The theatre has been jointly funded by Eastleigh Borough Council, which already runs the Point Theatre in Eastleigh, and many technical resources are being shared between the two venues.

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Vanishing Point theatre - which is planning several international collaborations this year - said its future programme would be left "constrained and compromised" if it could not apply for funding over a number of years.

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In this new world, point of sales becomes a theatre that needs the productions created by the CMO in order to bring people in.

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Chen keeps the action charging forward breathlessly, for more than two and a half hours, and at a certain point you begin to realize that the obvious theatre-versus-life ironies are only a small part of what the movie is about.

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At one point a railway station, at another a race course, the theatre becomes an all-encompassing world intended to reflect the characters' obsession with etiquette, decorum and manners.

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