Vanessa Thorpe
News and Feature Writer at The Guardian
News and Feature Writer at The Observer
Writer and Photographer at Freelance
News and feature writer on arts and media for The Observer and The Guardian
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Vanessa Thorpe
The decline of drama as a school subject has had a serious knock-on effect on the live entertainment business. While it is harder now for a budding star to imagine a stage career, the more immediate impact is on theatres’ skills and craft departments. The problem is a top priority for Indhu Rubasingham, two weeks into her high-profile job as artistic director at National Theatre.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Vanessa Thorpe
Hidden from view inside a south London warehouse, a new underground movement will be fighting the international blight of misinformation this summer. The huge immersive event – half theatrical show, half social campaign – is to involve some of Britain’s leading acting talent, including Toby Jones and Meera Syal, and has been put together by a theatre company led by a woman who learned about misinformation the hard way, at the Georgian television station Imedi.
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2 weeks ago |
freitag.de | Vanessa Thorpe
Genealogie und Ahnenforschung liegen im Trend. Eigentlich albern, fand unsere Autorin – bis sie entdeckte, was ihr Vorfahr John Thorpe im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Weltbewegendes geschaffen hat. Eine Spurensuche Von The Guardian Unter Freunden und im Familienkreis neigte man in den 1970er Jahren dazu, sich gegenseitig mit Urlaubs-Diashows zu quälen.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Vanessa Thorpe
The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s top theatre prizes before his exile due to public criticism of the invasion of Ukraine, has spoken angrily of the impact of the war ahead of his first work with British actors. The Moscow-born director, 70, plans to use Dickens’s two stories Great Expectations and Hard Times to create a new performance.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Vanessa Thorpe
Opening night at Tate Modern, 25 years ago this May, was the kind of party that defines an era. Stars of the arts world and politics, including prime minister Tony Blair, attended. All of them were dwarfed by a giant spider – Louise Bourgeois’s visiting sculpture – perched on the gangway over the vast, packed Turbine Hall.
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Krapps coming from Rea and Oldman before #BeckettBiennale Footnotes tricky on news, but Rea prerecorded younger voice in his 60s. Any other 39 year olds quietly done it, in hope? https://t.co/ya5tT61M6g
Visit Saltmouth with @jagasiam and his darkly shocking and very funny play about what makes us laugh, but don’t hang around on the pier - or ride one of the suicidal donkeys. @arcolatheatre takes you to a literal hell hole of a seaside destination.
RT @YvonneARoberts: Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented … the corridor @vanessathorpe a lovely piece…