And we'd already have achieved it if everyone was as enlightened as me
If this spring were not this spring, I would have noticed sooner that today is Denholm Elliott's centenary and done something about it, but instead I coincidentally read the script of a play in which he originated a part—I had been looking for it for some time, having come to despair of ever seeing a production—and that will have to do. Have the cast of Twelfth Night of Stalag VIII-B, Elliott's Viola at center.



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I'm so glad there are even photographs.
(But if I can survive the experience, it's on the time machine list. I'll pick you up on the way.)
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You want to worry about profiles first or genders?
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Everything about it!
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For that matter, where did they get the food? It takes calories to sustain a five-act play.
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From the opera house in then-Breslau, according to Michael Dobson's Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History (2011)! Chocolate and cigarettes were clearly the least of the tributes of an appreciative audience.
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I wish I could have seen his Viola. I bet she was spectacular.
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The plan is to review something in his belated honor this month!
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That is n-v-t-s nuts.
(Why is there no movie?)