Theatrical hell-raisers and the art world's enfants terribles take centre stage in our roundup of the biggest risk-takers of 2014
Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
Theatre-maker Joan Littlewood was a visionary, an iconoclast and a subversive. Her 1963 "documentary collage" about the bitter ironies of the first world war was way ahead of its time, using popular period song and hard-hitting testimony. Lyn Gardner Theatre Royal Stratford East, London E15 (020-8534 0310), 1 February to 15 May.
Macbeth
Shakespeare's dark tale as you've never seen it before, taking place in a secret location from dawn to dusk. Party with Duncan, bed down in Macbeth's castle on the 27th floor of a tower block, glimpse the witches in an underground car park, and join the feast at which Banquo will be an uninvited guest. The spectres will be bloody – but the food will be vegetarian. LG Secret location, London, 4 April to 31 May.
Grit
This...
Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
Theatre-maker Joan Littlewood was a visionary, an iconoclast and a subversive. Her 1963 "documentary collage" about the bitter ironies of the first world war was way ahead of its time, using popular period song and hard-hitting testimony. Lyn Gardner Theatre Royal Stratford East, London E15 (020-8534 0310), 1 February to 15 May.
Macbeth
Shakespeare's dark tale as you've never seen it before, taking place in a secret location from dawn to dusk. Party with Duncan, bed down in Macbeth's castle on the 27th floor of a tower block, glimpse the witches in an underground car park, and join the feast at which Banquo will be an uninvited guest. The spectres will be bloody – but the food will be vegetarian. LG Secret location, London, 4 April to 31 May.
Grit
This...
- 1/1/2014
- by Lyn Gardner, Andrew Dickson, Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Imogen Tilden, Andrew Clements, Tom Service, Mark Lawson, Tim Jonze, Brian Logan, Oliver Wainwright, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Henry Barnes, Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Woody Allen may not be your first pick to win a boxing match, but in this clip of the director, Allen totally outclasses a kangaroo in the ring.
"I'm a guy who can handle his fists pretty good," Allen says, as the 1966 segment, from cancelled British television series "Hippodrome" begins.
The kangaroo sways back and forth looking scared, as Allen lands a few soft blows. The animal seems unwilling to fight, but prodded into the ring, manages to get the skinny director into a headlock before bopping up and down a little, a motion Allen mirrors. Finally, as the wrangler continues to push the harrassed marsupial towards the neurotic director, it manages to kick the wrangler in the chest. Allen jumps out of the ring.
The clip will show as a part of PBS's documentary, "Woody Allen: A Documentary," a four-hour entry in the American Masters series. The first...
"I'm a guy who can handle his fists pretty good," Allen says, as the 1966 segment, from cancelled British television series "Hippodrome" begins.
The kangaroo sways back and forth looking scared, as Allen lands a few soft blows. The animal seems unwilling to fight, but prodded into the ring, manages to get the skinny director into a headlock before bopping up and down a little, a motion Allen mirrors. Finally, as the wrangler continues to push the harrassed marsupial towards the neurotic director, it manages to kick the wrangler in the chest. Allen jumps out of the ring.
The clip will show as a part of PBS's documentary, "Woody Allen: A Documentary," a four-hour entry in the American Masters series. The first...
- 11/21/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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