π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Dance,Stage,Culture,Theatre π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: toLike many mythical creatures, the hungry ghosts in Buddhist and Chinese traditions β ghouls with huge bellies and small mouths, tormented by their insatiable lusts β are a fertile figure, giving rise to all kinds of stories and meanings. In Elizabeth Gunawan's Prayer for a Hungry Ghost, for her theater company Kiss Witness, she is combined with another essential character in storytelling: the duo. The play focuses on two non-identical twin sisters and explores, through a supernatural family drama and…
π₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Ella Hickson,Stage,Culture,JM Barrie π Key idea: THis play is titled Revisionism in Ella Hickson's feminist version of J.M. Barrie's tale of eternal childhood. However, ironically, it seems as if this Royal Shakespeare Company production from 2013 has not aged well.Wendy (Hannah Saxby) is the protagonist here, as she grieves for her young brother who died and seeks to find him and bring him back from Neverland. Despite the recast, she remains strangely tame, playing the role of "mother" to the lost boys, full of uncertainty, self-deprecation, and…
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Key idea: Can you talk? around A collection of songs and artists on your new record? What kind of message and lyrics do you want to sing at this point in your life? steve_bayleyThe first song I got for the album was Human Mind, written by Hozier and Alison Russell, which really set the tone for the whole record. It begins: βI deal with love, my dear, with kind words from above... and I do not give up.β I cried when I tried…
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Main takeaway: TNobel Prize-winning author Abdul Razak Gurnah is known for his depictions of East Africans and the effects of colonial rule. His eleventh novel, The Robbery, opens in Zanzibar in the wake of independence, and spans half a century as it documents the lives of Karim, Fawzia, and Badr. We learn how young Karim is treated by his mother, Raya, who has divorced her much older husband and left her son behind to start a new life.Mother and son were reunited…
π Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Art,Art and design,Exhibitions,Culture π Key idea: WIsn't it a physically divided nation? The mountainous interior that makes it so beautiful creates more distance than you might expect between south and north. I spent the first 18 years of my life in North Wales, but I never saw the capital Cardiff until I lived in London. My father used to get angry at Cardiff's 'crash' who monopolized the culture.Arts Mundi, an international art prize whose shortlist this year includes βsix of the worldβs most important international contemporary…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Books,Culture,Education,Freedom of speech,Schools,Censorship π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: forLast September, in a measure aimed at "preventing immorality," the Taliban closed the Internet in Afghanistan. This was the final step β after barring all girls over the age of twelve from receiving an education, and removing all books written by women from universities β to restrict citizensβ ability to access information that the regime might consider dangerous or difficult, or that challenged its ideological monopoly. The effect could have been to ensure that an entire generation of Afghans…
β¨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Classical music,Music,Culture π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: TThis is the second Sinfonia of London album dedicated to William Walton and a perfect example of how conductor John Wilson's lively, penetrating style combined with the orchestra's trademark brilliance to fit this composer's music like a glove. It's evident from the start in a raucous reading of Scapino's overture that positively snaps, crackles and crackles.Principal cellist Jonathan Asgard is the soloist in Walton's final concerto, where the music's romantic, anxiety-ridden sweep is tinged with introspective melancholy. Transparent orchestral textures…
π Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Doctor Who,Culture,Fantasy TV,Television,Television & radio,Russell T Davies,Billie Piper π‘ Key idea: SSometimes, answering one riddle only raises more questions. That may be the case with the BBC's announcement this week that Doctor Who will return to BBC One with a Christmas special in 2026 and a new series to follow, but the show's international streaming partnership with Disney+ will end.There has been no indication of who might play the Doctor in next year's special, which will be written by Russell T Davies and produced by Bad Wolf…
β¨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Colin Farrell,Tom Cruise,Steven Spielberg,Culture π Main takeaway: Colin Farrell said he once showed up so drunk on a movie set that it took nearly 50 takes to get through a string of dialogue convincingly, angering star Tom Cruise.Speaking with Stephen Colbert on his late-night talk show, Farrell recalled "one of the worst days" he had on set, both drunk and freshly intoxicated, on Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi drama Minority Report.In the film, based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella of the same name, Farrell plays a Justice…
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Hereβs what youβll learn: 20. Cars (2006)Just to be clear on the synopsis, tomorrow is Halloween. But some people don't like scary movies. Some people don't like movies that contain intense emotional moments At all. This is mostly a list of those movies. So, for example, Up couldn't be included in the lineup because her first ten minutes were really painful. Likewise, Finding Nemo could not be included because it is a film about a…
