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Aug 2024
43m 28s

Dinner Parties

NOISER
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A Roman emperor terrifies his guests with a macabre dining room display. At a feast in Norway, drunk Vikings engage in a rap battle. A teenage Alexander the Great makes a scene at his dad’s dinner party. And partygoers in Victorian London get up close and personal with an unusual guest - an Egyptian mummy…


A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris.


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