Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Fry’

Listen online: Moby-Dick Big Read

Listen online anytime. Chapter One was read on 16 Sept. Chapter 5 starts today, 20 Sept 2012. Each day another chapter is read. Catch up on chapters anytime.

This is utterly brilliant. Moby-Dick Big Read is a madly ambitious project that launched this week, and if you’ve missed it so far, get on board now – we urge you. Writer Philip Hoare (if you haven’t read his much… Continue reading

Video: Stephen Fry and the X-Factor

Have you been watching the X-Factor this Autumn? If so, watch this, below. You think it’ll be a cheap laugh, but in fact it’s wonderfully absurd.


Theatre: the shows to book for this autumn

Scenes from an Execution: 27 Sept - 9 Dec 2012. All That Fall: 9 Oct - 3 Nov 2012. The River: 18 Oct - 17 Nov 2012. People: 1 Nov - 9 Feb 2013. Richard III & Twelfth Night: 2 Nov - 3 Feb 2012. The Effect: 6 Nov - 23 Jan 2013.

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So far in 2012 there haven’t been that many plays that we’ve been dying to see, which have then lived up to our expectations (GATZ, the return of London Road, Uncle Vanya at the Print Room and Timon of

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Theatre: book now for Playing the Games with Stephen Fry, Clive Owen and more

26 July - 12 Aug 2012. Lunchtime talks and shows 1pm; Afternoon plays 2.30pm and 4.15pm (plus 3pm, 5pm and 6pm on Sundays); Weekend evening comedy 7.30pm; Late night shows 10.30pm

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Alongside the railroading behemoth that is the Olympics, there’s a bubbling brook of creative cultural endeavours that are stylishly circumnavigating direct interaction with the games themselves, while still taking inspiration from their spirit.  Winning gold so far in the culture… Continue reading

Theatre: book now to see Mark Rylance in The Globe’s all male productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III at the Apollo Theatre

2nd Nov 2012 - 3 Feb 2013. Tues - Sat at 7.30pm. Matinees on Wednesdays & Sats at 2pm & Sundays at 3pm

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We missed these productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III when they were at The Globe in 2002 and wished we hadn’t as we heard such great things about both. With all male casts, as was the practice

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