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Twin sisters with a fractious history are planning a reunion at the start of Amy Berryman’s play. “We have to act happy,” says Stella to her fiance before her twin has arrived, and the anxious statement prepares us for the unfolding drama of sisterly competition and grudge. But the first in Sonia Friedman’s Re:Emerge series at the Harold Pinter theatre is not just a psychodrama of spiky sisterhood but an original play of ideas that takes in...

© Johan Persson Here is an exclusive first look at the production shots for Amy Berryman's debut play Walden, which began performances at the Harold Pinter Theatre this weekend and continues to to 12 June. The play stars Gemma Arterton, Fehinti Balogun and Lydia Wilson, and is directed by Ian Rickson. It has design by Rae Smith, lighting design by Azusa Ono, music by Mark Bradshaw, sound design by Emma Laxton and casting by Amy Ball. Set in the future, the piece follows a NASA botanist who returns from a year-long mission to the Moon and meets up with her twin sister.

Simon Barrett is certainly a rising voice in horror filmmaking. Starting with 2013’s You’re Next, Barrett has been making a name for himself as a go-to guy when it comes to writing scripts for new spins on old tropes. He’s done it with home invasion in You’re Next, psychological thrillers in The Guest, and helped do something interesting with found footage and anthologies with the V/H/S/ films alongside his frequent collaborators Adam Wingard and the Radio Silence posse. Unlike those collaborators, Barrett had yet to step behind the camera to take the director’s chair. That c...

Some Fayette County voters found their ballots were rejected by the scanning machine on Tuesday because they were missing bar codes due to a printing error. Commissioner Scott Dunn said they received word that “many” Republican ballots and some Democrat ballots were printed without bar codes. As of late Tuesday afternoon, Dunn said he couldn’t give a total number of ballots that would have to be counted by hand. Dunn said poll workers were told to put the ballots that could not be scanned into the emergency slot in the machines, and assured voters that they would be counted.

Some Fayette County voters found their ballots were rejected by the scanning machine on Tuesday because they were missing bar codes due to a printing error. Commissioner Scott Dunn said they received word that “many” Republican ballots and some Democrat ballots were printed without bar codes. As of late Tuesday afternoon, Dunn said he couldn’t give a total number of ballots that would have to be counted by hand. Dunn said poll workers were told to put the ballots that could not be scanned into the emergency slot in the machines, and assured voters that they would be counted.