English National Opera’s Gaddafi: A Living Myth, three years ago, was “one of the most risible nights I’ve ever spent in the theatre.” Life imitates art “in the photographs this week of Gaddafi’s celebrations of 40 years since the revolution. The shots of actors recreating a mass hanging, enveloped by a strange green light, or dancers shaking it in front of a model Sphinx with red-laser eyes could have come straight out of ENO’s ill-fated stage designs. There are dramatic parallels, too.”