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Tassos Stevens - all round Theatre Good Guy - we could with more like him:
is colloborating on a sciene and theatre get together
he asks (and see here)
Tell the story of a specific moment in your own work where something you did in practice advanced your understanding of your work (or your theory). Tell the story […]
Lisa Goldman. See here.
She was one of my first writing mentors (at the Soho Young Writers). She has always come across to me as extremely passionate on all levels, particularly politically.
I’m still very interested in everything she does and I couldn’t get any tickets to see her well praised Hoxton Story. It will be interesting […]
Have been busy and tired and I think I’ve caught another cold.
Had little energy for blog thoughts, they have flitted in out and out. Like the judge in the Da Vinci Code case putting a code in his judgement. I thought that was funny.
Anyway, here is something to go to if you are interested in […]
Theatre that creates political controversy has often used the “verbatim” process of late. I find this intriguing. I wonder if this is a response to the overwhelming onslaught of media reports today, when one can hardly ever go back to the original source and ascertain what shade is true and what is just a shade […]
Tom Stoppard argues free speech is not a “human right”.
See here.
He argues amongst other arguements
“A ‘human right’ is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. But the whole parcel of liberties into which free expression fits has a history. To St Augustine, […]
MB:…In the age of infinite electronic possibility, do you still have a positive faith in what theatre can do?
HP: The mere fact of audience and actors sharing that specific moment in time, the intensity of the life that passes between the stage and the auditorium, means there’s nothing quite like it. So yes I still […]
Lyn Gardner meets playwright Bryony Lavery, where she talks about overcoming accusations of plagiary.
Pinter in conversation with Billington
MB: …You spoke about the way a play is engendered by a line, a word or an image. Also about the way characters resist you and take on a life of their own. But is there not also […]
Thoughtful piece on getting into Beckett
“{late Beckett}…This is the point at which Beckett has reduced, condensed and distilled his preoccupations into passages of startling purity and sharpness. It’s as if Beethoven had stripped a whole symphony down to a handful of notes, each deployed in a way that evokes great flights of composition.”
I like Beckett […]
I have to admit a possible bias. (In what will quite probably be) my only time as an “actor” on the London stage was in a reading of The Cut at the Young Vic, I played the (non-speaking) role of Gita. I had high hopes for the play and of course higher expectations more often […]
After various travels for work and holiday, I’m back for the foreseeable future.
I whizzed by Milan, Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and stopped for a little more time in Singapore and Malaysia. I don’t recommend whizzing by any of these places, but travelling like this does bring home the vast differences and amazing similarities between humans […]