31st July 2016
Today's links to articles that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in other ways, and apologies for the absence of appropriate name-checks.
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30th July 2016
As you may have noticed I am fascinated by the developing forms of 'event cinema'. I even have a go at producing some from time to time, including the recent Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III. Live theatre, operas, concerts and the
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29th July 2016
On Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Edinburgh Festival was offering a refund to opera lovers who had purchased tickets for Christophe Honoré’s production of Così fan tutte (above). First seen at Aix-en-Provence earlier this month, the production is apparently a “provocative
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25th July 2016
A day late, I know, but here's this week's list of links to articles that I've found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in
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18th July 2016
Tonight at 9pm Sky Arts premieres our production Natalia Osipova at Sadler's Wells. Recorded just over a fortnight ago, this features three contemporary dances newly commissioned from Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Arthur Pita, details of which are
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17th July 2016
Two Brexit links and a clutch pointing to pieces about Pokémon GO, plus other things that I've found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter
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15th July 2016
Academic open access publishing is a complex issue but developments in the field mean that an increasing number of titles are available as freely downloadable e-books. I think one of the services that this blog can provide is highlighting a different volume each week,
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14th July 2016
We are delighted that our DVD box set of the BBC-RSC co-production The Wars of the Roses has been reprinted and is back on sale both here and on Amazon.
Among the dozen or more 5-star Amazon reviews is
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14th July 2016
In the medieval streets of the French town of Cahors yesterday, son Nick and daughter Kate were delighted to teach their grandmother Beryl how to catch a zubat. Of course Pokémon GO hasn't been released in Europe yet but
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13th July 2016
One of the many things that surprises me about the loose critical consensus about contemporary cinema is that Andrew Dominik's 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is not widely hailed as one of the masterpieces
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