Friel’s diverse output, spanning a 50-year period, was bound together by his passion for language, his belief in the ritualistic nature of theatre and his breadth of understanding.
Tag: 10.02.15
World’s Clumsiest Art Thief Found Dead In London Canal
Sebastiano Magnanini, 46, was convicted in 1998 of stealing an altarpiece by Tiepolo from a church in Venice. “[He] was 24 at the time, and the theft – characterized as an operatic farce by the Italian news media – alarmed some in the country and fanned debate about how to protect treasured artwork.”
‘No Satisfaction Whatever At Any Time’ – When Agnes De Mille Met Martha Graham Over A Soda
“Feeling that critics and the public had long ignored work into which she had poured her heart and soul, De Mille found herself dispirited by the sense that something she considered ‘only fairly good'” – her choreography for Oklahoma! – “was suddenly hailed as a ‘flamboyant success.’ Shortly after the premiere, she met Graham ‘in a Schrafft’s restaurant over a soda’ for a conversation that put into perspective her gnawing grievance and offered what De Mille considered the greatest thing ever said to her.”