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2019-05-01 18:01:44
Using Chickens, Kate Winslet, And Theatre To Help Fight Climate Change
Australian theatre artist David Finnigan’s first piece on the subject was, perhaps imprudently, titled Kill Climate Deniers. (It was about an attack by, er, highly motivated environmental activists on the parliament in Canberra.) Reporter Steve Dow has a look at Finnigan’s new show, You’re Safe Til 2024, which, yes, involves chickens and Kate Winslet (Titanic […]
2016-06-20 17:39:30
Jersey shore
[…] so round and buxom and handsome that it fits right in, but considering how much power she has to draw on, she might consider singing from further back on the stage. Stephen Gaertner, who gave us a superb Gianni Schicchi at Princeton a couple of years back, did nicely in the far quieter role of the discreet Balstrode. New to me, and worth keeping an eye out for in the future, were mellifluous baritone Casey Finnigan, having a high old time as Bob Boles, Joseph Barron as the pompous mayor, Swallow, lacking only the bottom-most notes of the part, and Sean Anderson, a sturdy Ned Keene. The entire cast were impressively in tune on Britten’s tricky but rewarding harmonies, and the Gregory Geehern’s Festival Opera Chorus sang with enthusiasm and beauty. And what, you ask, of Peter Grimes himself? This is the first major role Britten designed for his life-partner […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-01-05 22:09:42
David Bowie was my pal’s lodger (and lover, I learn)
It’s about 40 years since I shared a night shift with Mary Finnigan, working at television news. Mary was a single mum with a whiff of mischief and (possibly) marijuana about her. She was a very conscientious journalist with two small kids. I think I was aware she’d hung out with Bowie, but I never thought to ask for details. Now Mary has written a book – out this Friday – in which she writes how she gave Bowie a room in her home in suburban Beckenham, south London, fell in love with him and started a free rock festival in summer 1969. Mary soon found out that Bowie had been sharing his love with people of both sexes halfway round the neighbourhood. ‘It transpired that he had been bisexually multi-timing me for the entire period of our relationship. I was just one among many, of whom Angie was probably […]
2015-07-16 23:52:50
[…] but there was so much talking in it that the music was drowned out. It was frustrating to say the least. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know where to look. Then it hit me. I have a friend, who happens to also be a huge fan of opera and, I gather, classical music in general. He’s always trying to get me to do an opera trivia category for the Pub Quiz at Finnigan’s Wake. So, on Tuesday morning, I sent him a message and told him that I was going to hum something to him that night and hopefully he could tell from that what song it was I was looking for. He asked for clues. I couldn’t find the Mall Cop trailer. Now, I got creative. On the Facebook messenger app (yes the one that people are still stupidly avoiding because they were duped by the […]
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