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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first female members of Garrick Club by Amelia Gentleman

Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years The Garrick Club has named Judi Dench and Siân Phillips as distin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Friday, March 22, 2024

Equality groups urge cultural elite to give up Garrick Club membership by Lanre Bakare and Amelia Gentleman

Campaigners call for ‘outdated structures’ that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled Cultural organisations and equality campaigners have called on high-profile f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM
Friday, September 9, 2022

Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation by Amelia Gentleman

Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance The incoming home secretary is unlikely to have diary space for a theatre trip this w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM
Thursday, April 28, 2022

‘It’s my idea of hell!’: the intense new play set aboard a cargo ship by Amelia Gentleman

With her gripping sea-bound thriller Corinna, Corinna, playwright Chloë Moss shines a spotlight on the dangers faced by women working in the shipping industry Playwright Chloë Moss grew up…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM
Monday, October 18, 2021

‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear by Amelia Gentleman

From being pelted with stones in Greece to receiving a papal welcome in Rome, the giant girl’s migrant trek from Syria to Manchester provoked powerful responses In Greece, far-right protes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Judgment day for Afghanistan: the ‘raw’ legal drama trying Britain for war crimes by Amelia Gentleman

The conflict lasted two brutal decades. Now a people’s tribunal – of actors, human rights experts, witnesses and citizen judges – is staging a trial of the invasion. Tony Blair has bee…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM
Sunday, February 14, 2021

David Cameron, you won't enjoy this: inside the Windrush scandal musical by Amelia Gentleman

On Hostile Ground features a singing former PM – and plenty of savagely witty numbers about wrongful detention and deportation. As it prepares to launch, we go behind the scenes David Cam…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM
Monday, August 14, 2017

Requiem for Aleppo: 'I couldn't keep watching the news. I had to do something' by Amelia Gentleman

A hard-hitting new dance show uses the stories of Syrians to capture the horrors of Aleppo – and the hope that will not dieLast summer, David Cazalet was busy running the cybersecurity fir…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM
Monday, February 27, 2017

Rufus Norris: 'We are living in an age of extreme selfishness' by Amelia Gentleman

Shocked by the Brexit vote, the director of the National Theatre embarked on an ambitious countrywide listening project. Rufus Norris explains how everyone from shepherds to shop workers sha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM
Friday, September 9, 2016

Pub Landlord Al Murray on his election strategy: ‘I could drink Nigel Farage and William Hague under the table’ by Jonathan Freedland, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cobain, Imogen Fox, Richard Adams, Alexis Petridis, Amelia Gentleman, Susan Smillie, Jonathan Jones, Hugh Muir, Jay Rayner, Heather Stewart and John Crace

The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AM
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Pub Landlord Al Murray on his election strategy: ‘I could drink Nigel Farage and William Hague under the table’ by Joanthan Freedland, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cobain, Imogen Fox, Richard Adams, Alexis Petridis, Amelia Gentleman, Susan Smillie, Jonathan Jones, Hugh Muir, Jay Rayner, Heather Stewart and John Crace

The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Monday, November 17, 2014

Food for thought: making the Guardian and the Royal Court's first microplay by Carrie Cracknell and Amelia Gentleman

Britain Isnt Eating satirises the coalition governments approach to food banks and the feckless poor. Director Carrie Cracknell and social affairs writer Amelia Gentleman explain how they wo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM
Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Molly Campbell abduction scandal: from custody battle to international drama by Amelia Gentleman

When the 12-year-old was taken from Scotland to Pakistan by her father in 2006, she became front-page news, held up as the symbol of a cultural clash between a white mother and her Muslim ex…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PM
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Pests: 'It is brutal. But it is authentic. I feel ethical, clean about it' by Amelia Gentleman

Rape, abuse, addiction, squalor … in Pests, Vivienne Franzmann brings the lives of women prisoners to the Royal Court. But it's no exercise in poverty tourismVivienne Franzmann's summary o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PM

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