“Alberta Ballet executive director Martin Bragg said in an interview … that the company, which employs 34 dancers full time, is the collateral damage of the program that allows citizens of other countries to work in Canada for specified periods of time in certain industries.”
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The Problems With Cross-Gender Casting In Shakespeare
“The two best justifications for the practice are a relative shortage of major roles for women and a desire to freshen up overfamiliar texts.” Yet, argues Mark Lawson, cross-casting sets carefully wrought father-daughter and mother-son relationships (Prospero and Miranda, Lear, Hamlet and Gertrude) awry, and “if the governing aim of a production is to make the play seem different, perhaps those involved ought to be doing a different play.”
You Know What’s Wrong With Grammar Nazis?
“[They] are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and … have a tin ear for its nuances of meaning and emphasis. Too lazy to crack open a dictionary, they are led by gut feeling and intuition rather than attention to careful scholarship. … In their zeal to purify usage and safeguard the language, they have made it difficult to think clearly about felicity in expression and have muddied the task of explaining the art of writing.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.23.14
Do Artists Embrace or Resist Technology?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-23
ArtPrize Matures: The People Vs. Experts
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-24
Even if…
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-09-23
Autumn Comes
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-09-23
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Protests Over “Death Of Klinghoffer” At Met Opera Opening Night (They Weren’t “Massive”, Exactly)
“Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Met before the performance of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro for a noisy demonstration calling for the company to cancel its production of John Adams’s 1991 opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, which is to have its Met premiere next month.”
Alastair Reid, 88, Poet, Essayist, Translator
“In his poetry, he was perhaps best known for his anthologised poem ‘Scotland’, which concludes ‘We’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it!’ and he was renowned as a fine essayist” who wrote for The New Yorker for 40 years.