A new play about Hadrian’s Wll is being performed… along Hadrian’s Wall. “They will step out along 84 miles of the Hadrian’s Wall path, a national trail opened last year, while the lucky stage manager will ride the route in comfort with the baggage in the company van. The day after each show in communities along the wall, the six actors plus the playwright will don boots and waterproofs and give another kind of blistering performance, striding 10 miles to the next venue.”
Tag: 08.17.04
Shoot The (Journalist) Comic. Please!
Guardian journalist Paul MacInes figured he’d seen enough bad stand-up comedians do their thing. So he decided to give it a try himself at the Edinburgh Fringe. “As it turns out, few of them are as rubbish as me. Fired into the bearpit of Edinburgh’s most notorious stand-up spot, I was to leave clawed, gouged and with a tenderised groin. I wasn’t expecting the mauling I got. Indeed, I may never get over it.”
Newport Jazz Turns 50
“The symbolic battle, all those years ago, was to make the world outside its own cabal take jazz seriously. This could more easily happen, it was decided, in a wealthy place that forced a certain kind of attention from social elites and the media. ‘We have no particular love for Newport. Yet in one sense of the word we have brought democracy to Newport, which was the last place in the world where it could have been expected to be found in America’.”
Khouri Insists Her Book Not A Fraud
Norma Khouri is still maintaining her book is not a hoax, even after her publisher pulled the book from stores. “It didn’t take them [Random House] long to make up their minds. They gave her until Friday to respond to them and when she didn’t respond to them, they pulled the pin on her. They were obviously very anxious to move.”
Scottish National Orchestra Gets New Director
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has a new music director – Stéphane Denève, a “complete unknown to British audiences.
Announcing the appointment, the orchestra’s chief executive, Simon Crookall, described the relationship between the players and the 32-year-old Frenchman as ‘love at first sight’.”