ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Not Such Quiet Girls
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
BLOODIED fur coats, faulty truck engines and flea-ridden mattresses in sodden khaki tents are the gritty physical context of this moving new opera about four young women ambulance drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in WW1.
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