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...that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos (pictured), was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?
...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?

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