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Philip Glass' Satyagraha at the ENO

John Lewis, The Times, March 2007

A MAN DRESSED as Gandhi, in a loin-cloth and Alf Garnett specs, is curled up on the floor as twenty men brandish chairs and throw balls of screwed-up paper at him. They start to shout at him. In Sanskrit.

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