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“…A turning point came in 1999, when she began to study with Tatiana Olear, an actress who had trained under Dodin, and with Elen Bowman, whose own training came in a direct line from Stanislavsky.This translates into a very particular modus operandi. With every text that she works on, she reads it first (with the […]
Nicholas De Jongh, currently Evening Standard Theatre critic has written a play to be staged in Feb 2008 at the Finborough. I wonder what all the other critics will make of it?
Plague over England
“In Autumn 1953, Sir John Gielgud, then at the height of his fame as […]
My friend, Debs Paterson-Gardner co-write and directed a short film in Rwanda. I went to see it at its first screening last night. It is very good. I’m not sure where it goes from here but do look out for it.
We are all Rwandans. The story is:
In 1997, three years after the Rwandan genocide, a […]
I recently went to see Wicked. I enjoyed it. I don’t go to musicals that much. I seem to forget how much dancing there is. All the performers are skilled and it is impressive seeing them move, sing, dance and act their way through at full pelt with seldom a dull moment.
A friend of mine […]
Quite fun vocabulary game which also means advertisers donate a little bit of rice.
Try it out: Freerice
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The blurb: FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.
FreeRice has two goals:
Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the […]
I was a Spaced virgin until last weekend. I sat amongst loyal Spaced fans at the NFT to watch both series 1 and 2 back to back. Only interrupted by quick loos breaks, snatched red wine, chip butty sandwiches; and a Q&A with most of the cast and director.
In the Q&A it was asked: OK, […]
In a very late response (I’ve been out of the country and squashed by an increasing plethora of things-to-do) to Stephen Sharkey’s question on Medea in ancient Greek, I enjoyed it immensely.
I have the advantange of having seen a few Ancient Greeks plays now.
One crucial experience that you miss in English is the poetry and […]