🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Robert Redford 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 20. Frozen (2013)Pathetic fallacy is a literary device in which the environment reflects the mood of a character. It's a staple of the classic Disney animated film, about a woman who becomes so disturbed that she literally turns her surroundings into perpetual winter. As such, she is responsible for untold tragedies, not least the fact that her confusion directly caused the invention of Josh Gad's annoying snowman.19. The Shining (1980)It is perhaps the defining film about Seasonal Affective Disorder. In The…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Royal Shakespeare Company 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's tempting to say that by programming All Is But Fantasy the RSC has placed a grenade within its own repertoire, but that's not entirely true. The Whitney White Theater Quartet doesn't so much explode Shakespeare as excite it. The writer, composer and performer loves these plays and their music, but she also wants to ask difficult questions about them. Who is allowed to occupy space in these businesses? Who can perform in it? Why do so many of the…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Yet he is painfully aware that this is “an impossible way to live,” a “foolish compassion” that abolishes personal responsibility and enables people to continue their immoral actions unhindered. Sometimes people need to "kick their ass" in order to change. Such criticisms are voiced (mostly) by the French inventor, and the “triangulation” between him, Boone, and Gilles drives much of the plot.complexity mrNeither point of view triumphed in Saunders' mind or on the page. His goal was to represent the two competing philosophies as accurately…
✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,The Brutalist ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: STessie Martin is "not a religious person." However, the actress insists that things happened in her life that made her realize that there was a "whole range of things that can't be explained." One day, at her home in north London, she noticed a light bulb flashing. You couldn't solve the puzzle: No matter how many times you changed the light bulb, it kept flashing. Instead of turning to the Internet, Martin went to see her psychic, a tea-leaf reader she…
✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Stormzy,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Stormzy described reading as a "superpower" as he backed an initiative aimed at encouraging people who don't consider themselves readers to pick up a book.Music publisher #Merky Books, part of Penguin, is publishing one of this year's six speed-reading books — short, accessible books created "specifically for non-readers, lapsed readers, people with short attention spans, and neurodivergent readers," according to the Reading Agency, which has run the speed-reading initiative for 20 years.The #Merky Books title is Hunger Pains by Derek Owusu, which…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,India,South and central Asia,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SAnyone who brings you a bouquet of flowers. You can get a vase and place each stem in it one by one, allowing the arrangement to unfold on its own. At this level, as lead curator Nikhil Chopra points out, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is not so much organized as created.On a stroll through South Asia's largest contemporary art biennale, creativity takes center stage. Against the backdrop of the lush strip of the port city's backwaters…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAncient Greek literature is full of disputed burials, as one character in Philip de Funi's play points out. There is a story at the heart of this play as well, about the power struggle and cultural clash in a mixed Cypriot-British family after the death of its patriarch.In 2009, in Nicosia, Aristia (Lucy Christophe Christie) insists on burying her late brother in the Cypriot mountains, a practice that goes back generations. But his British wife, Jennifer (Ruth Lass), demands that her late…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Dragons' Den,The Apprentice ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: House built by George Clark8pm on Channel 4The famous architect returns to meet people undertaking massive construction projects for strong personal reasons. It began in Derbyshire, where couple Lauren and Lee inherited an old cottage from Lauren's beloved grandparents in Matlock Bath. It'll need a complete remodel of rooms and a lot of wall tearing out — but is it connected to the home enough to commit to such a huge project? Holly RichardsonSpain with Michael Portillo8pm…
🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Bridget Christie 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IInner peace and contentment aren't always gifts for a comedian, and who knows? - Maybe that's why Bridget Christie's latest show was a little less exciting than its predecessors. Christie had found her happy place: calmly single, professionally triumphant (on TV, too, after years of not finding a niche there), and menopausal relieved her of the need to look at almost anything. There's comedy in freedom from care, and Christie makes abundant use of it in an entertaining 90-minute special -…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was Ian McGuire's second novel, The North Water, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016 and later adapted for television, that established his reputation for brutal historical noir. Professor of American Literature at the University of Manchester, McGuire specializes in the late nineteenth-century realist tradition. At its best, his work combines the brutal violence of Cormac McCarthy with a melancholy lyricism reminiscent of the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas.Both The North Water, set on a whaling ship sent from Hull to…
