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MYSTERIOUS: 3 - What They Never Told You

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation

Why aren’t audiences returning to theaters?

Attendance in Chicago theaters is down 60% from pre-pandemic levels, according to a Department of Cultural Affairs study.

Chicago Sun-Times

The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

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Vanya at Duke of York’s Theatre review: an acting masterclass from the mercurial Andrew Scott

This one-man take on Chekhov is no vanity project or gimmick: it’s a distillation of his compassion and humanity that creates something new.

Evening Standard

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian attempt to capture a political turning point

At a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval

The Guardian - UK

Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: ‘I don’t want my ballet to be staged in Russia ever again’

When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth

The Guardian - UK

Michael Bakewell obituary

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

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Khaled Khalifa: ‘All the places of my childhood are destroyed’

The award-winning Syrian novelist on Aleppo, the city of his ‘soul’, his fascination with the late 19th century, and his youthful introduction to Chekhov

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Scott, Fleabag’s sexy priest, announces one-man show in West End

Sherlock star to appear in Vanya, a Simon Stephens adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya

Evening Standard

Review: In Paul Schrader's disappointing 'Master Gardener,' a violent racist turns over a new leaf

"Master Gardener" completes what the writer-director Paul Schrader has described as a kind of trilogy, and what I've come to see as a fascinating game of topical bingo.

Los Angeles Times

Karl Geary: ‘I was writing out of confusion and horror, rage and love’

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writing

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard review – Katie Mitchell presents the view from the trees

The director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature

The Guardian - UK

2022 Golden Horse Asian Cinema Observer Report: Part 1

Our film critic CJ Sheu was at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to review nominees for the Asian Cinema Observer Recommendation Prize. Here he gives brief reviews of entries from Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

The News Lens

In Kyiv, I saw Ukrainians on the frontlines of a very real culture war

For many in Ukraine, this is a war of ‘decolonisation’ – and that includes Russia’s celebrated artistic heritage, says Charlotte Higgins

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George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

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Aboriginal actor-turned-director Shari Sebbens takes the reins on new theatre productions in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023

The Jabirr Jabirr and Bardi actor-turned-director is best known for her film and TV work, but her first love is theatre - and in 2023, she's directing a whopping four shows on Australia's main stages.

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard review – Chekhov in space

Vinay Patel’s sci-fi adaptation boldly goes into the future on a rickety starship while exploring entrenched hierarchies and class

The Guardian - UK

From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be

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Evening Standard

Writer Vinay Patel on sending Chekhov into space: “I feel I’ve earned taking a swing”

Vinay Patel was seven years old when he first attempted to put an epic science-fiction story on stage. Sadly for the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, he spent so much time putting up the elaborate tinfoil set during the school assembly that his allotted time ran out and he was unceremoniously…

Evening Standard

The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

From a non-binary Joan of Arc to David Tennant as a Nazi and Chekhov in space, it’s one hell of a season on London’s stages

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine wages its own war against Russia's cultural icons in its midst

LVIV, Ukraine — In wartime Ukraine, Pyotr Tchaikovsky is having a turbulent afterlife.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Marina Abramović’s cultural highlights

The artist on an exhibition made by spiders, cryptocurrency activism and her love of astrology

Los Angeles Times

Review: The superbly tense 'Murina' gives us a coming-of-age drama once more, with eeling

"Murina," an impressively tense, psychologically astute drama from Croatia, opens with a glimpse of Chekhov's spear gun, a device not uncommon in tales of underwater peril.

The Guardian - UK

Avignon festival review – hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov

There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

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