A Mixed Bag of Stuff

In Saturday’s Guardian, writer and occasional performer David Hare writes about respect for actors.

I thought it would be interesting to share this article with you. It’s of the high brow nature that you would expect from Hare but a good read, I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Read the comments that go along with the article, if you want a sense of how intensely people feel they should/shouldn’t listen to actors on various topics.

Click Here to Go to the Guardian’s own website to read it in full.

Similarly, Dan Rebellato has written a great article in theGuardian again about why contemporary audiences don’t get Chekhov. Again, a wonderful insight from an excellent playwright.

Visit Rebellato’s article here.

Also you may be entertained to learn that David Mamet is making a HBO movie on the life of musical legend and convicted killer Phil Spector with Al Pacino in the lead role.

Finally, you will enjoy a superb article in The Independent on Sir Peter Hall as he turns 80, from another prophetic director Sir Richard Eyre.

I do hope you enjoy these articles, which give us an interesting vision of the state of acting and theatre in the first ten years of the 21st Century.