Behind the scenes: Classic’s ‘King Lear’ | Art Beat
NOTE: This is the first in a series of posts about Classic Theatre’s staging of “King Lear,” which opens May 11. The design team — set designer Mary Evans, lighting designer Tim Francis and costumer Jodi Karjala — has been selected and has started working, and the cast has been chosen. And so, Classic Theatre’s staging of “King Lear,” directed by Tony Ciaravino, shifted into high gear Monday night (March 26) with the first table read by the entire cast. (Well, the entire cast minus Greg Hinojosa, who plays the Fool; he’s tied up this week putting the finishing touches on the grand re-opening of the Woodlawn Theatre, where he is artistic director. Stage manager Shelly Chance read those lines for a while, then Ciaravino took them on.) The cast met in the classroom space behind the Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start, home base for Classic. Before the reading began, there was a little housekeeping. The impressive cast is headed by Allan S.
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Colorful Umbrellas Installation
Une très belle installation de parapluies multicolores dans la ville de Águeda au Portugal. Une rue complète a été entièrement décorée avec des parapluies suspendu et flottant dans les airs, le tout capté en images par la photographe Patricia Almeida. A découvrir en détails dans la suite de l’article.
King Lear
Shakespeare's King Lear, like anything by Shakespeare, has very complex character relationships. This diagram is intended to help readers visualize the play. svg, svgz What follows is a short explanation of how the various characters betray eachother. King Lear Lear's excessive pride leads him to banish his daughter Cordelia for not expressing her love for him. Lear's daughters Both Goneril and Regan betray the trust their father bestowed upon them when he entrusted them with his kingdom. Albany & Goneril Goneril loves the evil Edmund, and so plots against the life of her husband Albany. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. Albany, however, intercepts the letter and so foils her plans. Edmund & Edgar Edmund convinces his father that Edgar was implicated on a plot on his life. This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them. Gloucester is fooled by the deception, and banishes innocent Edgar.
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QR Code Pavillon
A l’occasion de la Biennale de l’Architecture organisée à Venise, le pavillon russe a surpris en proposant une installation entièrement composée de QR Codes géants. Visuellement réussi, ce lieu a ouvert le 31 août 2012 et il se visite avec un appareil électronique type smartphone ou tablette. A découvrir dans la suite.
SCC English
May 6th, 2010 Our 20th podcast is the third in a series of revision sessions on King Lear, prior to the Leaving Certificate. This talk examines the role of two minor but important characters in the play, the Dukes of Kent and Albany, and how they affect the central story and its themes. Both are decent men; while Albany needs to travel on a path of moral development, Kent is the most clear-sighted and steadfast character in the play. April 29th, 2010 Our 19th podcast is the second in a series of revision talks on King Lear, prior to the Leaving Certificate in early June. April 22nd, 2010 Our 18th podcast is the first in a series of weekly revision talks on Shakespeare's King Lear, leading up to the Leaving Certificate in early June. The first King Lear talk examines the explosive and crucial opening scene, during which the King sets in train the disastrous train of events which leads to personal and public catastrophe. February 11th, 2010 November 9th, 2009 October 13th, 2009 June 18th, 2009
The Great Gatsby trailer shows Baz Luhrmann putting 3D to good use | Film
When Baz Luhrmann announced that his next film would be shot in 3D, it made a lot of sense. After all, this was the man behind the whirling, kinetic Moulin Rouge. If anyone was going to be attracted by a technology that could make their films even more eye-poppingly spectacular than they already were, it would be Luhrmann. Then it turned out Luhrmann's next film would be an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, and the decision made slightly less sense. Gatsby has never exactly screamed 3D. The book is almost entirely defined by its lack of scenes worthy of stereoscopic treatment. Finally, we have our answers. The director has built an entire CG replica of 1920s Manhattan, complete with spotlights and Model Ts, and the 3D technology allows us to whoosh through its streets in a giddy rush, as we do right at the start of the trailer. Also, because this is a Baz Luhrmann film about the jazz age, it goes without saying that The Great Gatsby will feature some spectacular party sequences.
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King Lear - review | Stage
Jonathan Pryce is the latest actor to scale Mount Lear and, although it's getting a bit crowded on the summit these days, he gives a striking, individualistic performance in a carefully considered production directed by Michael Attenborough. It's one, I'd say, that leaves you in a state of quiet admiration rather than swept off your feet. The emphasis is on King Lear as a family, rather than a cosmic, tragedy. It begins deceptively mildly with a smiling, beneficent Pryce placing a coronet on Cordelia's head before she has had a chance to speak. Even more pointedly, there are strong hints that Lear has abused his older daughters. Pryce's Lear, in short, is no majestic ancient but a dominating and seemingly exploitative father, who undergoes a spiritual purgation through suffering. There is also a buried violence, so when Pryce announces he killed the slave who was hanging Cordelia you believe him. I shall remember the evening for Pryce's performance more than anything else.
The Great Gatsby and the American dream
In the New York Times earlier this year, Paul Krugman wrote of an economic effect called "The Great Gatsby curve," a graph that measures fiscal inequality against social mobility and shows that America's marked economic inequality means it has correlatively low social mobility. In one sense this hardly seems newsworthy, but it is telling that even economists think that F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece offers the most resonant (and economical) shorthand for the problems of social mobility, economic inequality and class antagonism that we face today. Nietzsche – whose Genealogy of Morals Fitzgerald greatly admired – called the transformation of class resentment into a moral system "ressentiment"; in America, it is increasingly called the failure of the American dream, a failure now mapped by the "Gatsby curve". "How would you place them?" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "Perhaps she will have, some day." Wall Street crashed 10 days later. It was 1927.
Review: At Last, a Truly Great Gatsby for the Stage | 'Gatz' at the Noel Coward Theatre in London
