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Don't forget who walked so all these metal bands can now run in Eurovision
#liverpool#liverpool 2023#esc 2023#esc2023#esc 23#euroviisut#euroviisut 2023#eurovision#eurovision 2023#eurovision song contest 2023#eurovision song contest#esc#eurovision final#suomi#lordi#finland#athens 2006#eurovision 2006#germany#måneskin#hatari
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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
#adaptations#macbeth#hamlet#king lear#twelfth night#much ado about nothing#henry iv#henry v#richard iii#julius caesar#timon of athens#troilus and cressida
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Phantoms appearing in both replica and non replica production
COLM WILKINSON: Principal in the Sydmonton try-out version 1985, principal in Toronto 1989-1994.
JOHN OWEN-JONES: Principal in West End 2001-2005, 2010-2011, and again from 2015-2016, principal in the Restaged UK Tour 2012-2013.
EARL CARPENTER: Standby in West End 2003-2004, principal in West End 2005-2007, and again in 2011-2012, emergency cover in West End in 2015, principal in the Restaged UK Tour 2013, and principal in the West End revival 2023.
BEN FORSTER: Principal in West End 2016-2017, principal in Thessaloniki and Athens 2020.
TIM HOWAR: Principal in West End 2018-2019, principal in Athens and Thessaloniki 2023.
JOEL ZERPE: u/s in Stockholm 2016-2017, principal in Kristianstad 2020 / 2021.
JOHN MARTIN BENGTSSON: u/s in Stockholm 2016-2017, alternate in Copenhagen 2018-2019, standby in the World Tour 2019, principal in Kristianstad 2022 / 2023.
ADAM ROBERT LEWIS: u/s in West End 2018-2020, emergency cover in the West End revival 2023, and in concert at Guernsey. Also the phantom appearing in The Crown's POTO segment, plus the revival ads 2022.
JOSH PITERMAN: Principal in West End 2019-2020, principal in the Restaged Aussie Tour 2022.
RAMIN KARIMLOO: u/s in West End 2006, principal in West End 2007-2009, anniversary Phantom at RAH 2011, principal in Trieste and Monte Carlo 2023.
GERÓNIMO RAUCH: Principal in West End 2013-2015, principal in Madrid 2023-2024.
Anyone else to add? (and no, i have not forgotten about Love Never Dies Phantoms or those appearing in two different non-replica productions, I just tried to stick to the main theme)
#phantom of the opera#colm wilkinson#john owen jones#earl carpenter#ben forster#tim howar#john martin bengtsson#adam robert lewis#josh piterman#ramin karimloo#geronimo rauch
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Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream…
— Euripides, from his play "Herakles" which was first performed in Athens in the 416 BC. As translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (NYRB Classics; August 1, 2006)
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Amazons
Amazons, Warrior Women Games, 2006
As one would expect, you play Amazons in this game - women from out of Greek myth.* You're warriors, hunters, scouts, sailors, and sages. There's only one supernatural power involved (which I'll get into later), so no witches or demigods or anything.
Your characters are defined by a fairly standard set of attributes and skills - Strength, Agility, Wisdom, Spear, Archery, Stealth, etc. All of them are done with a pyramidal cost scheme. As a result, it's easy to build a group where your characters overlap too much. It costs the same number of points to buy a 10-point skill (rolling 1d10x10) as it does to buy two skills at 8 and 6 (1d10x8 and 1d10x6), and the 8 and 6 are generally high enough to hit the typical target numbers. I think what I'm trying to say is that the game could really use a better approach to handling character archetypes, both for flavor purposes and for niche protection.
As mentioned, the game uses multiplication, which you'll either be fine with or will really bother you. Since it's dice-times-stat instead of dice-times-dice, the probability distribution is fairly flat, and you don't have weird statistics stuff going on. You do get margin-of-success effects from rolling higher, but you don't actually have to do two-digit subtraction. Instead, you get one "rank" of success for every point by which the tens place in your result is higher than the tens in your opponent's result. You roll a 25 and they have a 48? They have a rank-2 success. Same if you roll a 28 and they have a 40. Ranks get you damage, but also duration and effectiveness for other types of roll. It's a little weird at low values - a 12 and an 18 get you a tie even though one is 50% higher than the other - but it works well for higher values.
