bedlam
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But the Bedlam theater company’s choice to mount a production of “Othello” using just a quartet of performers has a certain literary justification.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Back to Bedlam originally spent 10 weeks at number one and remains one of the UK's best-selling albums of all time.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2023
In another character, he was, probably briefly, “Hog Wild Tony Holzer, a Bundle of Bedlam in Beverly Hills.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
The reading room, housed right up in the dome of the building, was formerly the chapel of the Royal Bethlehem Hospital—the old Bedlam.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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