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In Jacobean England, it was generally agreed that the end of the world would occur in the year 2000. How wrong they were! Our happy year has brought us not Armageddon (George W won't be president till 2001), but a spontaneous celebration of friendship between nations.
The Olympics has also brought Sydney a respectably sized arts festival, which includes an extraordinary number of Jacobean revenge tragedies. The Bell Company's Troilus and Cressida starts soon, the movie version of Titus Andronicus (in which the heads of children are baked in pies and served to their parents) is coming, and at the carpark-like Royal there is The White Devil.