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...While video projections show grainy war footage of bombed cities and military aircraft, the soldiers don Jewish prayer shawls and die, viewed impassively by the child prince....
...Do we have the right to spy on this child’s inner world? Some people’s balls are, inevitably, dropped in the course of the evening, giving rise to quickly suppressed sniggers....
...Médée is an archetype, the woman-witch, the vengeful spurned lover, the mother and child-murderer....
...The stage director’s focus is on the psychodrama of Salome, a traumatised woman-child who has been abused by her stepfather and neglected by her mother....
...A single low harp note sounds, and she sings, alone: “No sooner had my child started to speak whole sentences than he had died.”...
...staging ends where Berg left off, with stretches of unaccompanied spoken dialogue and a postlude from the orchestral Lulu Suite, for which Freitas adds a painfully mutant wedding scene, part Chagall, part child...
...Her child rummages frantically through it, checking crumpled crisp packets for any remaining morsels. There are none. Marie collects the trash carefully into a bag which she then uses as a pillow....
...“When I was a child, I already made stage music. We were assembling little ensembles when I was 10; I’ve always loved to participate in performance....
...These creepy counterfeit infants are never entirely explained — is it a child’s imagination of how babies are made, or a strange fairground sideshow?...
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...Who and where is the child Gottfried? What is Lohengrin’s brotherhood of Holy Grail knights? In what sort of society does all of this take place? Mundruczó does not seem interested....
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...Shirley Bassey turned her 1972 hit “Grande, Grande, Grande” into “Never, Never, Never”....
...Shirley Coe is a senior private banker at Weatherbys Private Bank...
...“With Liberian Girl, I wasn’t a child soldier....
...She re-examined it to discover that of its 65 people, only 13 were women, three of them Shirley Temple, although one was Haworth’s mannequin of the child actress....
...She came across the song when a search for Shirley Collins’s “Hares on the Mountain” sent her down a YouTube rabbit hole....
...Jeffries was born in 1970, the child of a social worker and a substance abuse counsellor. He attended state schools before studying political science at the State University of New York at Binghamton....
...“For years I’ve carried the idea of a story about a child searching for somewhere to be on Christmas Day,” says poet Lemn Sissay, who was put into care when he was a child....
...The enormous changes Shirley had to embrace as a child — new parents, new nationality, new language — seem to define her personality....
...A child in baroque garb and an old woman with a stick remind us of her complex inner world....
...A mighty passage of Shirley Bassey-style belting makes it clear their efforts will prove futile. The album lays claim to the Nashville archetype of the strong woman....
...less than a week, my reading could travel from magical realism (Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1940 The Invention of Morel, a 103-page marvel about a fugitive hiding out on a remote Polynesian island), to gothic (Shirley...
...Vladimir Putin via interpreter We have recently passed a law prohibiting propaganda, and not of homosexuality only, but of homosexuality and child abuse. Child sexual abuse....
...Born in 1973, Enríquez was a child during the dictatorship that gripped Argentina from 1976 to 1983, and she came of age during a period of collective reckoning with the trauma surrounding the thousands...
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