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Paul Brown obituary

The Guardian 27 Nov 2017

Prolific opera and theatre designer renowned for his inventive staging and exquisite costumes. Stage. Paul Brown obituary. Prolific opera and theatre designer renowned for his inventive staging and exquisite costumes ... Paul tore down the hemp and swathed the college theatre in cloth-of-gold, most notably for a staggeringly precocious production of Dryden’s Amphitryon (baroque to his soul, Paul loved nothing better than a deus ex machina)....

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Civic Players freshen up long-time venue

The Daily Gazette 08 Oct 2017

For non-stop, quality entertainment since 1928, nothing can match the record of the Schenectady Civic Playhouse. Yes, Proctors may have opened in 1926, and a year later Schenectady music teacher Etta Moore created what would become the Schenectady Light Opera Company ... I was always into the theater ... Joanne Westervelt got her start in "Amphitryon 38" in 1969, and she's got another big part in this week's season opener, "Fifth of July ." ... ....

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Michael Cordner's production of Dryden comedy Amphitryon is "major departure"

York Press 15 Jun 2017

THE major staff-directed production of the year in the University of York's department of theatre, film and television takes place until Sunday in the black box studio ... ....

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The extreme ones

DNA India 14 May 2017

DRAGON MOM ... To her surprise, the stone turned out to be an egg, from which emerged five baby snakes ... Her husband Amphitryon was exiled for accidentally killing Electryon in his attempts to seek revenge for the death of her brothers ... When Amphitryon was away during battle, Zeus, the Greek ruler of Gods, manifested in from of Alcmene as her husband, Amphitryon, and slept with her ... Heracles, son of Zeus and Iphicles, son of Amphitryon ... ....

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Michael Bogdanov obituary

The Guardian 18 Apr 2017

Theatre ... Twitter ... He combined this schedule with a three-year stint as Intendant (director) of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, succeeding Peter Zadek in 1989 and improving a stuttering reputation at one of Germany’s leading houses, beset by severe cuts in funding, with not only Shakespeare, but Kleist’s Amphitryon, Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, Ibsen’s Pillars of Society, Osborne’s The Entertainer and Schiller’s Mary Stuart....

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Malaysian Fidel

CounterPunch 29 Nov 2016

The word ‘sosia’ takes its name from a character in Plautus’ Latin play, Amphitryon, and is still very much used in Italian today to refer to someone who looks a lot like a celebrity or an important person. Sosias were extremely useful in mythology especially when they ended up tricking husbands and wives into thinking they were sleeping with their actual spouses ... Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007). Even Edward W ... Socialism has its sosias ... ....

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