Play Furor Exposes Deep Rifts in Britain
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In the few days since a drama company in the Midlands canceled the run of a contentious play in the face of violent religious protests, British theater has been grappling with
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A growing rift between Russia and Britain over the London murder of a former Russian agent prompted warnings Thursday of a full scale diplomatic conflict, complete with tit-for-tat expulsions.
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Rajiv Josephâs new play, about the overthrow of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan by the military in 1977, is so timely that daily headlines have made sick jokes of some of its lines.
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LONDON: In an unprecedented and unexpected showdown between Britain&#39;s powerful and networked artistic communty, a leading British theatre company has told TOI it blames sections of the country&#39;s unruly and violent Sikh community for &quot;opening the door&quot; to
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A second Birmingham theatre company could stage a controversial play that was dropped following protests by members of the Sikh community. Send us your reaction.
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In a country enraged by Tony Blair's  decision to join America in invading Iraq, nothing fills a  theater faster than a play about George W. Bush.
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Millions of Britons have a guilty secret. They are spending their spare hours immersed in an underground world of LA gangs and gun-ridden ghettos.
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Hundreds of figures from the British arts united Thursday to condemn the cancellation of a controversial Sikh play as an affront to freedom of expression.
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WE&#39;VE had Robbie Savage&#39;s rant and talk of a players&#39; mutiny over John Toshack. We&#39;ve heard about a north-south split on the FAW.
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Author Salman Rushdie has expressed horror at the Governmentâs response to a mini-riot by Sikhs which forced a controversial play to be abandoned.
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IT IS one of the oldest complaints in the book. While Britain plays scrupulously by the rules in Europe, everyone else is nakedly looking after their own national self-interest.
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A war of words over two British cultural centres in Russia heated up Tuesday with Moscow accusing Britain of "colonial" nostalgia after it refused orders to shut the offices.
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LONDON -- David Beckham lurches from one crisis to another, and is being ridiculed by British newspapers as an attention-seeking drama queen.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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A British theatre that's staging a play that has the country's large Sikh community up in arms denied that it was "insensitive," as police sought to avert a repeat of a mini-riot that broke out during the show two days ago.
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LONDON: The British minister under investigation for allegedly fast-tracking a visa for a former lover's nanny was at the centre of a new political storm yesterday over slurs on his government colleagues.
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In a country enraged by Tony Blair's decision to join America in invading Iraq, nothing fills a theater faster than a play about George W. Bush.