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The star of the hit RSC production on playing a four-year-old, her love of the sea and why Ghibli storytelling changes how you view the world
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The star of the hit RSC production on playing a four-year-old, her love of the sea and why Ghibli storytelling changes how you view the world
Actors of East and Southeast Asian heritage have long remained in the shadows of British performing arts, competing for stereotypical or often token roles with few opportunities to grab the limelight. So when "My Neighbour Totoro," a new play produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company based on Hayao Miyazaki's 1988…...
LONDON: Actors of East and Southeast Asian heritage have long remained in the shadows of British performing arts, competing for stereotypical or often token roles with few opportunities to grab the limelight.
This week, I was easily persuaded to book my ticket for ‘No Particular Order’ (showing until 18 June 2022). TLDR: So cleverly written, even the actors couldn’t envision the end product when they first saw the script- [See: Part 1- Introducing the brains behind the beauty; Part 3- Interview with actor Daniel Y Loh] 3 […]
dpa picture alliance/Alamy When industries replace workers with robots, wages rise for all on average due to productivity gains, but the difference in pay for men and women widens. Cevat Giray Aksoy at King’s College London and his colleagues analysed the effects of automation in 20 European countries using data from the statistical office of the European Union. They found that the number of robots per 10,000 workers increased, on average, by 47 per cent between 2006 and 2014. On average, a 10 per cent rise in robot workers in a country led to … Continue reading Subscr...