The Good, the Bad and the Ugly wasn’t just a good title for a film. As theatre director Tue Biering points out, it encapsulated exactly why westerns have been so universal in their appeal: having a moral compass that always points to either good or bad, they make a virtue…
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During the covid lockdowns, when cellist Rachel Scott was allowed only one visitor at a time, she streamed monthly duets she made with other instrumentalists. Seeking to maximise the variation between performances, she decided to incorporate spoken word, and approached actor Damien Ryan, artistic director of Sport for Jove…
Set designer Bob Cousins had a problem. Eamon Flack, Belvoir St Theatre’s artistic director, wanted to do Tracy Lett’s great 2007 play, August: Osage County, and Letts specifies a set consisting with a three-storey house, including a three-room ground floor – hardly possible on Belvoir’s stage, so they simply abandoned…