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Revival of Patrick Marber's first play Dealer's Choice in London directed by Samuel West. This revival comes to the Trafalgar Studios following a critically acclaimed sell-out season at The Menier Chocolate Factory.
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After a stellar junior college career, West took his talents to Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas where he served as the team captain during both his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he helped to lead the Tigers to both a Southwestern Athletic Conference and national NAIA championship in 1977.
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In addition to theology, West was interested in history, the law, medicine, politics, the physical sciences, and even alchemy. He was reputed to have read every available book on these subjects. A founding member of Boston's American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780, he contributed papers on the making of porcelain, and on the geology of Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard. He was given honorary membership in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. In 1793 Harvard awarded him a Doctor of Scientific Theology. Science was part of his preaching: "A revelation pretending to be from God, that contradicts any part of natural laws ought to be immediately rejected as imposture; for the Deity cannot make a law contrary to the law of nature without acting contrary to himself, a thing."
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In den letzten Jahren hat sich West außerdem als Erzähler zahlreicher Dokumentationen einen Namen gemacht. Darunter zählen unter anderem The Nazis: A Warning From History, Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl und Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution.
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West is much sought-after as a narrator of television documentaries, including the acclaimed series The Nazis: A Warning from History and The Planets, both in 1997. He has made a speciality of appearing in concert recitals: he performed the spoken lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. On radio West has voiced a range of programmes from one off radio dramas and serials to recitations of poetry. In 2006 he narrated the BBC Radio 4 production of A Passage to India.
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West had a positive view of human nature, and asserted that humans were possessed of free will. He expressed these Arminian and other liberal theological views frequently and eloquently. He disliked the Calvinist notion that good Christians ought to be willing to be damned and go to Hell. Although not a full Unitarian, he doubted the Athanasian view of the Trinity, believing that Jesus and God were not one and inseparable. He insisted that the Bible was the only necessary creed. Much of his objection to the writings of Jonathan Edwards—and most other theologians—was that their arguments were too complex and obscure.
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