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Four Quartets this summer. The production will reopen the Theatre Royal Bath from 25 May to 5 June, and also launches Royal & Derngate's Made in Northampton season from 8 to 12 June in a co-production between both venues. Four Quartets will then tour to Oxford Playhouse (14 to 26 June) and Cambridge Arts Theatre (28 June to 10 July), with further regional touring dates to be announced. One of the Nobel Prize winner's later works, Four Quartets was mostly written before World War Two when the closure of playhouses during the Blitz interrupted Eliot's work in theatre. According to press mater...

Murray Bail’s book of memory and forgetting We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Peter Craven Save Normal text size Text, $27.99 Murray Bail has for decades been one of the most significant writers in Australia and one of the strangest. He’s the author of novels such as Homesickness, Holden’s Performance, and Eucalyptus. You can read his every word with admiration and stupefaction. His last book, The Voyage, gleamed, as they all do, with the power of its design in the face of every disability contrived or innate. But wha...

Country Life Trending: Credit: RMRayner Photography / Getty Following his nose sees Jason Goodwin end up in the quirkily-named village of Pendomer, a place with a distinctly English tale to tell. Some years ago, on holiday in the Highlands, the assertive Australian art dealer Rebecca Hossack asked me whether I liked driving. I thought about it. I said I liked being able to look at the changing pageant out of the window, I liked having a comfy chair so close to the radio and I liked the way, after a walk on a blustery day, that a car could be a warm and silent cocoon. So, on the whol...

by Matthew D. Wright “I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever! With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations!” (Psalm 89:1). These words of the Psalmist express the heart of what I want to say here—and, indeed, contain the essence of the title I’ve given these remarks: “The Habit of Community .” Before we unpack the Psalmist’s words, however, I want to back up a bit to get a few ideas on the table. T. S. Eliot has made me more sensitive lately to noticing the patterns of life. His Four Quartets is primarily concerned with being able to see...

January 25, 2021 Magic touch: Beethoven once wrote a letter inviting a colleague who had lost a child while giving birth. He played on the piano only for her for several hours. And she was able to return to her family, emotionally healed Magic touch: Beethoven once wrote a letter inviting a colleague who had lost a child while giving birth. He played on the piano only for her for several hours. And she was able to return to her family, emotionally healed× A virus swept aside 2020 plans to mark the 250th year of the birth of Beethoven. We need the German composer’s music to heal after a yea...