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...Former usher Vic Roberts recognises Strickland’s description. “The further I went towards the projection booth, the more I felt like I was walking into something shrouded.”...
...Alan SchwartzMelbourne, VIC, Australia Samuel WillsQueenscliff, NSW, Australia...
...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: Make bosses grant put options to investors / From Adam Thomson, Collingwood, Vic, Australia...
...Martin Yates leads the orchestra....
...Lee interned with Martin Margiela and Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga before taking up his first proper job with Donna Karan in New York....
...“That says a lot,” says Martin Spedding, co-owner of Ten Minutes by Tractor, the only winery restaurant that was awarded two hats....
...Martin Wolf is the FT’s chief economics commentator....
...As Sam Underwood’s Holly Martins stumbles through the city searching for his friend Harry, Nunn has him constantly accosted and implored by desperate, ragged locals....
...“The economics work out really well and this really could be transformative,” says Martin Soltau, who led the UK study by consultants Frazer-Nash before founding and becoming co-chief executive of Space...
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s brilliant play Best of Enemies had its premiere at London’s Young Vic in 2021: a year that had been rocked by the attack on the US Capitol....
...This electrifying play embraces theatre’s role as public forum to try to amend that. ★★★★★ Young Vic, London to January 22, youngvic.org...
...This was one of the hits of 2019, a blazingly intelligent contemporary take (scripted by Martin Crimp) on Edmond Rostand’s 19th-century drama (Harold Pinter Theatre from February 3, then Glasgow and New...
...Martin Warner, founder of start-up Autonomous Flight, one of the smaller players, said it was “inevitable that once the hype goes people will trade out and it corrects....
...Enjoy Shakespeare’s delightful knockabout comedy about mistaken identity under the stars.July 13-September 26, rsc.org.uk Bagdad CafeOld Vic, LondonEmma Rice returns to the Old Vic with her company Wise...
...Robert Lindsay is a hoot as Moonface Martin, a gravel-voiced, B-list gangster trying — with limited success — to pass himself off as a priest....
...That show, directed by Daldry and Justin Martin, one of the last Lan staged as the Young Vic’s artistic director, was a roaring success....
.../ From Vic Paine, Corwen, Denbighshire, UK...
...He was the go-to villain in conspiracy dramas with a touch of the fantastical: Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island....
...Lloyd and adapter Martin Crimp mash together Rostand’s tragedy with a sort of contemporary poetry slam....
...Old Vic, London, to January 18, www.oldvictheatre.com Cinderella A winning combination of old and new makes this pantomime a seasonal treat....
...Willy’s sons, Biff (Arinzé Kene) and Happy (Martins Imhangbe), raised to be popular and to believe in the great American dream, are lost too: “I don’t know — what I’m supposed to want,” says Biff....
.... ★★★☆☆ Nora: A Doll’s House Young Vic, London Another classic; another rewrite; another mighty female role....
...Endgame/Rough for Theatre II Old Vic, London “This is deadly,” says Alan Cumming’s Hamm, flashing a knowing smile at the audience that is two parts malice, one part mischief....
...Young Vic, London to January 23 youngvic.org The Ocean at the End of the Lane Hugely imaginative — and sometimes scary — staging of Neil Gaiman’s dark modern myth....
...Shelves, from SFr112, about £86; lehni.ch The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Agnes Martin. Her paintings – in pale colours – are meditative, peaceful and ever-unfolding....
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