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How a Les Mis veteran made Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away a West End hit

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It is a gray spring morning in London and on the sidewalk in Covent Garden there is a box containing the head of an old woman. Or rather: parts of it. The head is in pieces because it wouldn’t fit: it’s about eight feet long and even wider, with eyes as big as cauldrons, teeth … Read more

‘Anyone who still works at ENO shows human resilience in an idiotic way’

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Firebrand director David Alden – Andrew Crowley No one looking at the ever-increasing activities of Grange Park Opera would believe that the opera is under threat. The country house season moved to the gardens of the late Bamber Gascoigne’s country house at West Horsley Place in Surrey, when he inherited the estate from his aunt, … Read more