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Atlantic, The, December, 2005 by Matthew Quirk
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DECEMBER 10
A Seamier Side of Nobel
Best known for inventing dynamite and creating and funding the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel was also a playwright, though his work has (perhaps justifiably) gone unstaged—until today. In Stockholm, on the same day that Nobel's prizes are distributed, a small theater will stage his play Nemesis . The four-act anti-capitalist tragedy, suppressed as blasphemy in its time, features rape, incest, chemically induced visions of the Virgin Mary, and a forty-minute torture scene. Even the theater's director admits, "It's not Strindberg."
DECEMBER 13-18
Doha Nears Death
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