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ASH Smyth

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ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".

Articles By ASH Smyth

Globe to Globe: Cymbeline, Shakespeare's Globe

Friday, 04 May 2012 Read more...

Two Years At Sea

Friday, 04 May 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: Walliams on Dahl, Gill vs. Beard, and a new (old) play by Eugene O'Neill

Saturday, 28 April 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: Arafat/Peres, Orhan Pamuk and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

Saturday, 21 April 2012 Read more...

La Fille du Régiment, Royal Opera

Friday, 20 April 2012 Read more...

Town of Runners

Thursday, 19 April 2012 Read more...

Pamela Stephenson: The Fame Report, More4

Wednesday, 18 April 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: Bruce Chatwin, The Doors, and an Easter break in the West Country

Saturday, 14 April 2012 Read more...

Perspectives: Sergeant on Spike, ITV1

Monday, 09 April 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: modern spies, Rwanda, and how to get ahead through shameless self-promotion

Saturday, 07 April 2012 Read more...

Arena: Jonathan Miller, BBC Two

Sunday, 01 April 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: The Island ex-President, Act(ors?) of Valor and Aung San Suu Kyi's piano

Saturday, 31 March 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: Stanley Donwood, Mark Ronson, and Round Ireland with a flop

Saturday, 24 March 2012 Read more...

After Miss Julie, Young Vic

Thursday, 22 March 2012 Read more...

Arena: The Dreams of William Golding, BBC Two

Sunday, 18 March 2012 Read more...

theASHtray: Douglas Adams, the petty tyranny of Saul Zaentz Co., and KONY 1987

Saturday, 17 March 2012 Read more...

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