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A disastrous opening night
Simon Callow describes the calamitous premiere of Orson Welles' play 'Moby Dick - Rehearsed' in London in 1955. The actor was reading from One-Man Band, the third volume of his biography of Welles, at Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016—麻豆社 at the Edinburgh Festivals, 2016
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