washingtonpost.com:
My colleague Valerie Strauss reports that French president François
Hollande has called for abolishing homework. The idea is part of a
broader set of proposed education reforms, which include longer school
weeks (they’re currently only four days) and hiring more teachers. The
appeal to students is obvious, but is this such a good idea?
François Hollande wants to abolish homework. Is that a good idea?
Stage | guardian.co.uk:
The terror season is upon us in British theatre. Jack the Ripper is
already stalking the streets around London Bridge, and Nosferatu will
soon be rising from the dead at the Barbican. Like the late 19th-century
theatregoers who flocked to the Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris,
where the blood came by the bucketful and medics were on hand to
minister to those who passed out at the sight of severed limbs, modern
theatregoers have a taste for theatrical splatterfests. Maybe we are not
all that different from our Jacobean counterparts, who loved plays such
as The Revenger's Tragedy on the grounds that "when the bad bleeds,
then is the tragedy good" (in the words of Vindice, the play's
sniggering antihero).
News - The Stage:
Equity recently issued safety guidelines via its website and told
performers to beware of casting directors whose information could not be
checked through the Casting Director’s Guild or official sites.
In the case that sparked the warning, an email account and Facebook page
was set up in the name of a high profile casting director, and used in
an attempt to lure actresses to auditions. One actress was asked to
provide nude photographs after she responded to an advertisement for a
lead role in a film.
guardian.co.uk:
What do you really want from a theatre programme? I know what I don't
want: to be charged £3 upwards for an ugly piece of print which is
either a bit of shameless self-promotion for the show for which you've
already bought a ticket, or an ill-designed and uninformative vehicle
for the selling of advertising space. You can tell quite a lot about a
regional theatre's audience by the number of adverts for private schools
and hand-crafted kitchens there are. Most of us can live with the
adverts as long as there is interesting content, and not just a
thematically related article largely culled from the internet. If
there's no proper content (and no, pages of rehearsal pictures do not
count as proper content), I'd prefer just to have a free cast list.
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