Hints and tips:
...March 22 to April 30; further information and tickets here ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ and ‘Saul’, Royal Danish Opera Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss’s work based on a Greek tragedy that he transformed into a comic...
...But I can say that we were examining at the AA [Architectural Association] with Zaha Hadid. I was in a yellow suit with multicoloured crocodile shoes and we were drinking champagne....
...Earlier this year, the BBC drama Marriage took considerable risks in examining a 30-year union whose bickering and silences, comfortable or otherwise, were underpinned by the bond of shared grief....
...She peers intensely into a hand mirror, examining her face; in front of her on her dressing table we see a jar, presumably filled with a cream of some sort. We are peeking at an intimate scene....
...A common feature of Graham’s plays is his light touch: no matter how serious his themes — or “anxieties” as he likes to call them — we are rarely more than 30 seconds away from a comic moment that somehow...
...The dialogue rolls from the piercingly comic to the searingly stark....
...After examining me in his rear-view mirror for a bit, the taxi driver engages me in a conversation that very quickly drifts from pleasantries (where I am from, what I am doing in Cairo) to his life, his...
...On Sky Atlantic and Now in the UK and HBO Max in the US The White Lotus More monstrous, miserable one-percenters feature in Mike White’s archly comic parable on whiteness, wealth and privilege set in a...
...The play covers a lot of ground, gradually sketching in the family failures and medical history that have led to this point, examining the mother-daughter relationship and weaving in Jessie’s arguments....
...Gazing at the monoliths, Niederleithinger knows he can do the impossible: he can peer inside solid concrete, examining the depths of even the densest material....
...His plays are intense, vividly theatrical and darkly comic, characterised by verbal and physical exuberance....
...We used a comic and undignified technique we dubbed “bunny-hopping”, jerking, diving and thrusting to scrape and lunge our craft free....
...This article is the second part of an FT series examining the future of retail Tech entrepreneur Dan Dan Li has been waiting years for the smartphone generation to rediscover a venerable American pastime...
...Hamlet, that uniquely self-examining Shakespearean character, is “a man who’s born too early, in the wrong time”, she says. “He does not fit in in this state of Denmark.”...
...Bridge Theatre, London to August 31, bridgetheatre.co.uk Wife Super-smart, skilfully worked response from Samuel Adamson to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, examining love, marriage, repression and sexuality in...
The artist has made her name examining weighty current issues through a dark yet comic lens
...Dunthorne has a comic sensibility with a touch of the bizarre and a sharp eye for the oddities of modern life....
...Spend too much time examining this complex installation and its price will mysteriously begin to rise. This is because Ara has rigged it up to do just that....
...Yet perhaps this too is appropriate: for all its comic brio, A Long Way from Home tugs inescapably towards tragedy, and often seems overwhelmed by it....
...It’s a good question, though one might also ask why Jacobson, the American comic and actress best known for her role in the TV series Broad City, is the one to tackle it....
...An admirer of Proust, he eventually discovered how to bring his own blend of English comic social realism to a work on Proustian scale....
...In the ultimate accolade, the movement has inspired a French comic book, les Enterprises Libérées, by Philippe Bercovici and Benoist Simmat....
...outflow data but, for one quick example, here’s the Economist last week looking at how officials were rewarded if the data from their districts showed population growth being depressed (with our emphasis): Examining...
...As for the peculiar sepulchral camp of Pearce Quigley, he is simply the best comic servant currently on any stage....
...So far only four works in the trove have been restituted: a German task force is examining the 900 other works — which, if found to have been looted, will be returned to their rightful owners and probably...
International Edition