    Plays running at 70 or 80 minutes are, according to Company Theatre’s co-artistic director Philip Riccio, “a newer phenomenon,” perhaps connected to the fact that “most of our playwrights come up through the Fringe festivals”; the majority of Fringe shows need to come in at under an hour.

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