Director Nick Bagnall “has edited the three parts of Henry VI into a series of two-hour dramas, each of which can be seen independently and will tour the country before a run at the Globe in London. But it is the battlefield days, in which all three plays will be presented in order, that are the biggest challenge.”
Tag: 07.09.13
Who’s The Man Who’s Going To Try To Tame The Snakepit At The Bolshoi?
“Vladimir Urin, the man who was appointed Tuesday as the new Bolshoi Theatre director, … won respect from colleagues by quietly revamping Moscow’s 90-year-old Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre to prominence over the past decade by attracting international talent while also popularising contemporary ballet in Russia before the trend caught on in the Bolshoi.”
Meet The First Black Woman To Direct In London’s West End
Paulette Randall, whose staging of August Wilson’s Fences is now at the Duchess: “It’s my biggest achievement, ‘course it is, but you never know what’s around the corner, do you? I’m nowhere near done. … But I am still so disappointed that there aren’t more of me out there.”
Physics Is Hard. So Is Poetry.
Physicist Adam J. Frank on his encounter with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: “Sitting there, book in hand, not understanding what I had just read I had to ask myself: is this any different than my experience with physics? … But what does it mean for a poem to be hard? Is it the same thing as when science is hard?”
The Unreadable Medieval Manuscript That Bewitches People
Reed Johnson recounts how the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript has obsessed a centuries-long succession of individuals who have tried repeatedly to decipher the code in which it’s written.
Take That, Dubai! World’s Largest Building Opens In China
“A 100m tall cliff-face of blue mirrored glass, stretching 500m along a triumphal plaza, the New Century Global Centre [in Chengdu] houses an entire seaside resort, along with a 14-screen Imax cinema, Olympic-sized ice rink, two five-star hotels and its own Mediterranean shopping village – all wrapped with a vast ribbon of offices.”
Why We Quit Reading A Book
Goodreads has made an Infographic that explains…
Bolshoi Ballet Fires Its Longtime General Director
“Anatoly Iksanov, 61, had managed the nation’s most celebrated ballet company since 2000. His tenure was marked by remarkable changes — primarily the grandiose restoration of the Bolshoi’s historic building in downtown Moscow — and multiple scandals. Under Iksanov’s watch the theater endured artistic conflicts and investigations into embezzlement and violent crime.”
Research: Choirs Synchronize Their Heartbeats
“Researchers in Sweden monitored the heart rates of singers as they performed a variety of choral works. They found that as the members sang in unison, their pulses began to speed up and slow down at the same rate.”
Are The Bankers Running The Minnesota Orchestra A Great Vampire Squid?
“Normally, one would expect the mayor, or the state’s governor, or perhaps the state’s US senators, to get involved in a negotiation that’s garnering so much negative national publicity. But politicians need donations, and most certainly don’t need the fourth or fifth largest bank in the country opposed to them.”