Bristol’s Old Vic Theatre Gets A New Door, And A New Acknowledgement Of The Theatre’s Place In Britain’s Slave Trade

Many of the theatre’s founding investors in 1766 made that money directly from the city’s slave trade. The Old Vic’s artistic director: “The theatre is undeniably a part of the slave trade legacy in Bristol. … The building came out of that economic boom and I don’t think it is enough anymore to just assume that people then did not know the trade was wrong.”

What’s It Like To Be A Screenwriter In The Superhero Biz?

That depends: Are you a woman? Then you’re one of a very few. Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who wrote the third Tomb Raider and has written the 2019 Captain Marvel, says that can be an issue. “I’ve had male directors tell me, ‘I just want her to be a normal girl,’ for their hero. … And that’s really depressing because what’s a normal girl? Have you met a normal girl?”