... Theatre and a surprise was yet forthcoming.
I had set my heart at rest about the possibility of watching an opera performance in Russia, partly because August is the closing month for most theatres ...
... cultural centre cum theatre which rose from a waste platform of concrete slabs.
After the last days of intense activity I was feeling as exhausted as that wrecked urban landscape, but the delightful ...
... and the nice geometry of the circus dome opposite. Between the two there was a permanent market under canopied stalls. I passed the big theatre and entered a vast square dominated by the unavoidable statue ...
I was staring at the theatre built in dark red bricks with a high-contrast adornment of white window trims and gables. The air was hot and dry, the sun glared high in a clear blue sky, a perfect continental ...
... year to the town of Rossosh, which was the theatre of the epic battle of Nikolayevka in January 1943. In the harsh continental winter, the Red Army, which had already succeeded in pushing back the invaders, ...
... for a little longer than was required by good manners, and I quickly concluded that she must consider me the coarse one.
In the evening performances take place nearly every day in the theatre, but they ...
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I woke up late after a wriggly night and left the bag at the hotel. Zunyi is famous for being the theatre of a conference that marked the rise of Mao Zedong in the Communist leadership at the time of ...
... made a spectacular setting in itself. In fact, the waterfall was reduced to a meagre trickle, but the grand sandstone amphitheatre was a sight in its own right. More surprising still were the trails that ...
... and brought the man down to my own dimension as someone following practical pursuits.
Archaeology
The Roman stadion under the mosque square and the Roman theatre are beautiful examples of yet another ...
... I’m seized by a similar sort of wonder that is produced by the sudden change of theatre scenes, only this time it’s a natural and slow change over an immense jaw-dropping landscape that unites stunning ...