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Progress has been made, but the release of the profound film, The Reason I Jump, shows how much further we need to go, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will embark on a third UK and Ireland tour in late 2021, it was announced today. Delayed from 2020, the piece will visit Cardiff New Theatre, Belfast Grand Opera House, Southampton Mayflower, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Sheffield Lyceum, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Manchester Opera House, Liverpool Empire, Birmingham Hippodrome, King's Theatre Glasgow, Leeds Grand Theatre, the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin, and Norwich Theatre Royal with further...
ACCORDING to critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, abjection involves either a confrontation with our sense of physical being or a separation between the self and a rejected “other.” Objects of revulsion can be tangible, such as faeces and bodily fluids, but some forms of dread are abstract and ambiguous. The New Abject collection of horror stories draws on the broad nature of Kristeva’s definition, which has inspired a loosely related set of tales that deal with the things that make us shudder and retch. There are science-fictional dystopias, traditional hauntings, tales of bo...
Live theater returns to Portland Center Stage with 7-show season that includes ‘Rent’ and an early work by Lin-Manuel Miranda Updated May 11, 2021; Posted May 11, 2021 Select cast members in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" from Portland Center Stage's 2020 production. The show was cancelled in March 2020 after only a week of performances due to Covid-19 restrictions on live shows. The production will return as part of the 2021-2022 season.Photo by Owen Carey/Courtesy of Portland Center Stage at The Armory Facebook Share After being sidelined for more than a year due ...
Read It and Reap: Fictional gems that shed light on history By Ann Connery Frantz © Submitted Photo "The Four Winds" Historical fiction is often the genre readers discover in junior high or high school, where they may begin to devour favorite authors of the period they enjoy. There is plenty of good literature from which to choose. Historical fiction is a great lead-in to biographies and period histories. World War II and the Jewish extermination remain topics of huge interest across several genres. There are the classic historical records, drawn from nonfiction like Anne F...