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Taper Bound: British writer Howard Barker’s 1990 play “Scenes from an Execution” will be the next production at the Mark Taper Forum (March 25-May 9), and will bring the U.S. stage debut of British actress Juliet Stevenson. She will play a 16th-Century Venetian painter whose work on a state-commissioned painting of a battle lands her in prison. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, the production fills a slot previously intended for a classical production.