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THEATRE REVIEW: Richard Bean’s ‘The Big Fellah’

By Ray Bennett LONDON – One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, the old saying goes, and Richard Bean attempts to come to grips with the paradox in his alternately funny and savage drama “The Big Fellah,” about Irish … Continue reading

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THEATRE REVIEW: David Hare’s ‘The Permanent Way’

By Ray Bennett LONDON – When successive Conservative governments under Margaret Thatcher and John Major sold off most of the nationalised British rail system to private industry, former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan described it as “selling off the family … Continue reading

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