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 * ...that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos (pictured), was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?
 * ...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
 * ...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?

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