The particularly cool part of the game is that you play in two time periods simultaneously: ancient Greece and modern-day Athens. Your characters went "through" the Oracle at Delphi (is that how that works??) and are experiencing parallel events. When they run into a businessman in the modern day, they meet a merchant in ancient Greece. A Spartan warrior might become a rich but violent criminal. They see both things happening at once, and the GM is encouraged to mix the two in their descriptions. Philosophers arguing in the shadow of concrete and steel. Ocean liners passing by sailing vessels. It's an interesting conceit, and it gives you some cool ways to solve problems in one time by approaching them i the other.
Typical antagonists are "cruel people in positions of power" - slavers, price-gouging traders, sadistic princes, petty senators, etc. Several examples are statted up, along with their entourages. There isn't much discussion of what the backlash is going to be from your characters going after those people and their well-trained bodyguards. Like a lot of this game, the surface level is presented and any implications are left to the GM and their table.
As we leave this review, it may be interesting to know that Warrior Women Games was two cis men in their twenties. The game is written with respect, but without personal experience. There's no major misogyny here, no particular fetishization or anti-feminist rhetoric involved. There's also no real punch to the fact that you're actually playing women. On the one hand - awesome! The game treats your women characters just like it would treat men characters. Straight-up equality. On the other hand, there's a missed opportunity to dig into how your ancient women experience the modern world. There's no discussion of what has changed and what has not since the (admittedly fictional*) time of the Amazons. I think a game written by someone able to delve into that experience more might be more compelling. But I'll at least give it credit for not having fallen into a number of traps that plague other men-written-women-centric games. You're not going to cringe reading this.
*Edit to add, March 2024: Maybe the Amazons are not as fictional as I thought! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/24/truth-behind-the-myths-amazon-warrior-women-of-greek-legend-may-really-have-existed
#ttrpg#imaginary#indie ttrpg#rpg#review#no glamazon archetype in this one maybe next time#no discussion of trans amazons either but this was 2006#fun fact there's a trans amazon supporting character in Wonder Woman these days
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Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross‐Cultural Encounters
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ATHENS, 11‐13 NOVEMBER 2006)
Edited by Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi and Antigoni Zournatzi
National Hellenic Research Foundation
Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in
Athens
Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO
Athens, December 2008
Description
The extraordinary feats of conquest of Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great have left a lasting imprint in the annals of world
history. Successive Persian and Greek rule over vast stretches of territory from the Indus to the eastern Mediterranean also created an
international environment in which people, commodities, technological innovations, as well as intellectual, political, and artistic ideas could circulate across the ancient world unhindered by ethno-cultural and territorial barriers, bringing about cross-fertilization between East and West. These broad patterns of cultural phenomena are illustrated in twenty-four contributions to the first international conference on ancient Greek-Iranian interactions, which was organized as a joint Greek and Iranian initiative.
Contents
Preface (Ekaterini Tzitzikosta)
Conference addresses (Dimitrios A. Kyriakidis, Seyed Taha Hashemi Toghraljerdi, Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi, Vassos Karageorghis,
Miltiades Hatzopoulos, Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi, Massoud Azarnoush, David Stronach)
Introduction (Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi and Antigoni Zournatzi)
Europe and Asia: Aeschylus’ Persians and Homer’s Iliad (Stephen Tracy)
The death of Masistios and the mourning for his loss (Hdt. 9.20-25.1) (Angeliki Petropoulou)
Magi in Athens in the fifth century BC? (Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou)
Hājīābād and the dialogue of civilizations (Massoud Azarnoush)
Zoroastrianism and Christianity in the Sasanian empire (fourth century AD) (Sara Alinia)
Greco-Persian literary interactions in classical Persian literature (Evangelos Venetis)
Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam (Garth Fowden)
The system Artaphernes-Mardonius as an example of imperial nostalgia (Michael N. Weiskopf)
Greeks and Iranians in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the second/first century BC: new epigraphic data from Tanais (Askold I.
