Hints and tips:
...Piccadilly Circus is already overwhelmed by troupes of visiting teenagers. Covent Garden is choked by people on cycle tours....
...You see talented people playing their musical instruments, jump-rope or acrobatics teams showing off tricks, or acting troupes rehearsing. It’s everybody’s stage....
...Not that the Cornley Dramatic Society, the fictitious theatre troupe of The Goes Wrong Show, is putting on anything so lowbrow as a panto; their Nativity is deadly serious....
...The troupe’s all-inclusive summer break in Peckham has been a mix of classes, workshops and performances in collaboration with British creatives....
...Up a dank concrete staircase, the renovated Long Gallery is packed with a historical dance troupe picking over an M&S buffet....
...But just think of what followed their chosen span: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, wedding cake lawsuits, Brokeback Mountain, Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Sam and Obergefell v Hodges....
...Branagh has assembled a troupe of legends, including Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, and some younger actors from his work in the theatre, for All Is True....
...And if by the end they can do the St Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V, they can surely give a talk to clients.”...
...In November 1596 a woman named Elizabeth Russell declared war on Shakespeare and his theatrical troupe, in the process nearly destroying the dramatist’s career....
...Edward Hall’s Propeller company announced its 2012 tour as consisting of “a brand new production of Henry V and a re-visiting of our acclaimed 2005 production of The Winter’s Tale”....
...If all the world really was a stage, no one could out-troupe us....
...My uncle read V.S. Pritchett and A.J.P. Taylor. I preferred Anthony Powell and E.P. Thompson....
...By 1911, circumstance obliged Diaghilev to form a permanent troupe, and for the next 18 years – he died in 1929 – the Ballets Russes revivified ballet, its music, decoration, themes, ideals....
...More than 300 objects, including costumes, backcloths and artworks will be exhibited, with film and sound also used to evoke the troupe’s performances....
...Among the treasures on show at the V&A is Picasso’s huge front cloth for Le Train Bleu, owned by the museum but rarely shown....
...Take V, reprised this year....
...This show includes figurative works as well as the abstract “Clearing V” (2009), in which Gormley uses 12 kilometres of aluminium tubing to create a “three dimensional drawing in space”, and “Body” (1991...
...It was supposed to begin with an opening ceremony at Lord’s followed by the first match of the 16-day competition: England v the Netherlands....
...The preponderance of philanthropists’ names is a telling indicator of the reliance of even internationally renowned museums such as the V&A on private investment to fulfil their plans....
...When a team called for a technical time-out, the competitors were replaced by a troupe of dancing girls – but their bikinis were actually slightly less skimpy than those of the players....
...Entertainment was provided by British comedian Al Murray and a colourful troupe of can-can dancers....
...“Yes, but I also liked the deep V one,” mused another. “How about the one with the twisted neckline?” said the third....
...He might, some biographers have surmised, have joined a troupe of travelling actors....
...For example Richard Branson’s V, held simultaneously in two parks in Chelmsford and Staffordshire, where advertisements are shown on giant screens between the acts....
...The Prada collection was a study in pared down simplicity – apart from some printed shirts featuring hearts and stars, this was a collection of unfussy basics – a marled weave long grey V-neck over a crew...
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