“It was part of a 1960 revue at the Nottingham Playhouse called You, Me and the Gatepost, performed for one night only, and then promptly forgotten. But the sketch, written by a 29-year-old Harold Pinter and lost for more than half a century, has re-emerged as a result of some diligent detective work.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture
“A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these lessons down through generations – evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots.”
Dance Company That Lost Funding Says It May Leave Australia
“Choreographer Leigh Warren says he may be forced to move overseas to work after a cut in funding from the Australia Council. His company Leigh Warren and Dancers will lose $250,000 of annual funding.”
Why Soderbergh’s Contagion Won’t Make Us More Careful About Germs
“After the press show I attended, we were all given bottles of anti-bacterial handwash. Cute gimmick, we chortled, as we tossed them unopened into the bin. … Oddly, the genuine dangers posed by disease seem to frighten us far less than childish fancies.”
David Lynch On Going To The Dentist
“Then he introduces the needle into that gum. And just presses a little bit of Novocaine, And you don’t really feel it. But now he’s numbing as he goes. He’s numbing as he goes. So that needle could come clear up through your brain and you wouldn’t know it! He numbs as he goes. It’s so fantastic. I love going to the dentist.”
Christian Fundamentalists Disrupt Paris Play; Author ‘Forgives’ Them
“On Thursday, members of the Institut Civitas group interrupted a performance of On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God at the Theatre de la Ville, brandishing placards with the slogan ‘Stop Christianophobia’.” Playwright Romeo Castellucci says “I forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Tolkien’s Own Drawings Of Middle Earth Released
“A swath of JRR Tolkien’s original illustrations for The Hobbit are to be published for the first time this week as part of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the book’s publication.”
Dionysus In A Welsh Village Hall
“National Theatre Wales’s first musical, The Village Social, is a dark-comic cocktail of The Bacchae and The Vicar of Dibley.” A reporter rides along on the rural tour.
Seoul’s Top Orchestra Sees Open Revolt Against Conductor
“Musicians in crucial chairs of the KBS Symphony Orchestra have either walked out or been dismissed … Others are donning protest T-shirts and offering subpar work during practices and even some performances.” The players insist that conductor Hahm Shinik is incompetent, unable to identify different instruments or out-of-tune playing.
Twyla’s Come Fly Away Poster Girl Speaks
Holley Farmer, longtime dancer in Merce Cunningham’s company and star of the Broadway run of Tharp’s Sinatra musical: “I’m the girl in the blue dress dancing on Frank Sinatra’s hat. There we are, my trusty partner and I, locked in a cameo dance embrace. My knee is wrapped faithfully around his waist. We are staring at each other’s noses.”