By MICHAEL COVENEY Theatre LIBERTY Shakespeare's Globe LONDON * Anatole France was a Nobel prize-winning author, Glyn Maxwell is a poet of some reputation and the French Revolution was a fair old shindig.

By Susan Mansfield "YOU try to write satire and the next week you find out you're writing documentary," says Glyn Maxwell, incredulous of the speed at which each development in reality TV outdoes the last.

By Susan Mansfield "YOU try to write satire and the next week you find out you're writing documentary," says Glyn Maxwell, incredulous at the speed at which each development in reality TV outdoes the last.