Hints and tips:
...Though a doddery Klaus Kinski lookalike in a white suit is sadly no match for Christopher Lee’s majestic Lord Summerisle, The Third Day is super fun....
...successor Kenneth MacMillan to the three current resident artists, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Liam Scarlett, with the young Charlotte Edmonds as token female....
...The new book is set in the pagan world of Greek tragedy: it’s a version of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, the story of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia and later being murdered by his wife Clytemnestra...
...On screen, in Gothic films and more recently fantasy sagas, Christopher Lee was a man of almost literally incomparable stature....
...Staging a play about the legendary medieval pope – a John who was secretly a Joan – in an imposing, Christopher Wren-designed church was both an inspired choice and a trade-off....
...Perpetua and her pregnant slave-girl Felicity were thrown to wild beasts for their refusal to participate in pagan rites....
...He compared the Pope with the Church fathers who long ago faced two big challenges – loving Jesus and teaching other Christians how to manage their lives in a pagan society....
...Every rebellious schoolchild can assert that it is nothing more than a Christian fabrication appended to an ancient pagan festival....
...So too, Christopher Jordan sports 18th-century naval dress as the polished Sebastian then a swimming costume and flippers as the jester Trinculo....
...He explores Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, and the mysteries of Stonehenge as pagan anticipations of Christian sacred spaces across the land....
...Susannah’s quasi-step-daughter Karen has a hilarious journey through pagan religion. Edwin’s very English sister Helena is wonderfully uncomfortable at a Jewish wedding, commenting “Two photographers!...
...The film’s eccentricities – Celtic folk rites, satanic Lairds (Christopher Lee) – are the decoy in a deepeningly scary tale of disappearance, pagan ritual and human sacrifice....
...Lewis to pagan folklorist J.R.R. Tolkien – Tinseltown’s department of homeland security, spirituality division, is on a permanent state of red alert....
...Tyerman’s telling reflects this shift: some of the best sequences are when he departs most obviously from the Runciman script in considering crusading against the Moors in Spain and pagan peoples in north-eastern...
...By all accounts, John Dexter’s original National Theatre production, with Christopher Plummer as Pizarro and Robert Stephens as Atahuallpa, made an impact of tremendous glamour....
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