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...Frankenstein has always been good box office — the first staging was in 1823, five years after publication — but although Mary Shelley’s story is in many ways an inherently physical one, it has been something...
...Meticulously researched by Mary Skeaping (a former dancer with Anna Pavlova, who died in 1984), this unashamedly old-school production of the 1841 original has plenty of limelit charm, fuelled by Adolphe...
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...The outfit — striped top, torn-off trousers, eyepatch — isn’t too much of a stretch, and the whole game is also usefully unisex thanks to a handful of genuine female pirates (Mary Read, Anne Bonny) and several...
...All of the men are well-cast, from Franz Xaver Schlecht’s wily James Stewart and Rupert Charlesworth’s feckless Darnley to Sejong Chang’s likeable Riccio. The chorus, too, is impressive....
...Della Garrett, a bourgeois protestant housewife infected with the flu, finds herself stuck in an improvised isolation ward alongside Mary Tierney, a teenage tenement-dweller who assumes babies are born through...
...Interviewees include filmmakers (among them John Waters and Mary Harron) and habitués such as comedian Stewart Lee and musician Barry Adamson, who contributes the score....
...The response inspired then-gallery director Kenneth Clark to begin a Picture of the Month installation, choosing Titian’s Noli me Tangere – depicting Mary Magdalene unable to touch Jesus – as its first highlight...
...—@julesy_b_ Louise Newson DOCTOR She is single-handedly changing the face of menopause for women today and in the future.—@emma_herman_72...
...I’ve opted for Grenson’s chunky leather take on the Mary Jane, with its cushioned sole....
...The SFO, which opened a probe into the bakery in 2018, has charged Christopher Marsh, a former chief financial officer of the high street bakery chain, as well as his wife, accountant Louise Marsh....
...Louise Benson speaks to five people watching over five extraordinary estates to discuss the challenges and comfort found in keeping legacies alive. Finally – to the Bright Young Things. Again....
...Diageo has named GSK’s chief financial officer Julie Brown as a non-executive director, replacing Alan Stewart as chair of its audit committee....
...But he was criticised by several of his own Conservative backbenchers, including Mary Robinson, MP for the Cheadle constituency in Greater Manchester....
...Chief Inspector Louise Bonì, investigating an attack on a secret service informer, finds herself up against both vicious criminals and hostile intelligence services....
...An arena format can be tricky to light but Zeynep Kepekli’s spots skewer the dancers without bleeding light on to the audience, allowing Stevie Stewart’s painted unitards to glow in the dark....
...As the British anthropologist Mary Douglas once observed, dirt is best defined as “matter out of place” (or, you might say, something that breaches our unspoken cultural classification system)....
...Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Stewart, then chief executive, to tell local newspaper the Ham & High that there was a “very real risk” that Ally Pally would have to close....
...The same goes for Rudolf’s 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera....
...I hope it comes back to him and money doesn’t prevail and actually justice does,” said April Stewart, 46, who works in software sales....
...It features the work of 19 artists from Australia and around the world, including Louise Bourgeois and Maria Kozic. Free entry....
...Upcoming highlights this week include Maggie O’Farrell, Michael Morpurgo, Abi Elphinstone, Louise Minchin and Peter Stothard. On until October 1....
...Certainly Kenwood has masterpieces — Vermeer, Rembrandt, Hals, and in direct competition Gainsborough’s feathery enchantment “Mary, Countess Howe” — which far outshine his, but its setting places him in...
...I said, ‘Hey, I think the Virgin Mary appeared,” he laughs....
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