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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

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Mariana Gardner

Mariana Gardner is an Anglo-Romanian author of several books of bilingual verse and prose focused on the human condition and diversity, on love altered by time, on impressions of exile and alienation. She is an essayist and a literary translator. Her poems and short stories are included in anthologies, collections and online in the USA, UK, Germany, Romania, France and Italy. Her writing has been translated into eight languages. She was one of a community group of script co-writers at A Carnival of Errors Project in partnership with Before I Go Theatre, Theatre Royal Norwich and Royal Shakespeare Company.