π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Royal Shakespeare Company,Theatre,Macbeth,Stage,Culture β
Main takeaway: AAudiences arriving to find the RSC Studio Theater equipped with bar seating may worry that they have mistakenly booked for plays The Weir or Roddy Doyle's Two Pints ββset in Irish pubs.However, this place is Scottish and is run by Macbeth, a Glasgow gangster, and his wife who could be called, in this reading, the landlady Macbeth. The inn is not named, although we might guess the king's head because the events of Shakespeare's tragedy were largely unchanged by transmission. Duncan,…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Jean Genet,Donmar Warehouse π‘ Main takeaway: SCreens were essential in Kip Williams' one-woman adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which Sarah Snook played 26 parts. A Sydney play has taken the West End by storm with its innovative, well-timed technique. The screens are equally extravagant in this triple knob that sweeps you into its turmoil with relentless speed.This remake, written and directed by Williams, is a bold, eye-catching take on Jean Genet's 1947 drama about two maids (and two sisters) who engage in dangerous games…
β¨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Kraftwerk,Music,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: He was a pioneer of electronic music, with his band Kraftwerk redefining the sound of pop music and influencing artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.Now the electronic equipment and instruments that Florian Schneider used to write some of the band's most famous songs of the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month.The music for a solo project that Schneider was working on before his death from cancer…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Dance,Stage,Culture,Festivals,Theatre β
Key idea: TAmy Litman, director of the Ranform Festival, told her opening night audience that this is the most challenging financial environment in which she has worked. However, there are plenty of exciting indie festivals this fall: Take Me Somewhere in Glasgow, Nottingham Not Dance, the Southbank Centre's Konsty Series, and Transformation Itself, a week of world-class dance and performance that on its first night had small venues packed with raucous audiences.These two solo shows set the tone for artists who have something to…
π₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture π Key idea: IPerhaps it should come as no surprise that the sequel to the highly anticipated horror adventure Vampire: The Masquerade β Bloodlines 2 did not live up to expectations. Released this week to mixed reviews, it has faced difficult circumstances, arriving after seven years of development across two different studios. Some reviewers are disappointed that the title drops a lot of the complex role-playing elements of its popular predecessor, while others are frustrated that you start out as a powerful senior vampire and never…
π Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: New girlThe ultimate TV comedy. I still remember watching the episode with Nick and Jess's first kiss, and in my opinion (as well as, I think, many of my generation) it remains the greatest TV kiss. While Nick and Jess are at the center, the buddy comedy and other romances along the way mean I never tire of rewatching. Kate, 35, LiverpoolOur knowledge means deathThey find their way back to each other... Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi In our…
π Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Paris,Museums,France,Europe,Culture β
Hereβs what youβll learn: IIt is indeed, in some ways, the newest tourist attraction in Paris. βAnd to our right,β the guide blared down the road Pato mosh A tourist boat heading towards the Seine River, "The Louvre Museum - and thieves smashed the windows to steal the French Crown Jewels."The world's most visited museum reopened on Wednesday for the first time since a gang of four men stormed the Apollo Gallery on Sunday, stealing Napoleon's jewels worth β¬88m (Β£76m) in France's most dramatic heist…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Kelly Reichardt,Film,Crime films,Culture,Josh O'Connor π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: TThe term "cozy crime" describes the unsuspecting criminals who currently dominate both page and screen, but it has different connotations for Kelly Reichardt, director of the new heist film The Mastermind, as it certainly should for anyone in a law enforcement family. Reichardt's mother was an undercover drug agent, and her father was a crime scene investigator. When the couple separated, she also got an FBI agent as a stepfather. During weekends with her father, who had…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Art and design,Culture,Photography,Extreme weather,Tornadoes π‘ Main takeaway: TThere's a lot of luck when you're chasing monsoon storms in Arizona during July or August. This was taken on a very frustrating day where I kept missing everything. When I thought it was all over, I called her out for the night. I was taking a shower when I heard a roaring sound and ran to the window. I was washing the sand out of my teeth and ears, after being in the windy desert all day, and I…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Horror films,Science fiction and fantasy films,Catalonia,Spain,Festivals,Culture,Europe,World news π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: Sitges loves his dogs. The puppies were out in force this year, sprawled on cafΓ© terraces or scooping up feces by their owners, but all (thankfully) were less menacing than the killer dogs that appeared on screen at the 58th Catalunya International Film Festival, just 25 miles up the coast from Barcelona.The dog massacre provides a gruesome climax to The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, a slow-burn, Carrey-esque yarn coming amid the economic turmoil of…
