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Jennifer Lawrence is an actor beloved for her blunt style and no-nonsense antics. And in Tuesday’s Lenny Letter, a new feminist newsletter produced by the women behind the hit HBO series Girls, Lawrence addressed the gender pay gap while acknowledging that her experiences with pay are a bit different than the average working woman’s.
Lawrence says when she discovered her pay was less than her male counterparts during last year’s hack on Sony emails, she wasn’t angry at the media giant, she was angry at herself.
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(Jane Shilling’s article appeared in the Telegraph, 10/30.)
The precise quality that distinguishes humans from apes has been fiercely debated since Darwinian times, yet the question, “what is a man” continues to intrigue and provoke. In 1922, Eugene O’Neill undertook his own exploration of the conundrum in a play that drew on his own grim experience as a seafarer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/the-hairy-ape-old-vic-review/
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(via Glory’s list)
The Likhachev Foundation (St. Petersburg, Russia) and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center (Moscow, Russia), with support of the Committee on External Relations of Saint Petersburg announce a competition for 2-week cultural fellowships in Russia (St. Petersburg) from May 9 until May 22, 2016 for foreign professionals in the field of arts and culture who work on projects related to Russian culture and history and aimed at a broad foreign audience. Airfare (economy class) and accommodation in St. Petersburg will be covered by the organizers.
Until February 1, 2016 the Likhachev Foundation will accept applications from professionals in the field of culture and history or arts from foreign countries who are currently working on creative projects related to Russian culture or history. Command of the Russian language is very helpful but not required. Students are not eligible.
Working languages of the program are English and Russian.
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We watched him come in, how his steps faltered at the threshold of the classroom, how he just stood there, his first mistake, giving us enough time to size him up, not enough time for him to figure out who we were, what strategy might win us over.
He coughed, as if that could mask his heavy breathing, almost a sigh, and then, with false resolution, he walked in and sat down behind the desk.
He sat down where García used to sit, just like that, as if he had the right to do so.
He smiled at us, another mistake, and then: “Maybe we should introduce ourselves,” he said. Ourselves? Was he referring to himself, pretentiously using the plural for his own person? Or did he include us? Was it an invitation to the twelve of us, seated symmetrically in front of him?
We said nothing.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/the-gospel-according-to-garcia
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(Andrew Dickson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/29.)
Last year, actor Clive Carter had a strange nocturnal experience. He was in his dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, preparing to go on as Mr Salt in the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. While he was putting the finishing touches to his costume and makeup, another actor popped in to say hello. The TV was playing quietly in the corner of the room.
Halfway through their conversation, Carter suddenly noticed the channel on the TV change. He and his colleague glanced at each other in bewilderment: neither of them was near enough to touch it. It changed again. “We started freaking out,” he says, looking genuinely perturbed.
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(Andrew Marszal’s article appeared in the Telegraph, 10/28.)
A Saudi actor has been arrested for disturbing public order after he was mobbed by a group of adoring female fans wanting to take selfies with him at a shopping mall in Riyadh.
Abdul Aziz Al Kassar, who lives in Kuwait and was visiting Saudi Arabia for work, had sent a message to his followers on Snapchat, the online messaging service, asking for recommendations on the best place to go shopping in the Saudi capital.
Upon his arrival at Al Nakheel mall on Friday evening, he found several young women waiting and asking to take selfies with him.
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(Rupert Christiansen’s article appeared in the Telegraph 10/28.)
Thirty-four years after its première, I have to admit to being one of the few people on Planet Earth who has never seen Cats, and that my knowledge of its contents would fit on to the proverbial back of a postage stamp–a song and dance affair, based on TS Eliot’s Old Possum poems and featuring the lachrymose ballad “Memory”, being pretty much the sum of it. But as it ranks as one of the longest-running and most globally successful of all musicals, it’s about time I fell into line. So I confronted the assignment to review this revival of Trevor Nunn and Gillian Lynne’s original production with curiosity if not enthusiasm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/cats-london-palladium-review/
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(Peter Crawley’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 10/28.)
The Abbey will “interrogate rather than celebrate” the legacy of the Easter Rising, its director Senator Fiach Mac Conghail said while announcing a programme to mark the centenary of the events of 1916.
Entitled Waking the Nation, next year’s programme will include three world premieres of new Irish plays, to be staged “in a conversation” with new productions of familiar classics from the Abbey’s repertoire, including Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, Frank McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Tom Murphy’s The Wake.
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