“Dorian Gray reimagined as a gay aftershave model for our times?” No, it’s not a performance art piece or a bad TV movie – it’s the latest project from star choreographer Matthew Bourne. “Bourne is toying with the possibility of giving Dorian a doppelganger, an evil twin, and is still working out how to avoid having a literal version of the novel’s notorious portrait in the attic.”
Tag: 06.12.08
Architects In The Zoo
“Norman Foster, the world’s most celebrated hi-tech architect – the Sultan of Seamlessness, so to speak – has just completed an elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo that is not just low-tech but, to an almost shocking degree, earthy in its materiality… Foster’s team sought to deliver an architectural paradigm-shift in a genre that is utterly foreign to them.”
New Rule Of Thumb: If You’re Long, You’re Done
Gone With The Wind was supposed to be the show of the year in London’s West End. Instead, it flopped badly and will close this weekend. So what happened? Well, the thing was over four hours long when previews began, for one thing, and that doesn’t play in the fast-paced modern world in which “the days of a slow story build-up are gone.”
Inserting A Middleman, To Musicians’ Benefit
“At the Sydney Conservatorium of Music yesterday, the Music Council of Australia launched a scheme to help musicians” who cannot afford to purchase top-quality instruments, but need them to advance in their careers. “The National Instrument Bank will offer wealthy individuals and corporations the chance to buy instruments as investments, then loan them to musicians.”
Olympians Of The Staff
“When the Beijing Olympics open in August, to a heady mixture of sporting celebration and political controversy, music will play a huge part in reinforcing the image and message of the games.” In fact, a look all the way back to the original ancient Olympiad shows that “music has always played an important role in the event.”