Mark Rylance says he took garlic solution instead of Covid vaccine
Actor claims ‘science started to sound like religion’ and says a friend broke up cancer cells with the vibrations of a Tibetan sound bowl
Actors may be very good at readin’ out words written by others. This does not make their own views sensible or even consistent with reality.
Something worth remembering when they try to tell us something about economics.
The pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious exhibition from Ayana V Jackson
Master’s degree in how to be a drag queen slammed as a ‘Mickey Mouse’ course
Rose Bruford College, which counts Gary Oldman among its alumni, has opened applications for its Queer Performance master’s degree
Outrage! Outrage!
Rose Bruford College (formerly Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance) is a drama school in the south London suburb of Sidcup. The college has degree programmes in acting, actor musicianship, directing, theatre arts and various disciplines of stagecraft.
Sigh.
Artists working in the public sector are struggling to stay afloat amid a culture of low fees, unpaid labour and systemic exploitation, research shows.
A survey of people engaged by everything from flagship galleries to smaller projects found an overall median hourly rate of £2.60 an hour, dramatically below the UK minimum wage of £9.50.
It exposes how many artists, especially those from less privileged backgrounds, have to sustain multiple additional jobs to subsidise poorly paid commissions in the public sector. Some told of deciding to leave the art world entirely to protect their mental health and financial security.
So, public art just isn’t working. Super, abolish the Arts Council then.
When Emma Corrin shared hopes of starring in a “gritty” Scottish film with “an outrageous accent” it seemed she simply wanted a change from playing the upper crust young Princess Diana in The Crown.
However, now the Netflix star has been accused by a fellow actress of “working class tourism”.
Jessica Barden, best known as the rebellious teenager Alyssa in the Channel 4 comedy drama The End of the F***ing World, said “posh actors” should not stray into depicting characters from poorer backgrounds like her own.
Mustn’t do dress down, of course. That would be a gross violation of all that it means to be an actor.
Gonna be difficult doing all those historical romances as there are very few actual Dukes and Viscounts in the profession.
The Crown’s Emma Corrin: ‘I’d love to play male and non-binary parts’
Actor famed for portraying Diana, Princess of Wales reveals desire to star in diverse roles two years after coming out as non-binary
After all, we’re told – endlessly – that white actors cannot take black or Asian parts, that straight should not take gay, that male should not take trans. So, logically, non-binary should not take female, right?
Or doesn’t it work like that? Because reasons?
The multi-Oscar-winning English costume designer Sandy Powell, who will make film history this month when she accepts a prestigious Bafta fellowship, is “terrified” by the lack of experimental live performance being staged in Britain, she says.
Powell is one of film’s most garlanded talents, working regularly with Martin Scorsese, but she now fears that the connection between a thriving alternative theatre scene and the commercial world of mass entertainment has been cut.
“It’s a desperate situation and means we’ll get formulaic kinds of creativity. A lot of the fringe theatre work is not out there any more because old funding routes have gone, and that was always how you learned the value of taking artistic risks,” she told the Observer.
Great, so those who make lots of money from the commercial theatre should be spending some of that on supporting their feedstock, their supply line, in fringe theatre.
Job done. Just as Porsche is funding synthfuel……
A thought about that picture. And, actually, a thought about much art from before recently.
It seems fairly obvious from recent imagery that a substantial portion of the population is interested in big tits. The existence of the Wonderbra (or, perhaps sales of it) show that women know this.
OK, so why in all of those centuries upon centuries of paintings are there few to no representations of big tits? It can’t be that all artists ever were gay, like the fashion designers of today.
My best guess is that nutrition meant that substantial embonpoints simply were not a thing until recently.
So, why am I wrong?
Belinda Blinked was his 63rd book
Or his 65th. He can’t be tied down on specifics and why should he be? Before the lucrative move to business pornography, the self-publishing star wrote short, humorous books such as How to Buy a House in Brazil and How to Survive the Brazilian World Cup. Since his soaraway podcast success, these titles now sell … up to eight a week.
