Sir Trevor Nunn is directing a play called ‘Dessert’. It seems to be a virtue-signalling riff on the evil of possessions. Doubtless Cicero and Aratus will not feature.
On the face of it, the Roman statesman Cicero (1st c bc) was a passionate upholder of property rights.
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