The two companies, whose styles couldn’t be more different, are playing the warring Trojans and Greeks in an upcoming Troilus and Cressida. Longtime Wooster actress Kate Valk: “It took us two weeks to read it through once. We were looking everything up and watching movie versions to remind ourselves of the characters, because we’d get so lost in it.”
Tag: 08.01.12
Why Christopher Hitchens Declined To Be Gore Vidal’s Literary Successor
We avoided having an open breach. But the last time [I saw] him he was obviously through with me. He was asked at some public event in New York whether he regretted making me his delfino, and he said perhaps he should withdraw it. And I was thinking, well perhaps I should do the same thing.’
Just How Little The Olympics Understands Social Media
The most absurd restriction can be found on the official Olympics home page, in a completely unenforceable section of its terms of use, saying Internet users can’t even link to their site unless they agree not to portray the Olympics “in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner.”
Citizen Kane Dethroned As Greatest Film Ever In BFI’s Latest Poll
The British Film Institute’s worldwide poll of experts and critics, conducted every ten years, has seen Citizen Kane come out on top every time since 1962 – until now, as Orson Welles gets bumped down to runner-up by Alfred Hitchcock.
Bringing Square Dancing Back To Life In West Virginia
The Mountain Dance Trail project, run out of Davis & Elkins College, “has helped organize dances across the state, cultivating tradition county by county. With a nod to the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky and the Crooked Road music trail in Virginia, it is a homegrown effort to revive and brand a West Virginia legacy.”
Calls For Int’l Boycott Of Malaysian Philharmonic Following Musicians’ Firing
“An international musicians’ group has called for a global boycott of recruitment by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO), saying the symphony sacked nine members without cause. The Paris-based International Federation of Musicians (IFM) posted on its website a strongly-worded attack on the sackings, in a rare note of discord in the usually genteel world of symphony music.”
Long-Lost Raphael Discovered In Bank Vault
“Portrait of a Young Man, around 1513-1514, from the Czartoryski family collection in Krakow, was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939 for Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz. It disappeared in 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War.” Polish authorities won’t say where it was found, except that it is “in a region of the world where the law favours us.”
Shakespeare’s First Folio To Be Scanned, Posted On Web
The Bodleian Library’s copy, still in its original binding, is being stabilized by conservators so that it can be photographed; a £20,000 appeal has begun to cover the costs of preservation, digitizing the photographs and posting them online.
One Of Warsaw’s Top Theatres Struggles With Slashed Budget
“When Katarzyna Szustow, head of communications for the Dramatyczny Theatre, was asked about its financial situation, she replied with a single word: tragic. The theatre has been operating since 1949. But in the five years since Szustow joined, the budget, dependent on subsidies from city authorities, has shrunk 30%.”
River Phoenix’s Final Film To Premiere 19 Years After His Death
“Dutch director George Sluizer has finally finished Dark Blood, the movie actor River Phoenix was working on when he died at age 23 of a heart attack on Halloween night 1993 … Sluizer will present the film for the first time at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht in September.”