(Dan Rebellato’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/9.)
No theatrical genre lasts forever. City comedy, commedia dell'arte, mystery cycles, masque, equestrian drama, theatre of the absurd, living newspaper: the history of theatre is studded with the wreckage of once-successful genres that just stopped responding to the times they lived in.
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