Word: aldwych
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Epic Title. London's Aldwych theater, which is operated by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company of Stratford, is making a name for itself as an outlet for new and experimental plays in repertory. Later this month, they have an item called Victor, or The Children Take Over, by French Playwright Roger Vitrac. The plot calls for a woman to make flatus with noisy regularity, which is accomplished with a backstage tuba...
...Sieg Heil!" For the next night, so that the royal party could see Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in near-perfect security, the Foreign Office had bought up all 1,100 tickets to the Aldwych theater, distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...
...behind him now." . . . Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted...