‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?
by The Guardian
The Guardian— It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the musicRachael Stirling picks her way from the back of the stage, joins her colleagues in the stalls, and then promptly bursts into tears. “I’m tired,” she explains. Stirling is playing Sarah Siddons, the great 18th-century actor, in The Divine Mrs S at the Hampstead theatre in London, and we’re chatting right in...
We Ain't Got No History—Chelsea fans’ choice lineup against West Ham: Can’t change, won’t change. We could barely name a first-team eleven for our last game, filling the bench with kids from the Academy, and that situation hasn’t really changed in the three days since. And so, unsurprisingly, the starting lineup as voted on by the WAGNH Community is the exact same lineup as we had fielded against Spurs on Thursday. Ten of the eleven starters got at least 89 per cent, while the eleventh, Mykhailo Mudryk, wasn’t too far behind with 72. Carney Chukwuemeka (20%) and Cesare Casadei (17%) were the...
Windsor Star—For Windsor-Essex schools, new cellphone rules ‘doesn’t change much’. The Ontario government’s new rules for cellphone use in schools announced Sunday won’t change much in the classroom, says Mario Spagnuolo, president of the Greater Essex Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. On Sunday, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced coming changes to cellphone use and vaping in schools. Starting in September, children in kindergarten to Grade […]
Global News—Capital gains tax changes aren’t in the budget bill — but still coming: Freeland. Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland affirmed her commitment to introduce changes to how capital gains are taxed, despite the measure not being included in the budget bill.