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Boris and Karloff fail to spark; KARL MARX'S BEARD THE ARCHES, GLASGOW, RUN ENDED AT TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 25-27 2/ 5

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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20041121
Author:Andrew Burnet

Our world is now blighted by growing tension between extremist factions of Christianity and Islam - both hideous distortions of the faiths they claim to represent. So it's salutory to remember that, half a century ago, the planet was similarly divided between two mutually antagonistic creeds, albeit secular ones.

Whether the topicality is conscious or not, this new satire by Polish-Scot Raymond Raszkowski Ross explores the spiritual vacuum that results when a fervently held ideology gives way to dogma. Its setting is one of the Soviet Union's notorious psychiatric hospitals - effectively ...

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