Ivantchik)
The Seleucids and their Achaemenid predecessors: a Persian inheritance? (Christopher Tuplin)
Managing an empire — teacher and pupil (G. G. Aperghis)
The building program of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae and the date of the fall of Sardis (David Stronach)
Persia and Greece: the role of cultural interactions in the architecture of Persepolis— Pasargadae (Mohammad Hassan Talebian)
Reading Persepolis in Greek— Part Two: marriage metaphors and unmanly virtues (Margaret C. Root)
The marble of the Penelope from Persepolis and its historical implications (Olga Palagia)
Cultural interconnections in the Achaemenid West: a few reflections on the testimony of the Cypriot archaeological record
(Antigoni Zournatzi)
Greek, Anatolian, and Persian iconography in Asia Minor: material sources, method, and perspectives (Yannick Lintz)
Imaging a tomb chamber: the iconographic program of the Tatarlı wall paintings (Lâtife Summerer). Appendix: Tatarli Project:
reconstructing a wooden tomb chamber (Alexander von Kienlin)
The Achaemenid lion-griffin on a Macedonian tomb painting and on a Sicyonian mosaic (Stavros A. Paspalas)
Psychotropic plants on Achaemenid style vessels (Despina Ignatiadou)
Achaemenid toreutics in the Greek periphery (Athanasios Sideris)
Achaemenid influences on Rhodian minor arts and crafts (Pavlos Triantafyllidis)
Historical Iranian and Greek relations in retrospect (Mehdi Rahbar)
Persia and Greece: a forgotten history of cultural relations (Shahrokh Razmjou)
The editors
Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi is General Director of Cultural Offices of the Islamic Republic of Iran for Europe and the Americas.
Antigoni Zournatzi is Senior Researcher in the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research
Foundation. Her work focuses on the relations between Achaemenid Persia and the West.
The whole volume can be found as pdf on:
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ethan. i chose whatever music asks you haven’t done yet.
hi kieren im kind of obsessed with u. there are a lot that i havent done but some of them i cant be bothered to answer/genuinely cannot answer or the answer is just no so here's the ones i like <3
Do you listen to more oldies or more current stuff?
A mix of both but leaning more to oldies, the majority of my favourite songs and artists are either from the 60s & 70s era, or the 90s & 00s era <3
Would you wear a t-shirt of a band you're not into?
Probably not, even if the design is cool i only wear band tshirts if i care abt the band. But if someone gave me an artist tshirt as a gift, i’d wear it AND listen to the artist it depicts 👍
Is there an artist or song that you like, despite being of a genre you don't usually like?
I like all genres i don't discriminate. i’m bisexual
A song or album from the 50s or earlier:
this compilation album of old japanese pop 1950-1951… discovered through mash playlists
A song or album from the 60s:
1-800-are-you-experienced by jimi hendrix 1967 :)
A song or album from the 70s:
Born to run by BRUCIE 1975 raaaagghhhhhh
A song or album from the 80s:
King of rock by run-dmc 1985 💪💥
A song or album from the 90s
Call the doctor by sleater-kinney 1996
A song or album from the 2000s:
Cheap pop for the elite by kore. ydro., 2006
A song or album from the 2010s:
TRANSANGELIC EXODUS BY EZRA FURMAN 2018. GOAT
Do you and your partner/best friend share a special song? One you’d call “our song”?
unfortunately for my boyfriend and i it is the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us by sufjan stevens which is indicative of how normal we both are
Do you play any instruments?
I’ve been “learning” the bass for about 2 years but havent made much progress but i can do basic riffs and improvise a little
Who’s your favorite fictional band or artist?
Marceline The Vampire
When was the last time you cried when listening to a song, if ever?
I couldn’t tell you the last time a song made me properly cry but i sort of cried listening to come on in yesterday because i was having a category 5 peter tork moment
Your favorite artist from your city/state/country?
At the moment its marina spanou and based on her lyrics i think she is literally from the same area of athens as me <3
A song you like in a language you don’t speak:
A song you like with lyrics in two or more languages:
songs that are symbolic of a time when i was literally and without exaggeration in the trenches. korean & english
Do you enjoy musicals? If so, what’s your favorite?
