But you can win this splendid cake at the raffle to be held at the Amicale femmes’ Brocante. Tickets are only €1, and can be bought on the day (Saturday 2 June).

What does this have to do with Tagora? Very little, except that three hard-working members of the Tagora committee are also helping out at this charity event. So if you’re free on 2 June, please go along and support them.

Jubilee Celebration Cake flyer (PDF)

In The Anniversary (also known in English as The Jubilee), the plans to celebrate the anniversary of a bank meet with unexpected obstacles.

Cast: two men, two women and some supporting roles.

All are welcome, either to join in or just listen. See the calendar on the right for time and place.

Tagora won the award last year for best stage presentation. This year we are not in competition, but a number of people are making the trip from Strasbourg to enjoy the atmosphere.

If you fancy joining them, see how to book tickets and hotel accommodation on the FEATS 2012 Web site.

Download the flyer

Yasmina Reza’s play (in English translation) will be produced by Tagora in December this year. Casting is now in progress, and the director, Pelin Iscan, is looking for actors. The cast consists of three men, so as far as stage roles are concerned the ladies are out of luck this time round – although there will be plenty of opportunities to get involved in other ways.

Come along and help Pelin choose her men. See the calendar entry in the right-hand column for time and place.

Also of interest: this article from the Independent (British newspaper), which examines the difference between the British and French attitudes to Reza’s work.

Also: “vintage” pictures by Martyn Symons and more,

All performances are sold out.

In the circumstances, tickets will not be available on the door.
(Nous affichons complet. Aucun billet ne sera vendu à l’entrée.)

Feel free to make appropriate use of it or to circulate the link to the page containing it.

Photos should be credited to David-Michel Muller.

• Summary (English, text only)

• Résumé (français, texte brut)

• Flyer: PDF, 2Mb

• Poster: PDF, 3½Mb • PNG, 8Mb

• Photo (larger view of the “Dance of death”, above), 21cm wide at 300 dpi: JPEG, 2Mb • TIFF, 8Mb

• Photo gallery – pictures of the cast in rehearsal

• Tagora logo in print quality: PNG or PDF format

• Information about Tagora

Tickets may be booked here.

For further information, contact Tagora.

Not just by one digit: it’s a completely wrong number, and we can only apologise to those who are inconvenienced.

Advance bookings are available only through this Web site. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door; if we sell out, we shall announce it here.

Click to book at the Tagora box office.

The famous recruitment poster featuring Lord Kitchener inspired many imitations

The show has its origins in a BBC radio programme from the early 1960s.

The Theatre Royal in Stratford East, where Oh, What a Lovely War! was first staged, will host Nigeria’s Olympic House during the 2012 games.

The cast of the New York stage version included Barbara Windsor, now known to millions as one of the regulars of the TV soap EastEnders.

Lord Kitchener, whose pointing figure appears in the famous recruiting poster (left), was appointed Secretary of State for War at the outbreak of hostilities. He was the first member of the military to hold this post.

The well-known song of the period, It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, was the subject of a law-suit when Alice Smyth Burton Jay claimed the music was based on her song I’m on My Way to Yakima, thus proving that the concept of music piracy is not simply a 21st-century Internet phenomenon. She lost the case.

Archduke Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered off the chain of events that led to World War I, was a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army at the early age of fourteen.

His assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was captured, but in view of his age (he was not yet twenty years old) was not sentenced to death. He was sent to prison, where he died in 1918 after contracting tuberculosis.

In 1917, French war defences included a plan to build a “decoy” Paris to attract the (hand-thrown) bombs of the fledgling Luftwaffe.

Our friend and colleague Martin Wright, together with Strasbourg University’s English Theatre Group, presents a comedy entertainment on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 16-18 and 23-25 March.

Full schedule in the poster: click to download it as a PDF file.