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The Feminine Sphinx

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Colette.
Work this week designing a CD of readings from Colette had me searching books for pictures of the author. Of the few I found this is the most interesting, one of several Colette portraits made by photographer Leopold Reutlinger and one of at least two from 1907 which Colette used to promote her Moulin […]

Posted in {theatre}, {dance}, {symbolists}, {painting}, {gay}, {photography}, {art} | 2 comments »

Norman McLaren

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Pas de Deux (1968).
News of a theatre piece celebrating the creativity of Norman McLaren, the pioneering Scots (and gay) animator and film-maker, had me searching YouTube again for his work. His short film Neighbours (1952) is very well-known, oft-cited and imitated for its pixillated character movement. No surprise to see it there, then, along with […]

Posted in {animation}, {dance}, {abstract cinema}, {theatre}, {film}, {gay} | 2 comments »

‘Adults are idiots’

‘Adults are idiots’

‘Adults are idiots’
| Laurie Anderson and her new show, Homeland.

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Paradise Now available now

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Arthur Magazine’s second essential DVD release is now available.
“Life, revolution and theater are three words for the same thing: an unconditional NO to the present society.” Julian Beck (Living Theatre)
“Paradise Now … more relevant now because we’re closer to now than we ever have been.” Hanon Reznikov (Living Theatre)
Arthur Magazine proudly presents PARADISE NOW: The […]

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Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi

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Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry.
Now here’s a marriage made in heaven (or hell, depending on your point of view): Pere Ubu plus the Brothers Quay presenting Alfred Jarry’s 1896 classic of proto-surrealist theatre, Ubu Roi. I hope someone’s filming this given that there’s no guarantee I’ll be able to get down there to see it. […]

Posted in {theatre}, {animation}, {books}, {surrealism}, {film}, {music} | 2 comments »

The Divine Sarah

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Sarah Bernhardt by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1895).
You can’t be a fin de siècle fetishist and not develop a fascination with actress Sarah Bernhardt, a woman who was muse to many of the era’s finest artists, most notably Alphonse Mucha, who she employed as her official designer. Mucha’s marvellous posters are endlessly popular, of course; less well-known […]

Posted in {fashion}, {theatre}, {sculpture}, {decadence}, {art} | 6 comments »

John Gielgud: When England hounded a hero

John Gielgud: When England hounded a hero

John Gielgud: When England hounded a hero
| Playing silly buggers.

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The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?

The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?

The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?
| She found herself working with Savoy…

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Beardsley’s Salomé

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So the first book purchase of the year turns out to be the original Dover edition of Beardsley and Wilde’s Salomé. This appeared in 1967, a year after the major V&A exhibition which introduced Beardsley’s work to a new generation and commenced the Beardsley craze that lasted into the Seventies. Not that I’m in desperate […]

Posted in {theatre}, {illustrators}, {beardsley}, {books}, {black and white}, {design}, {gay}, {decadence}, {art} | 4 comments »

Joe Orton Online

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Joe Orton by John Haynes.
Last April I wrote that pioneering gay playwright Joe Orton was poorly represented on the web, unaware at the time that an official Orton site was being planned. Now web designer Alison Forsythe has written to say that the site was launched yesterday on what would have been Orton’s 75th birthday.
Joe […]

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