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Theatre for Beginners is your honest doorway into the stage where civilizations learned to think out loud. In each episode, one writer and one living question: why does this still hit us in the chest? No jargon, no gatekeeping—just story, stakes, and the human choices that won’t sit quietly. You’ll meet the architects of drama and comedy from Athens to Edo to London: Aeschylus turning grief into law, Sophocles giving conscience a spine, Euripides dragging the sacred into the kitchen, Aristophanes laughing politics back to its senses, Zeami shaping silence, Shakespeare setting language on...

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