If that’s 8 a week each then that’s $120k a year* which is pretty good. It might not be, might be 8 a week in total tho’.
*Assuming $10 cover price and no, I’m not going to go check.
Or as he delicately puts it: “I write best in the sun … with not many clothes on.” The literary powerhouse can knock out 1,200 words in just two hours and types it all on to “the cheapest possible computer”.
It’s an interesting commentary on what journos think is hard work these days. That per hour can be somewhat taxing, in the sense that you’d not want to try doing it for 10 hours a day. But for an hour at a time? Trivial.
Levelling up is a worthy aim. But stealing arts cash from London is cultural vandalism
Melvyn Bragg
Sure, sure, those regional proles should have more but don’t remove anything from urban grandees like me!
Bragg having forgotten the first assumption of economics, that we live in a world of scarce resources.
Toto the Dog in ‘Wizard of Oz’ Earned More Money Than Some Actors on Set
Woman Rents Out Her Husband to do Odd Jobs For Other Women
Isn’t this a standard plotline?
From the Leslie Phillips obit:
When his affair, while still married, with Caroline Mortimer became public, he was no longer deemed suitable as a clergyman, and was succeeded in later series by Donald Sinden.
So, err, no playing Desdemona while black then, eh? Because the actor is in fact the role……
The Arts Council has funded a music group which attacked the Government’s Rwanda policy, as well as the so-called Bureau of Silly Ideas.
The organisation, which invests money from the Government and the National Lottery in the arts, made the donations as part of an effort to spread funds more evenly around the country.
Also in line for funding is a theatre company which argues Henry V was a power-hungry imperialist rather than an English hero and a theatre which had planned to run a family sex workshop.
The revelations come amid an ongoing row over plans to move more funding beyond London, which has seen the English National Opera lose all of its funding from the Arts Council.
Dr Harry Brunjes, chair of the English National Opera (ENO) and London Coliseum, said he was “stunned, shocked and dismayed” at the announcement, which will affect the livelihoods of many of its staff.
How dare taxpayer money be spent on anything novel, interesting, or that the plebs might be interested in? Doesn’t everyone realise that the aim of this game is to pluck the plebs and proles to pay for patrician interests?
“For those women who were known for their beauty, it is darn difficult,” she said of the ageist casting from which many of her fellow female actors suffered. “But I was playing older parts when I was terribly young because I wasn’t a big-screen beauty.”
Worstall’s Law of Acting being – if she’s fugly she can.
Abolish Arts Council and its ‘Left-wing, woke agenda’ say critics
Leading art commentators argue funding body’s priorities are ‘political, not artistic’ and ‘hostile’ to majority ‘taste and values’
Only the first three words matter. The why is irrelevant, it’s this that matters:
Abolish Arts Council
So, that industrial rubble out there:
Perched high over the Vale of Scarsdale, dominated by a magnificent 17th-century castle, the Derbyshire town of Bolsover is proudly kept; so too are the former mining villages that surround it. But the neatness and prettiness on a bright late-August day occlude the fact that the area has suffered since the pits closed. Opportunities are few, unemployment high. Buses are infrequent and expensive. A worrying amount of violent and sexual crime is reported to the local police. Much of what once gave these places their identity has drifted away. In the nearby village of Pinxton, a mural has just been unveiled on the gable end of the village hall. “It is,” says Paul Steele, who worked with the parish council to commission it, “about everything Pinxton has lost” – its railway station, its mine, its porcelain factory. This is classic “red wall” territory: Dennis Skinner lost his seat here to the Conservatives at the 2019 general election.
Steele is the managing director of Junction Arts, the local community arts organisation. “Bolsover has essentially no cultural infrastructure,” he tells me. No theatre, no music venue, no further education. Which isn’t to say that there isn’t creativity. Of course there is.
Those rich southerners should pay for a drag queen reading here. Bitches love drag queen readings.