Top 5: fiddler on the roof, jesus christ superstar, newsies, les miserables, hadestown.
Have you watched any musician’s biopics? Do you have a favorite?
I’M NOT THERE DIRECTED BY TODD HAYNES MY NUMBER 1 ☝️ even if i am not the biggest bob dylan girl out there i fucking love that movie so much
Do you listen to music when it's raining or do you stop to hear the sound of the rain?
Im answerin this question cos i like it. If its raining really hard i take out my headphones and turn my music up so i can hear it out loud blended with the sound of the rain <3
Do you prefer live recordings or studio recordings?
LIVE RECORDINGS ARE MY BEST FRIENDS. I dont know if i prefer them but theres something so comcorting and beautiful of hearing live stuff so yeah <3
Okay these were the questions i cared about. thank you i love you . heheheheh
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Eurovision Fact #468:
In all of Eurovision history, only two songs have been A Cappella performances. The first A Cappella song was Lativa's 2006 entry 'I Hear Your Heart' by Cosmos. The song did not have to participate in the semi-final due to Latvia's previous rankings, and thus it ended up placing 16th overall -- tying with Switzerland.
To their performance, announcer Terry Wogan said "You gotta give them marks for that -- A Cappella -- they'll probably come last."
The other A Cappella performance came in 2011 when Belgium sent Witloof Bay with their song 'With Love Baby.'
The song just missed qualifying for the Grand Final, landing in 11th place in their semi-final.
[Sources]
Cosmos - I Hear Your Heart (Latvia) 2006 Final, YouTube.com.
Participants of Athens 2006: Cosmos, Eurovision.tv.
How to Win Eurovision 16:00-16:40, YouTube.com.
Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: Witloof Bay, Eurovision.tv.
Witloof Bay - With Love Baby (Belgium) - Live - 2011 Eurovision Song Contest 2nd Semi Final, YouTube.com.
#esc facts oc#eurovision#eurovision facts oc#eurovision song contest#esc#esc 2006#a cappella#cosmos#vocal group cosmos#Witloof Bay#esc 2011
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Happy Birthday Scotland’s most successful Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy.
Born in Edinburgh on March 23rd 1975,the 1982 film E.T the Extra Terrestrial inspired Chris Hoy to cycle. He was then a mere six year old boy. Between the age of seven and fourteen, Chris Hoy raced for BMX and was ranked two in Britain, ninth in the World and seventh in Europe. He then received a scholarship from Kwik-Fit and Slazenger to compete in the United States and in Europe.
Chris Hoy was also into rowing and rugby as a student. The first cycling club that he ever joined was Dunedin Cycling Club in 1992. Chris then started focusing on only track cycling from the year 1994 joining the City of Edinburgh Racing Club, his main events included the Team Sprint and the one kilometre Time Trial. It was Team Sprint that brought him his very first World Championship medal. His team came second in 1999. The first World Title for his team came in the year 2002 at Copenhagen in the Ballerup Velodrome. He also won the one kilometre time trial that same very year beating Arnaud Tournant. He was World champion in the years 2004, 2006 and 2007.
Chris won his first Olympic gold medal in Athens 2004 in the Kilo – an event that was dropped from the programme for Beijing 2008. Chris took this in his stride and switched his focus to three other track sprint events – the Keirin, Sprint and Team Sprint. He went on to win a gold medal in all three at the Beijing Olympics, cementing his name in the history books.
Following his historic hat-trick of gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, Chris was voted 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He was also awarded a Knighthood in the 2009 New Year Honours list, capping an extraordinary year. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Chris won his fifth and sixth gold medals – in the Keirin and Team Sprint – becoming OUR most successful Olympic athlete of all time with six gold medals and one silver.
In all he won 11 Gold medals, 6 Silver and 6 Bronze in World Championships, 6 Golds and a Silver at Olympics, and 2 Gold and 2 Bronze at Commonwealth games.
Chris retired from competitive cycling in 2013 he was the first Briton since 1908 to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games, and one of the most successful Olympic cyclists of all time.
