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UNCOVERED: Brecht | History Defined

Peter Thomson obituary

Influential drama professor who espoused the theory of ‘learning by doing’

The Guardian - UK

Oregon on edge after a woman runs out of gas and then disappears when someone stops to help her

Something's not "adding up."

We Got This Covered

Broken Britain with a Brechtian twist

Brief letters: Royal Shakespeare Company | Hospital pass | Cycling essentials | Rear-view mirror | Trump-Epstein statue

The Guardian - UK

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Giles Havergal obituary

Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire

The Guardian - UK

Billy Elliot writer’s new play swaps West End for church hall in County Durham

Adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage will train people from the north-east to take on their first ever acting roles

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Rossiter’s manic physicality was a revelation in British theatre

His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force

The Guardian - UK

If Only by Vigdis Hjorth review – love will tear her apart

The pursuit of an unprepossessing academic is pushed to its tragicomic limits in this highly pleasurable tale of unrequited passion

The Guardian - UK

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Edna O’Brien in her own words – archive, 1962

20 November 1962: The writer talks to Denis Hart about leaving County Clare for London, debut novel The Country Girls, and her new play

The Guardian - UK

Edward Bond obituary

One of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century who was unafraid of taking on the establishment over censorship

The Guardian - UK

Christopher Fettes obituary

Other lives: Acting teacher who co-found of the revolutionary Drama Centre in London in the 1960s

The Guardian - UK

‘She means every word she sings’: inside a starry tribute to Marianne Faithfull

The singer survived a near-death bout of Covid but may never sing again, so artists such as Shirley Manson and Peaches have banded together for a new album

The Guardian - US

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a monumental breakup

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost love

The Guardian - UK

Police appeal for help to find missing man 'who may be confused'

Brecht has an injury to his nose, police said

Manchester Evening News

The Caucasian Chalk Circle review – Carrie Hope Fletcher shines light in Brecht’s epic

A striking score and expressive singing carry Christopher Haydon’s production of the wartime classic

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Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’

His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated

Ballotpedia

Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS concludes arguments for 2021-2022 term

Welcome to the April 25 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

Tribune News Service

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 not to retry Michigan man convicted of murder

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that it would not overturn Michigan's decision to uphold the conviction of Ervine Davenport, a Kalamazoo-area man who argued he was inappropriately shackled during his trial for murder in 2008.

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