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Article: Culture: Happiness in 3D; Eat your heart out West End and Broadway, says Sid Langley. Birmingham Rep is staging the finest show on the planet at the moment with Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests. Comedy this good has to be taken seriously.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2004
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Byline: Sid Langley
I vaguely recall some Very Important Book (the sort everyone is supposed to know about but no one reads) having a Very Famous Opening. You know, the sort of thing that comes up as a starter question on University Challenge. It's something about all happy families resembling one another, but each unhappy family being unhappy in its own way. It could be Anne of Green Gables, now I come to think of it.
I mention it not to add any cheap literary credibility to this piece (although I'd give it a go if I thought it would work) but as a bit of ...
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