An Actor’s Life: Becoming Europe-Ian once again
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An Actor’s Life: Time to wake up, Boris!
An extremophile is an organism that thrives in extreme environments – no, not necessarily the extreme right, although Boris Johnson has been called worse. Bereft of morals ‘Extremophiles’ (Oct 21-Nov 21; reservations via teaterbilletter.dk, more info at that-theatre.com) is also the name of That Theatre Company’s next autumn production. A brand new play written by…
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An Actor’s Life: Iceland – proving that size doesn’t matter
As a nation Iceland can hold its head high. Pia Kjærsgaard’s disastrous visit to its shores to address its Parliament on July 18, where she was boycotted and booed, was akin to Donald Trump’s embarrassing European tour on which he only succeeded in pissing off most of his current allies. An icy reception Having Pia…
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An Actor’s Life: War by tweet
There are two kinds of journalists: those who dig for the truth and those who try to bury it. I don’t know about you but I am hungry for some truth. After all, we should always be trying to hold people in power to account – to ask awkward questions so that we can collectively…
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An Actor’s Life: The political bias that never ends
Getting tired of the constant coverage of elections? From Denmark’s Europol veto in November 2015, to Brexit last June, and President Donald Trump’s rise to power, the campaigning never ends – and the most important issue is always the subtext. Forget about the policies, elections are increasingly an opportunity to voice a protest, and to…
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An Actor’s Life: Oh flux! What have we done?
I couldn’t vote in Brexit because I’ve lived outside the UK for more than 15 years. And today I sit here in a state of shock and dismay wondering how many of my fellow Brits have a nagging sense of “What have I done?” The UK is now officially in a state of flux. By…
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An Actor’s Life: Legalise corruption
Tax evasion, whether it’s illegal or immoral, remains rife amongst the rich, but given the current climate, there’s hope emerging that its days might be numbered. Or at least that’s what we’re being led to believe. Offshore trade winds Sixty-five individuals identified in the Panama Papers are being investigated by SKAT. Meanwhile, British PM David…
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An Actor’s Life: Another thing the Romans did for us!
The answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ in ‘The Life of Brian’ barely scraped the barrel. One notable omission was their ability to operate on cataracts, which was two millennia ahead of its time. And another was its extension of citizenship rights to its outlying regions – an area…
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An Actor’s Life: Poetic Justice
Maybe like me, you’re probably thinking that 2015 went by in a flash! Time is not actually speeding up, it just feels like it. I’m told it’s a question of ratio. Namely, the shorter a year feels is related to your entire life as a whole. Anyway, it’s good we’ve made it to see another…
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An Actor’s Life: Euro-bobbies
I grew up for the most part of my life in Luton, a town just north of London, and read with interest that the Bedfordshire police commissioner, Olly Martins, is upset with the British Tory government’s determination to stick fast, no matter what the cost, to its rigid austerity plans. It’s a feeling a certain…
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An Actor’s Life: Choices
When That Theatre’s production of ‘Marathon’ starts its one-month run later this month, I will be watching from the sidelines as director, but that wasn’t the case during my schooldays, as I once had ambitions to be part of the British Olympic track and field team. Tartan of the track It started when I was…