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...He would never have gone incognito to mix with ordinary people, as Peter the Great or Akbar did. Other emperors were surrounded by mystery and remote from their subjects....
...The film trilogy of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by the director Peter Jackson in the early 2000s was a turning point....
...Peter Hall wrote the book — well, the chapter — on how to direct Harold Pinter. Lindsay Anderson was David Storey’s go-to man; John Dexter, Arnold Wesker’s....
...Surely, Peter Morgan must now be wondering about the potential for a fly-on-the-wall-style account of the crucifixion of Tsipras, as the talks were described by a senior eurozone official....
...Charlie Chaplin, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/ Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 In this fine short life, Ackroyd underlines the link between Chaplin’s boyhood sufferings and his success....
...Critic Peter Craven complained that “Benedict Andrews is my nightmare of what director’s theatre can come to.” Does such negative reaction worry him?...
...$39.95 Lahr’s definitive biography of the great American playwright may be a little lacking in its coverage of Williams’ formative years but it magnificently recounts his stage successes, work with Elia Kazan...
...Built as a home for elderly women in 1681-83, it may have been a landmark familiar to Peter the Great, founder of St Petersburg, who arrived in Amsterdam in 1697 to study boatbuilding....
...With the Royal Court’s The Seagull, at the Walter Kerr, nine of the original thirteen remain, and while newcomer Zoe Kazan makes a mordant, melancholy Masha, Peter Sarsgaard’s novelist Trigorin casts a hangdog...
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...At the same time, Russia’s Christian and European identity has been indelibly marked by the presence on its territory, from the 1552 annexation of the khanate of Kazan, of a vast and varied world of non-Slav...
...Not the director Ridley Scott, who meets his Gladiator star again in a Peter Mayle adaptation set in – surprise! – Provence....
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