Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut

For years, playwright Mark Ravenhill kept quiet about his love for opera. Then he decided to write one – about irritable bowel syndromeTwenty years ago, at Brixton tube station, I fell in love with a man on a poster. A musclebound white rasta with fierce blue eyes, Karl worked as a stagehand at the English National Opera and was part of an ingenious publicity campaign that used images of the behind-the-scenes staff to attract new audiences to opera. I decided that I had to work in the same bui...

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