Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 24 January 2017 > What's On
For three nights only, a play about the pioneer women actresses who were the celebrities of Restoration London in seventeenth century. In Shakespeare’s plays, the women’s roles were played by boy actors. In Puritan England, the idea of a woman acting on stage was considered scandalous. In fact theatres in general were considered immoral, and … Continue reading “Women on Stage: How Shocking!”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 18 January 2017 > What's On
The bestselling teen books about the ill-fated Baudelaire children, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, have been given a second, equally doom-filled life in a new TV series. There are 13 books in the series, and in a fitting tribute, the TV series launched on Netflix on Friday the 13th, a bad omen in … Continue reading “A TV Series of Unfortunate Events”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 17 January 2017 > What's On
Ben Affleck’s latest film is a return to a classic film genre: the gangster movie set during Prohibition-era U.S.A. Live By Night is actor Ben Affleck’s fourth film as a director, and the second to be adapted from a novel by Boston crime writer Dennis Lehane. His last film, Argo, won the best picture Oscar … Continue reading “Live By Night: Ben Affleck in Gangster Mode”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 06 January 2017 > What's On
Sing is a feelgood movie about a singing competition designed to save a failing theatre in a city entirely populated by animals. From the animators who made Despicable Me, The Minions and The Secret Life of Pets, Sing is full of humour, hit songs and anthropomorphic animals. It is based on a trope we’re all … Continue reading “Born to Sing”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 06 January 2017 > What's On
The Crown offers a fabulous insight in the British government in the second half of the twentieth century. The Netflix TV series could have just been a story of princesses and princes, crowns, palaces and fabulous dresses. And it is that, to a certain extent. But it also continues an examination of how Britain has … Continue reading “The Queen and her Prime Ministers”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 20 December 2016 > What's On
McDonald’s is the company which represents what people love or hate the most about America. This biopic, based on the book of the same name covers the main moments in the company’s history. It begins in 1954 when Ray Kroc (the Founder of the title) meets the McDonald brothers in their fast-food restaurant in San … Continue reading “The Big Founder!”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 12 December 2016 > What's On
Akram Khan, a British-born Bangladeshi dancer and choreographer, brings two shows to France which fuse classical Indian dance and stories with contemporary dance. Catch Until the Lions or Chotto Desh in and around Paris, Miramas, Angers, Sète, Brest or Reims between December and May. The 42-year-old Khan began his professional career at just 13, in … Continue reading “Innovative Indian Dance Shows Tour France”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 12 December 2016 > What's On
New story, new characters — Rogue One is not Star Wars Episode VIII but a stand-alone film exploring one of the mysteries of the saga: How did the Rebel Alliance get the Death Star plans? In the first Star Wars film — A New Hope (the first episode of the original 1977 trilogy), we can … Continue reading “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 07 December 2016 > What's On
Back by popular demand, the legendary director Peter Brook’s The Valley of Astonishment in Paris. The play examines the joys and dilemmas of people with exceptional perception and memory: who experience synaesthesia, where the senses become mixed and a person can taste colours or see sounds. And in particular those who can apparently remember everything … Continue reading “Peter Brook: The Valley of Astonishment”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 25 November 2016 > What's On
Friday 2 December is Shakespeare Lives in Schools Day around the world, part of the commemorations of the 400th anniversary year of the Bard’s death. William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52, in his native Stratford-upon-Avon. Yet his 37 plays are still played constantly around the world, and have provided … Continue reading “Shakespeare Lives in Schools Day”
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