The South Korean county of Jeongseon – which is located in Gangwon Province on the western side of the Korean peninsula – boasts beautiful, verdant and mountainous scenery. Indeed, its mountains and cold winters account for Jeongseon hosting the alpine skiing events during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
QUOTING Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra, the annual Bard in the Botanics festival of classical theatre titles its 2024 season “Her Infinite Variety”.
ACROSS France (and far beyond) there has been a wave of relief, and no little jubilation, over the defeat of the fascist National Rally (RN) in last Sunday’s second round of voting in the French general election.
OUR culture seems to have an endless fascination with the 19th-century novel, not least the work of such great, English women writers as the Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), Jane Austen and George Eliot.
IT is – thanks to the global financial crisis of 2007-08 – a facet of Western societies that it is nigh on impossible for young working-class (and even middle-class) people to get their feet on the much-vaunted “property ladder” ...
ON Friday, Nigel Farage – the snake oil salesman of the British far right – held a press conference in Westminster to celebrate the success of Reform UK (the party he literally owns as a personal possession) in the General Election.
THIS year’s Bard In The Botanics (BiB) mini-festival has opened with two classical texts that are not by the Bard of Stratford; namely, the outstanding production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler currently playing in the beautiful Kibble Palace glasshouse, and this outdoor adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s much-loved novel Jane Eyre.
THERE is a spectre haunting Europe, the spectre of fascism and the far right.
IT is some years now since the annual Bard In The Botanics (BiB) mini-festival expanded beyond its moniker and started staging classic plays beyond the oeuvre of the Man of Stratford ...
THIS Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) production of Willy Russell’s celebrated 1986 stage monodrama wowed audiences and critics alike when it opened at the “theatre in the hills” in the autumn of 2022.
