“I have nothing against [public school-educated actors] Eddie Redmayne, Damian Lewis or Benedict Cumberbatch, but I think the acting industry should be more mixed. At the moment, it’s cutting itself off from a whole section of society. … I feel awful that young people don’t have the opportunities that I had. That understanding of the need for social mobility that came after the Second World War has gone.”
Tag: 01.19.13
Showing Audiences How The Choreographic Sausage Is Made
“Designed as a way to open a window onto the creative process, [Doug Varone’s] Stripped/Dressed intimately reveals to an audience within sweat-spray range how a dance is constructed by stripping it down – no costumes, minimal lighting – and rebuilding it to its fully dressed performance state.”
‘My Job Is About Building Stuff:’ #UpgoerFive Challenges Jargon
“Enforced avoidance of jargon brings benefits, and some of the authors who have tried the ‘ten hundred words’ approach have delivered some beautiful, clear prose which would definitely have Big Brother rethinking his strategy. Double plus good.”
Kickstarter Loves Games And Movies, The Numbers Say
Want to get funded on crowdsource big name Kickstarter? Your best chance comes if you’re making a game – and second best is making a movie. (Dance … er. Maybe you could try funding a movie about dance?)
Yes, Drive-In Movie Theatres Still Exist – But Digital Is Killing Them
“The vast majority of indoor theaters — hardtops, in drive-in lingo — have already converted to digital projectors, but 90% of drive-ins have not, according to an industry trade group.”
Good Bookstores Don’t Make Money, So We Should Give Money To Them
“While these shops might break even, in some cases turn a small profit, it is only because their customers override their instinct to act like consumers and act like good citizens instead.”
The Power Of Reticence
Should writers and other artists just back off on the reveal-all memoir? Poet Sharon Olds might say yes.
Far From Killing The Classics, The Internet Makes Them More Accessible Than Ever
Aside from providing free e-books of everything out of copyright, the online world rewrites and re-creates meaning for the authors’ original works.
Are British Museums Running (Scared) On Renoir Fumes?
Sir Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, has some choice words for art institutions in Britain at a time when his former museum is putting on a David Bowie exhibit (for the box office, he says).
Portland Or San Diego? Theatre Communications Group Will Soon Choose
San Diego has major advantages – size, money, proximity to L.A. – but then there’s the whole Portlandia vibe…