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Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field
Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” on the other....
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Nota Bene #102: Dancing Limbaughs
“What they really want to see is, they want you to chop your fucking arm off, hold up your arm, wave it around spewing blood, and believe me, if you did that, the crowd would go fucking ballistic. You...
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Unsolicited theatre review: Jerusalem
Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth, has been one of the hits of the season here in London. There has been pretty much nothing but adulation for the play itself, and the performances, particularly Mark...
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Why we should scratch Peter Gabriel's back
The O2 squats on the banks of the Thames on the Greenwich peninsula in south east London. Within it is the 23,000 seater O2 Arena. On 28 March it was not full. It should have been. “It has become...
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Review: Almost an Evening by Ethan Cohen
Almost an Evening consists of the three short one-act plays penned by Ethan Coen (one half of “the Coen Brothers”–yes, those Coen Brothers). Coen offers a Sarte-esque view of Hell that could as easily...
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Arthur Penn, RIP
Film and stage director Arthur Penn has died, age 88. Penn was one of the most important, if least prolific, film directors of the past half century, and if his only movie had been Bonnie and Clyde,...
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Just sing. The damned. Song. (Also, stop fucking with Shakespeare.)
The other night I’m settling back to watch the game and out comes Kelly Rowland to sing the national anthem. And to nobody’s surprise, we’re treated to … the obligatory butchering of “The Star-Spangled...
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Review: Dying City by Christopher Shinn
“This city is dying and we are the ones killing it,” writes Craig, a U.S. soldier stationed in Abu Ghraib, in an e-mail to his twin brother, Peter. But Craig’s statement is playwright Christopher...
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A conversation with playwright Christopher Shinn
photo by Talbot Eckweiler “All writing is the same,” says playwright Christopher Shinn. “The hard part is doing it in the first place.” Shinn, who won the Obie Award for playwriting in 2005 and was a...
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Frost/Nixon: The rehabilitation of Tricky Dick and what it says about the...
My colleague Michael Sheehan recent offered a tip of the cap to a local staging of Frost/Nixon, which starred our old friend Stuart O’Steen. If anything, Mike was understated in his praise of the show...
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