β¨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Arthur Conan Doyle π **What Youβll Learn**: TTo get a sense of how exhausting this adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is, you only have to consider its predecessors. The joke is that there are only four actors representing the famous detective, his friend John Watson, several members of the Baskerville family, plus servants, neighbors and yoke, not to mention number 221B Baker Street, which is a windswept moor. The impossibility of achieving such a task comes at the expense of the theater itself: shaky props, hasty costume changes,…
β¨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Friedrich Nietzsche,Books,Philosophy books,Culture,Australian books β
**What Youβll Learn**: One of the tricks I developed in the late stages of my first pregnancy to prevent inquiries, concerns, recommendations and advice about having a baby was to refer to her impending birth as βthe end of the world.ββI don't know,β I'd shrug. βWe'll see what things look like after the apocalypse.βIt was an effective strategy. There's not a lot of advice you can give a woman who's openly planning to experience motherhood like nuclear fallout. I was skeptical, even…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Art and design,Culture π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: A Woman bangs her head back. Her eyes and mouth are closed but she is awake. With rosy cheeks, red lips, and long golden hair, she glows from a sharply lit flame in a room shrouded in darkness. Her fabrics range from a lace-trimmed shirt blouse β which slides down her right shoulder, exposing her porcelain skin β to a heavy yellow and purple material, and she appears to be alone. Unaware of our existence, they exist in a…
π Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Classical music,JS Bach,Festivals,Culture,Music π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: TTaking on the role of the late Amelia Freedman as Artistic Director of Bath Baqfest is no small task for Adrian Brindle, but his determination to breathe new life into the three-day festival is evident, not least in creating a Baqfest band that unites hugely talented players in the early stages of their outstanding careers.The energy and commitment of the young players was palpable, and in a concert of Handel, Purcell, Bach and Vivaldi, and their collaboration with an older…
β¨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Clowns,Culture,France,Paris,Theatre,Comedy,London π **What Youβll Learn**: In 1980, the Γcole Philippe Juliet opened its doors in Paris to help performers find and celebrate their βinner fool.β The school quickly became a major destination for clown training, attracting theater students, actors and other curious people from around the world.Philip, who died aged 82 after suffering a lung infection, came up with the idea The game - He plays - Central to his teaching. For him, comedy was not about jokes, but danger: the moment when a performer risks failure…
π₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television,Netflix,US television,Culture,Television & radio,Jane Goodall β
**What Youβll Learn**: eExactly one day after actor Eric Dane's death, a new show has hit Netflix. Titled "Famous Last Words", it consisted of an interview with Eric Dane himself. While the timing of the journalist's release may at first appear coincidental at best and exploitative at worst, the reality of the interview was something else entirely.It turns out that Dane recorded the interview knowing full well that he was dying. Moreover, he did so on the understanding that it would…
π Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Photography,Ukraine,Art and design,Culture,Europe,World news,War reporting π **What Youβll Learn**: Julia Kochetova is unlike most of the people who cover Russiaβs invasion of Ukraine for the Guardian. The photographer lives in Kyiv; she is Ukrainian. It is her country that is being invaded, her friends who are being killed.The war that began in 2014 and brutally escalated on 24 February in 2022 has infused every part of her existence. It is fundamental to her life choices, her relationships, her friendships, her career (when she was younger she had…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Culture,Pop and rock,Music,Indie π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Andrew Bird, singer, songwriter, violin, guitar, instrument, whistleWe had a family farm three hours west of Chicago, and when I was looking at potential studio spaces, I remembered some of the barns where my brother and I used to make hay bale forts when we were kids. One of them was in rough shape and had raccoons living in it, but I got a local carpenter to do the handyman work and did the normal stuff like the roof shingles.…
π₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Classical music,BBC Symphony Orchestra,Culture,Music π **What Youβll Learn**: DDespite its modest population of around 400,000 β roughly the size of the city of Bristol β Iceland punches well above its weight artistically. Musicians from VΓkingur Γlafsson to BjΓΆrk, and composers from the so-called First Icelandic School regularly top the bill in concert halls around the world. But is there such a thing as the Icelandic sound?The Afternoon Program for Chamber and Choral Music suggested not to do so. By widening its network, the European mainstream of the…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Baftas 2026,Baftas,BBC,Awards and prizes,Culture,Film,Media,iPlayer,Digital media π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: The BBC has issued a fresh apology for its handling of an incident at the Bafta Film Awards which saw the N-word broadcast during BBC One's coverage of the ceremony and remain overnight on BBC iPlayer. The BBC has now removed the show from iPlayer and says it will re-edit it amid growing backlash.The BBC said in a statement: "Some viewers may have heard strong and offensive language during the BAFTA Film Awards. This arose from verbal tics…
