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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café ★★★★

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The Ballad of the Cosmo Café ★★★★

Stepping inside Director/Scenographer Pamela Howard’s bustling evocation of the much-loved meeting place that was the Cosmo Café, notably for Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, is to be instantly swept up in its vibrant life. Even before the show begins, Santiago del Fosco’s head waiter…

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Pray, love, remember

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Pray, love, remember

I hope readers will forgive me for subverting the words Ophelia speaks in her strangely lucid madness in Hamlet, for they are not all exhortations. But for me, "pray, love, remember" sums up this month’s season of shared remembrance and special anniversaries. As well as the…