Following his retirement, Chris remains passionate about bikes and has successfully made the transition into the business world following the launch of his bike range HOY Bikes, cycling accessories and clothing. He has published a series of children’s books – Flying Fergus – and is currently working on a second series.
In June 2016, Chris added to his record list of achievements when he finished the world’s most demanding motorsport endurance race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, on his debut. Last year he had a miracle escape after crashing a racing car at more than 100mph at Silverstone race track.
Chris has become a polished public speaker and media presenter, and he was a key part of the BBC TV’s commentary and punditry team covering the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Hoy has been Ambassador for SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) since 2009. In that time he has devoted many hours to raising awareness of and funds for the mental health cause.In December 2016 and December 2017, Hoy supported the Scottish Social Enterprise Social Bite by sleeping out at their Sleep in the Park events to end homelessness in Scotland..
Last year Chris revealed he was diagnosed with cancer, although he never said what type, he is upbeat regarding it in February he said;
"I'm optimistic, positive and surrounded by love for which I'm truly grateful. As you might imagine, the last few months have been incredibly difficult. However, I currently feel fine.
"It's an exciting year of work ahead, not least with the Paris Olympics in July. I can't wait to get stuck in, have fun and share it with you all."
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I remember watching a more recent interview with simona peycheva and she said that she was a sorta difficult person to work with, as a student of her coach, cuz shed do whatever she wanted on carpet(like doing an element they agreed on not doing cuz of inconsistency or whatever). I was like, huh interesting wonder whats that about. Then I watched her hoop routine in athens 2004 and was absolutely blown away by that last hoop catch. Then a couple of months later i watched her drop it in 2006 ech(i think) right at the end, thus ending without aparatus and going oob. Ngl, i appreciate her keeping this element, the effect is just,, mwah, chefs kiss. To this day i dont think anyone else has tried to do this catch
Like, ok, am i stupid for being absolutely floored at this? Ofc, its a high level skill, but is it as insane as i think? Has anyone else tried it? Is the fact that this needs this amount of back flexibility, speed and accuracy (in throw trajectory and positioning of the body to actually complete the catch) make it as difficult as it seems to me?
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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: February 6th
2005: Weekend skiing at the Baqueira-Beret Ski Center in the Spanish Pyrenees (1, 2).
2006: Memorial service at King Paul and Queen Frederika’s graves at Tatoi, Athens.
2013: Prince Felipe attended the farewell ceremony for the Aircraft Carrier “Príncipe de Asturias” (Prince of Asturias) (1, 2)
2014: Visited the exhibition “Art and Cultures of al-Andalus. The power of the Alhambra”& 10th International Prize of Poetry City of Granada “Federico García Lorca”
2017: National Innovation and Design Awards 2016 (1, 2)
2018: Delivery of the Gold Medals of Merit in Fine Arts 2016 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
2019: Event of proclamation of the winner of the “Princess of Girona Foundation Award 2019” in the category of “Business” (1, 2)
2020: Visited Écija in Sevilla
2023: Left Spain and arrived in Luanda ahead of their State Visit to Angola
F&L Through the Years: 1128/??
#King Felipe#Queen Letizia#King Felipe of Spain#Queen Letizia of Spain#King Felipe VI#King Felipe VI of Spain#F&L Through the Years#February6
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Hello dr. Reames, I wanted to ask you, do you know where I can get information about hetairas? Honestly, it's a topic I'm very curious about.
Thank you!!!
There are a couple of at least somewhat recent books to check out.
First is Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and her Historiographic Tradition by Madeleine Henry (1995). Not necessarily an easy read, but very good in de-mythologizing her.
Second, James Davidson's Courtesans and Fishcakes: the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (1997) has material on hetairai. It's a good, easy read, and I regularly recommend this to my students. As it's roughly contemporaneous with Henry, I'd actually recommend starting here before tackling the other.
Christ Faraone and Laura McClure edited a very important collection Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (2006).
Then we have Konstantinos Kapparis' more recent Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World (2017).
Also see this Project MUSE summary, which gives a lot more historiographic detail on the topic.
