... Athens Barbican Theatre Shakespeare's play tells the tale of a man whose fair weather friends desert him the moment he is bankrupt, among them politicians whose statements exemplify a society where promising is the air of the time. Does that sound familiar ...

... show was the initial French version of Les Miserables, before it became the Cameron Mackintosh blockbuster. The fate of the bankrupt, 1,700-seat Mogador, modelled on the London Palladium, still rests in the hands of the receivers. ...