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Theo is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly editor of WhatsOnStage, he has written for a range of publications including the Guardian, Time Out, The Stage and Time magazine.

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Austrian dramatist Anna Gmeyner’s work was banned in the 1930s, but has grown in prominence in recent years. Theo Bosanquet, her great-grandson, travels to southern Germany for the premiere of one of her plays, 80 years after it was written

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