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• Jan Morris, ‘At The End Of Things,’ Takes Stock Of Her Long, Literary Life

  01-03-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you are not sure what you think about something, the most useful questions are these,’ she says. ‘Are you being kind? Are they being kind? That usually gives you the answer.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Clown & Dark Clown 2-day course 5 & 6 April / Peta Lily Company / London / West Midlands

  01-03-2020 22:28
  For actors, improvisers, cabaret, circus, physical theatre performers and the curious.
  The course is open to beginners as well as the more experienced idiot.
  Discover Clown or Re-fresh your Clown...
  
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• This Feature Film Could Be 700 Hours Long

  01-03-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, probably not, but that’s about how much footage the Russian director shot of the DAU project, “a multiyear experiment in which hundreds of nonprofessional actors lived and worked in a replica of a Soviet research institute, what may be the most ambitiously immersive film set ever made, in Ukraine. People played versions of themselves, transposed to lifestyles and careers of the Soviet Union. Artists, scientists and religious leaders visited the set, becoming part of the produc
  
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• In One Of The Most Expensive Cities In The World, Ballet School Decides To Offer Room, Board

  01-03-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The San Francisco Ballet School is facing an unpleasant reality for its dancers – and (finally, say some) changing up the way it operates. “For the San Francisco Ballet to operate both a school and a full-service dorm — with plans for healthy food service and in-residence physical therapy to meet the needs of dancers — might set a new standard.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• How Bob Iger Transformed Disney, And Hollywood

  01-03-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Iger, who suddenly stepped down as CEO of Disney last week, took over at the top 15 years ago, no one expected much from him – and they said so in the press. He was called “a loyal drone,” for example. But the man who said that also said, “The expectations were so low for Bob. … But no mogul in traditional entertainment has accomplished what he has.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A List Of All The Books Referenced In The Brilliant British Comedy ‘Sex Education’

  01-03-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Perhapsyou haven’t yet watched the Gillian Anderson-fueled comedy (it’s streaming in the US on Netflix), but you should know that there’s a high school girl who is a love interest for Anderson’s character’s son. But more than that: “What we learn about Maeve over the course of the show is that she is, secretly, a real Lit Girl. While her classmates are drinking cheap beer at house parties, she’s home reading the classics.” – LitHub
  
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• Gerald Krone, Co-Founder Of The Negro Ensemble Company, Has Died At 86

  01-03-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Krone was a theatre producer and manager who joined with Douglas Turner Ward, an actor and playwright, and Robert Hooks, an actor and producer, to found the company in 1967. The company won a special Tony after two years of existence, and sent three plays to Broadway. “In 1981 it staged, Off Broadway, the premiere of Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play, with a cast that included Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson; the play won the Pulitzer Prize.” – The New York
  
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• As Roman Polanski Wins Best Director, Actors Leave The Césars, Calling Him A Pedophile

  01-03-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While most of the César ceremony was predictable (and perhaps this was too), “the ceremony’s most notable moment was only indirectly related to what was happening on its stage, as Portrait Of A Lady On Fire star Adèle Haenel [and director Céline Sciamma, followed by other actors] pointedly walked out of the theater after the announcement of this year’s Best Director award, which went to convicted sexual abuser Roman Polanski.” – France24
  
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• Women on the Move: International Women's Day Poetry & Flash / Arachne Press / London

  01-03-2020 12:19
  To celebrate the launch of Emma Lee‘s new poetry collection The Significance of a Dress, we are holding an event at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street,...
  
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• Twenty springtime cultural highlights in the UK

  01-03-2020 11:00
  
  From Normal People on TV to Beethoven at the Royal Festival Hall, Observer critics pick the best from the new seasonLove (and sex) are very much in the air on television this spring as the much-hyped adaptation of Normal People, Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, arrives on BBC Three. Relative newcomers Daisy Edgar-Jones (best-known as Olivia in Cold Feet) and Paul Mescal (making his TV debut) take the lead roles of Marianne and Connell, two very different teenagers who fall unexpectedly in
  
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• 20 springtime cultural highlights in the UK

  01-03-2020 11:00
  
  From Normal People on TV to Beethoven at the Royal Festival Hall, Observer critics pick the best from the new seasonLove (and sex) are very much in the air on television this spring as the much-hyped adaptation of Normal People, Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, arrives on BBC Three. Relative newcomers Daisy Edgar-Jones (best-known as Olivia in Cold Feet) and Paul Mescal (making his TV debut) take the lead roles of Marianne and Connell, two very different teenagers who fall unexpectedly in
  
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• Young Rembrandt review – how a master learned from his mistakes

  01-03-2020 10:00
  
  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  This absorbing show of Rembrandt’s early work reveals how sweat and dedication turned an error-prone teenager into an artist of unrivalled greatnessRembrandt is shocked to see you. He reels backwards, mouth open, eyebrows raised in amazement at your startling arrival. You can see the whites of his eyes.This is the one-two action – you appear, he reacts – of this tremendous etching, made in 1630 when Rembrandt was around 24. It is a portrait of the artis
  
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• Senior Account Director / Flint / London

  01-03-2020 00:11
  Flint Culture is an award-winning communications consultancy for cultural and creative industries. Operating across the arts, culture, heritage and literary sectors, Flint offers a comprehensive...
  
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