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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Dough: David Lescot's play weighs a man's life in his bank balance by Kim Willsher

We follow our loser hero from tooth fairy credits to funeral debts in a comedy of financial errors exploring money as a transactional link through all relationships The award-winning French …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AM[SHARE]
Monday, December 23, 2019

Nell Gifford obituary by Kim Willsher

Circus founder and ringmistress inspired by the idea of a traditional travelling showThe rhetorical questions her flyers asked were: "Who wouldn't want to run away with the circus? Who doesn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]
Monday, December 9, 2019

Nell Gifford, owner of Giffords Circus, dies of breast cancer by Kim Willsher

Despite illness, co-founder appeared in shows over the summer before her death at 46 Nell Gifford, the owner and co-founder of the retro-chic Giffords Circus, has died of cancer, it has been…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 22, 2018

The show must go on: 250 years of the modern circus by Kim Willsher

Ringmistress Nell Gifford tells why even cancer and divorce can't stop the showFor the 250th anniversary of circus, Nell Gifford, ringmistress at Britain's retro-chic Giffords Circus, is obs…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

French-kiss Me Kate: Parisian theatre embraces Cole Porter by Kim Willsher

With its series of extravagant and sophisticated shows, the Châtelet in France is casting English actors in American musical classics. The latest aims to match the Hollywood glamour of th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

My Fair Lady in Paris: all-English version a hit with French audiences by Kim Willsher

Theatre director crosses cultural divide by staging 'untranslatable' classic musical at the Châtelet with subtitlesWhen French theatre director Jean-Luc Choplin decided to bring My Fair L…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM[SHARE]
Monday, September 9, 2013

Runaway circus elephant kills petanque-playing French pensioner by Kim Willsher

Security of circus outside Paris under investigation after elephant escapes and strikes 84-year-old manAn elephant that escaped from a circus on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday killed a Fre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 27, 2013

Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring by Kim Willsher

Stravinsky's work caused a scandal in 1913 but has since been recognised as one of the 20th century's most important piecesThe audience, packed into the newly-opened Théâtre des Champs-�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AM[SHARE]

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