The Great Lafayette

Looking for Lafayette

Looking for Lafayette

By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre is to mark the centenary of the death of the illusionist The Great Lafayette, who died in a fire at the old Empire Theatre, on which the current building is built, on 9 May 1911. Lafayette’s death is surrounded by myth, rumour and wild speculation and the theatre is […]

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