Word: cockshott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first season but has been making modest profits ever since. Flusser has more than tripled the original $65-a-week salaries of the six young members of the troupe. After Dinner has been successful because it staged sprightly productions of such new works as British Composer Gerald Cockshott's Apollo and Persephone, Marc Blitzstein's Triple Sec. The troupe scored a critical success in an appearance at Edinburgh last year (TIME, Sept. 10), is currently preparing to open at Manhattan's off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre with the first U.S. performance of Offenbach...
...operatic spoof called Apollo and Persephone, staged by the adventurous After Dinner Opera Company. Gayest of the week's premieres, it was written and composed by 40-year-old English Composer Gerald Cockshott (pronounced kosher), who originally dreamed up his libretto for his mentor, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but liked it so much that he set it to music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked...