Mark Lockyer writes about the horrific experience of developing bipolar disorder (and self-medicating with alcohol) while playing Mercutio in a run of Romeo and Juliet at Stratford in 1995.
Tag: 11.28.16
Indie Film In The Philippines Is Having A Renaissance – But Can It Break Out Of The Festival Circuit And Reach Home Audiences?
What’s more, considering that many of these small neorealist movies deal with poverty, violence, drugs, and corruption, how will they fare under President Duterte?
When Logical, Evidence-Based Reasoning Gets Treated Like A Religion, Things Can Get Ugly
“A new study finds that, for some, logic- and evidence-based reasoning may as well have been commandments handed down from God. … Yeah, they’re looking at you, New Atheists.”
The Dictionary With The Awesome Twitter Account
“If you were ever a nerd who thought of the dictionary as your best friend … well, this is sort of like that dictionary has finally come to life and loves you back and also tweets about words all the time.” A conversation with the folks behind @MerriamWebster.
Sergei Polunin’s Rise, Fall, And Return To Dance – And What He Thinks About It Now
This preview of the documentary Dancer gives a good overview of the story of “ballet’s James Dean” – with quotes like this one about his troubled period in London: “At first, I didn’t want to talk to the media, I feel like I was shaken into talking to them, then they became [a sounding board]. … I started using the media as psychiatrists, I guess, they were someone to talk to.”
Why Oscars Season, Like Christmas-Shopping Season, Keeps Getting Earlier And Earlier
“When the early ceremonies give out their awards, often the only people who’ve seen the films are critics, festivalgoers, and (sometimes) their own voting bodies. Are these awards about recognition, or are they about advocacy, or are they about attempting to steer a conversation? Or they, at this point, just about being first?”
5,000-Year-Old City Unearthed In Egypt
The first reports on this find in English, which came out just as the Thanksgiving holiday was starting, said that the ruins archaeologists found near Abydos in southern Egypt were 7,000 years old. That seems to have been a mistranslation from the initial news release in Arabic. Even so, this is one of the earliest settlements yet found in the country.
‘The Pérez Art Museum Miami Just Got A Lot More Pérez – $15 Million Worth’
“The longtime arts supporter for whom the 3-year-old public museum is named, Jorge Pérez, has pledged a multimillion-dollar gift to the museum over the next 10 years with specific instructions. The goal: to acquire the works of Cuban and Latin American artists and bolster the museum’s endowment.”
Artists, Afraid Of What Trump Administration Will Bring, Direct Their Pleas To Ivanka
“She has become known in the art world as a progressive figure and as someone who seems to care much more about culture than her father does.” Yet the group, even as it goes so far as to march in front of her apartment building, doesn’t expect much direct effect from their efforts.
Ethan Stiefel Is Making A Ballet About The Space Program
Washington Ballet director Julie Kent commissioned him to create a work for the JFK centennial celebrations at the Kennedy Center – but, as he says, “I didn’t want to do JFK: The Ballet.” (Think of the fights over who’d get to dance Jackie and Marilyn.) He came up with the idea for what to do instead (where else?) on one of his motorcycle odysseys.