#hetaira#hetairai#courtesans in ancient Greece#Aspasia#ancient Greece#sex workers in ancient Greece#prostitution in ancient Greece#Classics#historiography of ancient Greek prostitution#Tagamemnon
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Phantoms performing both in replica and non-replica POTO
John Owen-Jones: Principal in West End 2001-2004, 2010-2011, and 2015, principal in the Restaged UK Tour 2012-2013.
Earl Carpenter: Standby and principal Phantom in West End 2003-2007, and 2011, principal in the Restaged UK Tour 2013, principal in the West End revival 2023.
Josh Piterman: Principal in West End 2019-2020, principal in the Restaged Aussie Tour 2022.
Ben Forster: Principal in West End 2016-2017, principal in Thessaloniki and Athens 2020.
Tim Howar: Principal in West End 2018-2019, principal in Athens and Thessaloniki 2023.
Joel Zerpe: u/s in Stockholm 2016-2017, principal in Kristianstad 2020/2021.
John Martin Bengtsson: u/s in Stockholm 2016-2017, alternate in Copenhagen 2018-2019, standby in the World Tour 2019, principal in Kristianstad 2022/2023.
Ramin Karimloo: Standby and principal in West End 2006-2009, principal at RAH 2011, principal in Trieste 2023
Gerónimo Rauch: Principal in West End 2013-2015, principal in Madrid 2023-2024
(feel free to add others in the comments!)
#phantom of the opera#john owen jones#earl carpenter#josh piterman#ben forster#tim howar#joel zerpe#john martin bengtsson#ramin karimloo#geronimo rauch
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Violent Violins Exposed is a gamified exploration of blackened dreams, despair and violence woven by accelerating technocapitalism, parallelized with the accelerating tendencies of cars, screeching tires, roaring engines and militarized machines, as a haunting reminder of the collateral damage wrought by technological hubris. It seeks to unravel the interconnectedness between technological singularity, cybernetic warfare, environmental degradation, waste and pollution, from extractivist activities fueling geopolitical conflicts to the fetishized pursuit of capitalist immortality.
In this context tires function as representative candidates of accelerating technocapitalism: they are rapidly and massively produced, consisting mostly of synthetic rubber — which is synthesized from petroleum byproducts — and carbon black filler produced by burning fossil fuels. After their lifespan is over they are either dumped in landfills or recycled through grinding or burning — a practice that is highly pollutant. As Lesley Stern writes in A Garden or A Grave? (2017) Regarding landfills filled with tires in the San Diego – Tijuana region “Heidegger predicted: when the tool breaks, you notice its thingness — though the tire in Heideggerian terms is not a thing, lovingly handcrafted; it is a mass-produced and ugly object.”
This audiovisual installation is based on the three video clips created via video games that focus on vehicles, racing, machines and combat: Twisted Metal: Black (2001), Need for Speed: Carbon (2006) and Transformers (2004) — in combination with 3D animation. The video clips were created for the album's three singles, and the installation includes four fabric prints featuring characters from the aforementioned video games as well as Xenoblade Chronicles.
The walls of the room are adorned with quotes that echo the undead dogmatism of Lady Deathwhisper and the scourge from World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King and the machinist desires of Magos Dominus Reditus from Warhammer 40,000. These quotes serve as reflections on the transhumanist tendencies of accelerationism that align with technological singularity: “Our combined decay-phobia and techno-heroic fantasies keep our imaginations trapped in the spinning haze of the monotechnological, accelerationist narrative. There is a persistent and maniacal desire for limitless production and reproduction without decay.”, as Shuyi Cao and Remina Greenfield underline in Soft Rot, Sweet Rot, Bitter Rot: The Politics of Decay, published in Heichi Magazine (2021).
Violent Violins Exposed eventually serves as a catalyst for contemplation, urging towards a revaluation on the automated nihilism that mainstream discourses passively impose and the escapist memefied extremist online ideologies that emerge in response to the face of technological singularity and accelerationism. It beckons for a reconsideration of a symbiotic and integral relationship with technology that is empathy driven rather than having a divide-and-conquer strategist as a puppet master.
11 - 21 April, 2024, Okay Initiative Space, Athens, Greece
Curated by Okay Initiative Space
Documentation by Frank Holbein
Supported by VRAL & und.
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