After a prolonged pause from grand theatrical ventures, Prof. Sunanda Mahendra has returned with Confucius. It is a work that is at once quiet and confrontational, meditative and piercing.

It's a big evening for Christophe Ferland and his principal patrons, Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, with Uther bidding to repeat the Grand Prix de Paris success of his half-brother Sosie towards the end ...