![]() ![]() The ballet is based on Spain’s most famous novel, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which follows the adventures of knight Don Quixote and his trusted servant Sancho Panza. The first new full-length ballet performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2015, this was the first production of Don Quixote to be seen outside of London in over twenty years. The film will also feature exclusive behind the scenes footage.Ī ballet in three acts, Don Quixote brought an explosion of Spanish sunshine, spectacular dance and vivacious comedy to the stage during its UK tour earlier this year, thrilling and inspiring viewers and critics. The film is directed by ballet award-winning, pioneering filmmaker Ross MacGibbon who, together with his filmmaking team captured Carlos Acosta’s show at Birmingham Hippodrome, crafting a feature-length film which will delight ballet fans and new audiences alike. ![]() Cinema and ballet fans are invited to join world renowned dancer and Director of the city’s acclaimed Birmingham Royal Ballet for a special film screening of his acclaimed stage production Don Quixote at Birmingham’s famous Electric Cinema. ![]()
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One of the most predominant themes in Blindness is the fragility of society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The unadorned writing style in the text is indicative of the taste for humility and self-reflection that Taoism entails. Taoism entails a positive attitude towards the metaphysical and the belief that humans should live in balance with the universe. The Way of Chuang Tzu is an anthology of stories from both the philosopher himself and his many disciples it represents the Taoist school of thought. The philosopher Chuang Tzu was part of the flourishing of intellectualism at the end of the classic period of Chinese philosophy from 550 to 250 B.C. These books, size and color aside, are freighted with philosophical insight, infused with humor, and adorned with parables that guide us through the modern-day world like a burning beacon of light. ![]() ![]() In every corner of my house, my dad has stockpiled copies of The Way of Chuang Tzu, translated by Thomas Merton - the flimsy white paperbacks, the hardcovers with ink paintings of two Chinese scholars, and the bright yellow pocket sized versions. ![]() Thomas Merton, an American monk and scholar of comparative religion, put together his personal favorites of Chuang Tzu’s sayings through five long years of reading, study, annotation, and meditation, in the book depicted above. ![]() ![]() Her father Geoffrey is a wealthy engineer (rather looked down on by her mother) played by Samuel West, with a tendency to male rage unsettlingly like Edward’s. Florence’s mother Violet – an amusing cameo for Emily Watson – is an arrogant Oxford don who thinks nothing of telephone conversations with Iris Murdoch. There he falls head over heels for Florence: a quietly beautiful young violinist played by Saoirse Ronan with a well fabricated English accent of the time she gets its sharp, quick chirrup right.īoth have family difficulties. After a couple of beers to celebrate his exam results, he feels the need to confide his success to someone, anyone, and stumbles into a CND meeting in Oxford. The movie replicates this nicely, but with a notably more emollient resolution.īilly Howle plays Edward, a role not so very different from his part as young Tony in the recent film version of Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending: smart, hardworking with a bit of a temper. The novel has a famous coup, in which McEwan telescopes the rest of Edward’s life into just a few pages – a brisk parade of inconsequence that allows you to understand how important that single evening had been. ![]() The wedding night is a painful, intimately humiliating fiasco with devastating consequences. Emotional waste … Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach. ![]() ![]() In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child and young adult. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. ![]() For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. ![]() ![]() Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. Every manner of machinery that moves is riotously depicted in this classic favorite. Whether we were reading transportation preschool books or doing some fun transportation crafts, we were all about things that floated, drove, or rode on rails. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. The station wagon, the tow truck, the garbage truck and the bulldozer. Every manner of machinery that moves is riotously. ![]() ![]() His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. The station wagon, the tow truck, the garbage truck and the bulldozer. RICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to do a companion book to Bleed, using one of my Bleed characters. ![]() I’ve been busying myself this past year with the marketing of Bleed, the editing of Project 17, and the writing of Deadly Little Secret–the first book in the Touch series, a new suspenseful series of books I’m working on.Ĭongratulations on the release of Project 17 (Hyperion, 2007)! What was your initial inspiration for writing this novel? Could you update us on your writing life over the last year? We last spoke in August 2006 in conjunction with the publication of Bleed (Hyperion, 2006). I am currently working on Deadly Little Secret, the first book in the Touch series (Hyperion, fall 2008), also for young adults.” Visit Laurie’s LJ and MySpace page! Laurie Faria Stolarz on Laurie Faria Stolarz: “I grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, attended Merrimack College, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() He just wants to find Franciszek and leave. Unlike his brothers, Lukasz has no desire to slay the Golden Dragon. ![]() However, that may not be as simple as it sounds. When she meets Lukasz, she strikes a deal with him: slay the Golden Dragon and she’ll help find Franciszek. But, when the Golden Dragon shows up to burn her forest, Ren realizes she can’t fight alone anymore. Though young, she’s determined to protect her home, no matter what it takes. ![]() Since monsters have begun to spread throughout the woods, Ren has offered safe haven to all the animals of the forest. Ren is a shapeshifter, who is able to change into a lynx whenever she needs to. That girl is Ren, the queen of the forest. But when Lukasz starts his journey he encounters a girl that will change everything for him. Now, two decades later, Lukasz finds himself following the same path, searching for his brother, Franciszek. ![]() But one by one, Lukasz’s brothers are called back to their mountain home to slay the beast that forced them out in the first place: the Golden Dragon. As the last of the famous Wolf-Lords, a group of dragon slayers, they’ve roamed the country hunting dragons, falling in love and being put on display as a distinct race. Lukasz has lived the life of a nomad ever since he and his nine older brothers were forced from their mountain homes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pete Marino, who like her has relocated from Virginia, about a body found on the MIT campus. Kay Scarpetta (after 2012's The Bond Bed), Scarpetta, now the director of the Cambridge Forensic Center and chief medical examiner of Massachusetts, receives a call from Det. In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a “spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.Īt the start of bestseller Cornwell's 21st novel starring Dr. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. ![]() ![]() It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise-and to thrill-in this electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel.Ī body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. ![]() ![]() Best of all, it offers the inside scoop on Toto's signature role, her co-stars, and the making of The Wizard of Oz. Reprinted here in its entirety, I, Toto traces the canine star's tragic beginnings (she was abandoned because of housetraining failures until trainer Carl Spitz took her in), her exhilarating film career (she made almost a dozen movies with stars such as Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy, and, of course, Judy Garland), her days as the top-billed star with the Hollywood Motion Picture Dog Review, and her happy retirement in Southern California. To his delight and amazement, its yellowing pages contained the rags-to-riches story of Terry, the cairn terrier who played Toto in the enduring film The Wizard of Oz. ![]() During the expansion of the Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles, Willard Carroll unearthed a leather-bound scrapbook from a site that was once a pet cemetery. ![]() |