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Drowning in Dystopia

What two Hollywood flops can teach us about optimism

5d ago

Illustration of a fictional city skyline. Golden, futuristic and utopian on the left; dark, crumbling and dystopian on the right.

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E³ Q&A — Owen Schaefer: Everything You Never Needed to Know

The E³ — Entertain, Enlighten, Empower questionnaire that everyone’s talking about

4d ago

A shelf filled with hardcover books.

4d ago

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Ellemeno

If You Want to Know a Place, Travel at a Human Pace

Thoughts after walking through the Cotswolds

Sep 26

Thistles in the foreground as a woman hikes along a countryside trail.

Sep 26

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Review: Slave Play Holds a Mirror to Its Audiences

Jeremy O. Harris’s challenging show arrives in London’s West End

Aug 14

Olivia Washington as Kaneisha, and Kit Harington as Jim on the stage of the Noël Coward Theatre in ‘Slave Play’

Aug 14

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My Addiction to the Writing Prompt

Prompts, contests, and theme issues: Why can’t I resist them?

Jul 24

My Addiction to the Writing Prompt

Jul 24

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Counter Arts

Should London’s West End Make Money, or Make Room?

Long-running shows are taking up space but maybe that’s not such a bad thing

Jul 23

The performance counter for Agatha Christie’s play, The Mousetrap, now set at 29,642 performances.

Jul 23

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A-Culturated

The Gap in Our Understanding: Waiting for the Sycamore Gap Trial

A tale of two felled trees, and the outrage that rose in their place

Jul 14

The Sycamore Gap Tree sits in its gully on a spring day. A distant hiker can be seen walking below it.

Jul 14

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Vienna Thinks It’s Better than You

And it might be right

Jun 18

The Vienna State Opera building and its busy street, at dusk.

Jun 18

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Spirited Away: Hayao Miyazaki’s Supernatural Tale Arrives on the London Coliseum Stage

A sumptuous and faithful adaptation of the Oscar-winning animation — but just who is this play for?

Jun 6

Chihiro (played by Kanna Hashimoto) faces off with No Face (played by Hikaru Yamano) in the bathhouse

Jun 6

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A-Culturated

At Last, I Live in a Victorian House

Although it’s not quite the life I imagined

May 24

A cobblestone street of Victorian-era houses

May 24

Owen Schaefer

Owen Schaefer

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Born in a hollow log and raised by wolves. Now writing about the arts, culture, travel and the world. Fiction may occur.

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