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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Bloody good fun: turning the story of Tarrare the sideshow freak into an opera by Tom and Tobi Poster

The true story of the French revolutionary soldier was so grotesquely dramatic, we knew it had to be told – with puppetsWhen we first came across the story of Tarrare – a perpetually hun…

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