“BBC Television [has] announced … it is reviving the series, which originally ran on rival network ITV, along with one of its creators and stars, Jean Marsh. Eileen Atkins, who created the series with Marsh, will be hired for the new show. The public broadcaster said the drama will be relaunched with two 90-minute films in 2010 and will be set in 1936. A series may follow in 2011 but that has not been decided yet.”
Tag: 10.12.09
Was Oregon Ballet Theatre Right To Get Rid Of Its Executive Director?
“[A]rguably the biggest mistake was bumping up the budget almost $300,000 in the most recent fiscal year after the company had finished the previous one with a loss of almost $1 million.” But “the company was in a state of euphoria over what it was putting onstage, and that this led to its budgeting mistakes.”
VW Tests Its ‘Fun Theory’ In A Swedish Subway Station
Volkswagen’s idea (fleshed out at thefuntheory.com) is that if you make something that’s good for people – like taking the stairs instead of the escalator – fun, people will actually do it. Their latest demonstration project is turning the stairs in a Stockholm subway station into a giant piano keyboard; step on a key and get a note. And it’s working.
Historic Shakespeare Volumes, Including Fourth Folio, Headed To UCLA
“UCLA’s Clark Library is to receive a collection of 72 books related to Shakespeare that includes a 1685 fourth folio of his works, two histories that formed the basis of his plays and a 1603 book by Montaigne that introduced the playwright to the words ‘adulterous,’ ‘miraculous,’ ‘depraved’ and ‘scandalous’.”
Pina Bausch’s Company Names Successors
“Dominique Mercy and Robert Sturm have been named as the pair tapped to take over [Tanztheater Wuppertal,] the German dance company once led by the iconic choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in June.” Both men are longtime company members.
Aussie Writers Line Up Against Kindle
“Jeremy Fisher, executive director of the Australian Society of Authors, said he was advising his 3000 members to resist publishing through the Kindle.” What’s more, Australian users will pay 20 percent more per e-book than US customers.
Frederick The Great’s Own Flute Played In Concert
“At a special performance on Usedom, the Baltic Sea island best known as the place where the Nazis developed and tested the V-2 rocket, the instrument had its first public outing since the Prussian monarch (1712-1786) played it at his Potsdam palace.”
Iraq National Theatre Reopens After Six Dark Years
“The theatre at Fatah Square in Karrada is protected by blast walls while police are deployed in large numbers in surrounding streets during and after performances. … [T]heatre-goers are not exempt from the vehicle searches and security checks that pervade daily life in Baghdad, [but] the fact that the city is hosting evening shows at all is progress….”
The Tate Modern’s New Black Void
“The structure,” a sculpture by Miroslaw Balka, “is enormous … and once inside it, visitors will walk into complete blackness hoping – presumably – that they don’t then bump or knock into fellow art-lovers. Tate Modern said health and safety had been on its mind and the space will be regularly patrolled by attendants with torches.”
Edinburgh Book Festival Names New Director
Nick Barley, former chief executive of Glasgow’s Lighthouse architecture and design center, “said he wanted to take ‘a more strongly editorial approach’ to the book festival, creating themed strands in the programme that reflect the way that the world is seen by writers.”