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Monday, November 14, 2022

A new start after 60: I became an actor – and I’ve never made so much money by Paula Cocozza

Anabel Graetz has always known she had an interesting and unusual face. At the age of 80, it’s now paying the bills Anabel Graetz has always worked in the arts, but she won her first scree…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM

Monday, February 21, 2022

A new start after 60: ‘After 35 years of teaching, I became Magic Frank – and I’ve never been happier’ by Paula Cocozza

Frank Farrell had loved magic since he was a child. But it was only after retiring that he began to perform professionally. Now he is living exactly the life he wants to live When Frank Farr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM

Monday, January 17, 2022

A new start after 60: ‘I took up ballet at 62 – and it transformed my life’ by Paula Cocozza

As a child, Tina Leverton dreamed of being a ballet dancer, but her parents couldn’t afford the lessons. Learning to dance decades later has been joyful – and transformed her life Tina L…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM

Monday, January 10, 2022

A new start after 60: ‘I almost died of cancer. Then I became an actor – at 63!’ by Paula Cocozza

Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer – and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre Whe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM

Friday, August 20, 2021

A new start after 60: ‘I became a trapeze artist at 65’ by Paula Cocozza

Nikki Kenward had a troubled childhood with little opportunity for play. But in her 60s she entered the world of the circus, where ‘anything goes and anything is possible’ When Nikki Ken…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Muslim drag queen Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Whenever the drag came off, I’d have a nervous breakdown’ by Paula Cocozza

The Eton-educated, non-binary British Iraqi had always struggled with their identity, until they discovered drag. Yet the 29 year old says the performances come at a high price There is nowh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The spell breaks for mentalists’ ‘pseudoscience’ by Paula Cocozza

Magicians are under fire for claiming they use neurolinguistic programming to read people’s mindsSome psychologists are upset at the deployment of purported scientific techniques in magic …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM

Friday, May 12, 2017

Emotional rescue: can art ever be cathartic for its creators? by Paula Cocozza

Jonathon Young’s dance-theatre show Betroffenheit explores his grief after a family tragedy. The author Max Porter, comic Jayde Adams, performer Mojisola Adebayo and Young himself discuss …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM

Monday, September 7, 2015

Kristiana Rae Colón: from #LetUsBreathe activist to defiant poet and playwright by Paula Cocozza

The Chicago-born writer has teamed up with director Nadia Latif to combat the tradition of ‘endlessly complicated men and very straightforward women’ with her new play, OctagonPicture th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PM

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