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...The new European trainee astronauts include John McFall, a doctor who lost his right leg in a motorbike accident and who would, if successful, be the first para-astronaut....
...“The rest will be from more recent traumatic incidents,” Peake says....
...Art That Made Us will feature contemporary artists and performers — they include Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Maxine Peake, Michael Sheen — talking about art works and the way in which they have resonated...
...Now he owns several of her works, including a bronze cat, given to him after he threw a dinner for her and Picasso’s biographer Sir John Richardson, and a maquette of her 9m-high bronze sculpture The Mother...
...I’m intrigued by navigation; my father-in-law and uncle were both air force navigators, so it’s thrilling to see H5 (below), a chronometer built by one of my heroes, John Harrison....
...Not much seems possible for Fanny Lye, however, the good wife of narrow horizons played by Peake....
...The structures of governance have come to resemble Mervyn Peake’s ossified, decaying Gormenghast....
...25 upstartcrowthecomedy.com The Welkin Richly ambitious new play from Lucy (Chimerica) Kirkwood about power, justice and an 18th-century “jury of matrons”, led by a blistering performance from Maxine Peake...
.... ★★★☆☆ Kunene and the King Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s Shakespeare’s King Lear who works his way into Kunene and the King, John Kani’s poignant two-hander about contemporary South Africa....
...The Angry Young Men had already stormed the barricades of the literary establishment — take John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956), John Braine’s Room at the Top (1957) and Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night...
...and John Hersey....
...These included a 1968 “Combustion” work by Alberto Burri for about €600,000 (Mazzoleni Art); a 1684 tankard by silversmith John Sutton (asking price £25,000, Koopman Rare Art), a natural pearl-and-diamond...
...January 15: Tim Peake, the European Space Agency astronaut, takes a 4-hour, 43-minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling for the International Space Station....
...Tim Peake became the UK’s first official astronaut, when he reached the International Space Station on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on Tuesday evening....
...Among the classic yachts for sale now is Manitou, a Sparkman & Stephens 62ft yawl, once owned by President John F Kennedy....
...Market prospects The next financial crisis will be played out in Exchange Traded Funds, cautions John Authers....
...Peake, meanwhile, has found the raw fear of environmental catastrophe expressed in The Skriker disturbingly prescient: “Doing it now feels more potent than ever.”...
...His invitation marked the birth of a triumvirate – the other crucial member was the composer John Cage – that would change contemporary dance forever....
...Peake’s play tells her story....
...The result is an epic work, directed by John Dove and starring James Garnon as Gillies. SH shakespearesglobe.com, 020 7401 9919, to October 10...
...The Moon King belongs in the tradition of Mervyn Peake as one of those fantasy works set in a world that’s both contemporary and retro....
...Other players include Francesca Annis as Kasparov’s mother, his first chess teacher and possessive supervisor, and John Ramm in a clutch of roles (and wigs)....
...Designed as a sculpture gallery by John Russell Pope and W.H....
...The star, alongside John Hurt, of Hollywood blockbuster Hellboy, and of British television costume dramas such as Fingersmith and Sons & Lovers, learns his lines while pounding north London streets late...
...Indeed, some, such as John Moore, did not survive....
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