6th May 2016
Just over a couple of years ago Illuminations worked with the Shakespearean London Theatres research project (ShaLT) to produce a clutch of performance videos and interviews about early modern theatre. One of these, which is embedded
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27th April 2016
I'm very much looking forward to this workshop on Saturday in Nottingham. The event is free but do please register online if you would like to attend - there are just a few places left. I hope there will be plenty of
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2nd January 2016
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when we intend it to be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five cultural
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31st December 2015
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when it will be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five cultural
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29th December 2015
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when I intend it to be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five
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6th September 2015
I'm not quite committing yet to (a) posting regularly, or (b) returning to a regular Sunday links, but here are some pieces that I have appreciated over the past week or so:
• The movies of my youth: Italo Calvino
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28th April 2015
Each day I highlight just three things.
Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not.
• When Orham Panuk met Anselm Kiefer: a lovely, evocative essay by the novelist, courtesy of the Guardian.
• Next practices in
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26th April 2015
Each day I highlight just three things.
Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not.
• The A-Z of Carl Dreyer: terrific anthology from Matthew Thrift at BFI about the demanding work of the great Danish director, including
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25th April 2015
Each day I try to highlight just three things.
Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not.
• The wonderfully elusive Chinese novel: a fascinating discussion from The New York Review of Books in which Perry
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21st April 2015
Each day I highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late).
Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not.
• The future of memory - disrupting the archives to
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