It’s … weird. “Does this game want us to consider ourselves, the soldiers, as conquerors? Or sufferers? And what of the casualties? There are minimal depictions of civilians getting killed (except a notable sequence involving a bombing raid from afar), so the game left me with the feeling that I was a hero for having killed all those brown men. I, after all, endured.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
What Do You Do After You Found An Itinerant Theatre Troupe With $500 And Then Keep It Going For 25 Years?
Michelle Hensley founded Ten Thousand Things, which “pioneered an operating style — paying good wages to top-notch actors while cutting costs by keeping designs minimal — now practiced by at least eight companies nationwide.” Now she’s stepping down.
The ‘Language Warrior’ Who Racks Up Literary Awards
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o didn’t think he’d ever become a writer, much less a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist with his work translated into more than 60 languages. Now, he’s fighting for recognition for his native language, Gĩkũyũ. He says, “No language is ever marginal to the community that created it. Languages are like musical instruments. You don’t say, let there be a few global instruments, or let there be only one type of voice all singers can sing.”
Sam Wanamaker’s 44-Year Battle (Partly Against Snobbery Toward Americans) To Rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe In London
Director Dominic Dromgoole: “The British desire not to do things, not to make things, can be very wearying. But Wanamaker, an extraordinary blend of charmer, irritant, huckster, dreamer and impresario, plowed on.”
Chi-chi Nwanoku Was Tired Of Being The Only Black Musician In The Orchestra, So She Formed One Of Her Own
The double bass player recruited and organized a group quickly in 2015, and her project has been a success. “The Chineke! Foundation — which includes both Europe’s first professional orchestra made up entirely of minority musicians from across Britain and Europe, and also a junior orchestra — has had a strong impact not only on the musicians involved, but also on the audiences.”
What’s Going To Happen If The Writers Do Strike? (It’s Not Good)
A last-minute deal could happen, but “if writers walk off the job, scores of productions would be halted at a time when Los Angeles is enjoying a surge in the number of TV shows that shoot in the region.”
What’s It Like To Spend The Night In Elsinore?
Even when you’re not Hamlet, it can be a little … intense. It started here: “I won a contest hosted by Airbnb, where entrants were invited to explain why they wanted to spend the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death at Kronborg Castle — better known to the English-speaking world as Elsinore.”
Shakespeare’s Colleagues Go Digital For His Birthday
In honor of Shakespeare’s 453rd birthday (and, perhaps, 401st death day), the Folger has opened a treasure trove: “a Digital Anthology of Early English Drama, which makes original scripts and visual images from 40 plays available to anyone with Internet access.”
Making Art At The March For Science, AKA The A In STEAM
There was poetry, there were colorful signs, and there were scientists who only went into science because they read Margaret Atwood. The marches weren’t supposed to be political, but “one of the poems in Ms. Roberts’s handout,’“Advice from a Caterpillar’ by Amy Gerstler, felt like it could serve as a manual for resistance, or at least for survival. ‘Behave cryptically to confuse predators,’ it read: ‘change colors, spit, or feign death. If all else fails, taste terrible.'”
Apple Caught Uber Tracking IPhone Users Even After They Deleted The App
And the #deleteUber movement gets more fuel for its fire: “The practice, called fingerprinting, is prohibited by Apple. To prevent the company from discovering the practice, Uber geofenced Apple headquarters in Cupertino, changing its code so that it would be hidden from Apple Employees.”