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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20030714
Author:Joyce McMillan

FOR Edinburgh International Festival Director Brian McMaster, it all began in the spring of 1977, when Peter Stein's legendary production of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk made a brief nine-day appearance at the National Theatre in London, as the first foreign language production ever seen there. At that time, Peter Stein was just 40, and had already been director of the Schaubuhne Theatre in Berlin for five years, building a formidable reputation as one of the most thrilling directors in Europe. But nothing had prepared McMaster - who had just taken on a new job at Welsh National Opera - for the ...

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