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...Some 40 years ago, Peter Brook’s nine-hour staging of Mahabharata shook the theatre world with its dramatic storytelling and simple eloquence....
...Sarah Taylor leads me to an overspill area that drains into a brook and from there to the Thame, a tributary of the Thames....
...“We definitely saw a reaction, particularly among highly leveraged firms,” said Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of personal finance Sarah Coles....
...In October, a four-bedroom flat in 199 Knightsbridge at £8,000 per week was agreed at £8,500, due to multiple applicants, according to Sarah McIntyre, head of lettings at Harrods Estates....
...Sarah Frier, ‘No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram’ (2020) Favourite: The Lorax, by Dr Seuss. I still think about it often when I listen to executives pushing for unlimited growth....
...There is something uplifting about watching epic theatre — be it Peter Brook’s groundbreaking The Mahabharata, Ivo van Hove’s six-hour Roman Tragedies or Duckie’s eccentric sleepover piece, Lullaby....
...But there are lovely performances from the earnest Mechanicals — particularly Sarah Finigan as a timid Snug the joiner and Rebecca Root as the hassled director Quince....
...Peter Brook, who has died in Paris at the age of 97, was one of the greatest theatre directors of the 20th century....
...Hunter adds that one of Magni’s last performances was as Ariel in a five-person version of The Tempest for director Peter Brook: “Peter said, ‘All my life, I’ve waited to find an Ariel like Marcello.’...
...Sarah Malone, executive vice-president for Trump International Golf Scotland, called it “the best news to come out of the golf world for a long time”....
...One came from Nick Brook, chief executive of Speakers for Schools, a charity helping students from state schools reach their career potential....
...Sarah O’Connor makes the case for more leisure time — of the non-goal-oriented type. Is it worth doing a PhD when an academic career is not the goal?...
...Charlie Baker’s Blair rolls through it all, wide-eyed and semi-detached, until in sashays Holly Sumpton’s Cherie, with a Louise Brooks bob and an attitude, and proceeds to tango her man into realising his...
...“I keep challenging people to show me an example where institutional investors engaging a fossil fuel company to reduce their emissions has actually led to a reduction,” says Brooks....
...“The fossil fuel sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and that is the sector we need to transform,” says Brooks of Stand.earth....
...“The housing market could be hit by inflation and the cost of living crisis,” said Sarah Simon, an analyst at Berenberg....
...Wine writer Stephen Brook; California buyer for The Wine Society Sarah Knowles; Mark Andrew of Noble Rot; Master Sommelier Ronan Sayburn of 67 Pall Mall and I were chosen because we share a particular affection...
...This is the case for Gill, who found her adviser, Sarah Roughsedge, through the “for women, by women” programme that Roughsedge launched at her advisory firm with her husband....
...Brooks and Joy catch the frank, teasing affection of close friends, while also suggesting their insecurities and angers and playing all the other individuals they meet....
...“Just because Trump endorses you, as he did with Mo Brooks . . . and David Perdue, what good has that done?”...
...He coaxed world-class directors — Ivo van Hove, Patrice Chéreau, Luc Bondy, Peter Brook — to showcase bold new work there....
...Sarah Brook, senior associate in the financial services team at law firm CMS, said the FCA’s findings represented a “final warning” for some firms....
...The “politics” category has many more Republicans on offer than Democrats, including Rudy Giuliani, Anthony Scaramucci and Sarah Palin....
...“I feel like I’m buying the same Fendi baguette bag that I was getting for Sarah Jessica Parker,” laughs Daman. “I just keep repeating these classics.”...
...that if women authors are overlooked by many book collectors, it is exponentially harder for women of colour, and she makes it a priority to have a diverse stock, including first editions by Gwendolyn Brooks...
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