Whoops: “What ticked Christie off the most, quite understandably, was a comment from theatre producer Bertie Meyer, who decided to tell the author, after seeing her recent publicity shot, that, ‘Frankly, Agatha, that photo makes you look about 70.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Chocolate Is An Essential At The BBC Proms, Plus More Proms Info And Tips
Apparently, opera sounds better at the Proms? “The amazing thing about opera at the Proms is it’s like lifting the lid on the engine of opera, because you can see into the orchestra all the time. It’s like you’re enmeshed in it.”
A Stuntman On ‘The Walking Dead’ Has Died After An On-Set Accident
John Bernecker, a 33-year-old stuntman for the popular zombie show, “reportedly fell more than 20 feet from a balcony onto a concrete floor, suffering a head injury.”
Newsflash, People: Jane Austen Wasn’t Shy About Her Writing
And add this total horse hooey to the pile of conveniently told canards: “Dramatic new flourishes to the story continue to pop up, too. The Telegraph recently referred to Austen ‘stuffing her scrawled pages into her dress whenever someone entered the room’ — a detail straight out of Samuel Richardson’s best-selling novel, ‘Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded,’ published in 1740-41. Imagining Austen shoving papers into a flimsy Regency frock in front of a parlor window may well be your idea of a good time. If so, enjoy the imaginary peep show, but don’t call it history.”
Why Is Summer Rep So Dude-Heavy? You Probably Know The Answer
Yep, it’s the Bard. “Dozens more men than women are acting on stage because of the continuing fascination by arts institutions and audiences with William Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories – written during a time and in a place where women were legally prohibited from acting.”
Jane Austen Had The Best Words
There’s a reason her work has thrived since it was published. “Her novels, reasonably successful in their day, were innovative, even revolutionary, in ways her contemporaries did not fully recognize. Some of the techniques she introduced — or used more effectively than anyone before — have been so incorporated into how we think about fiction that they seem to have always been there.” Also, ask the data!
One Literary Manager Says There Are Plenty Of (White) Women Writing Plays, But Where Are The Playwrights Of Color?
The literary manager of London’s Royal Court Theatre: “Diversity [in terms of] men and women has improved so drastically during my time working in theatre it is almost laughable.” But he’d also like to see more BAME – Black, Asian, and minority ethnic – playwrights being produced in his theatre and elsewhere.
What Did Beethoven’s Ninth Mean To World Leaders, And The U.S. President, At The G20 Summit?
Music actually isn’t universal – or at least its meanings aren’t. “Beethoven’s Ninth is an especially slippery reference point, and may have triggered very different associations among guests at the summit. The message Ms. Merkel probably intended to send — promoting a culture of tolerance and brotherhood — may have been garbled.”
You May Hate Football, Or Fiction, Or YouTube, But Read This Story Anyway
Seriously. Just click on the link and keep going. (It’s not finished yet but will be within a few days, which is likely about how long it will take you to deal with this piece anyway.) As a Gizmodo explainer said, “It’s a deep thought experiment into what we consider humanly possible.”
Experiencing A 5,000-Year-Old Subterranean Cave System With Ruth Bader Ginsberg
It doesn’t matter if the West, whatever the president meant by that, wants to or “has the will to survive,” whatever survival means. “Visiting the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum is a good reminder that no matter how hard you resist, everything around you will eventually be buried and that most likely no one will find it until thousands of years later, and if they do, it’s usually by accident.”