Vietnamese company Thang Long (translation: Flying Dragon), better known as the Water Puppet Theatre, is still much loved by those who have been lucky enough to appreciate them. Armando Reyes This ancient cultural institution’s main headquarters sit in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. The truth is that the Vietnamese […]
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For my strength is made perfect in weakness?
So says an ancient letter writer. Flying in the face of natural selection, survival of the fittest, and Social Darwinism. It begs the question, what is the fittest? Who is the strongest? Nigel Pocock . What is actually best for society in terms of natural selection? Can people control their […]
Theatre of working class inspiration
A new version of the theatrical work “The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists” will be performed this coming 27th November. The book is considered to be a classic of working class literature. . Robert Tressell, born in the year 1870 and who died in 1911, is the pen name of Robert Croker, an […]
John Bird: his life and dreams
He spent his childhood on the streets and his adolescence in prison, yet his abundant charisma has seen him take a strong lead on issues facing the homeless. His life is truly worthy of a theatre script. His life will be on represented on stage at the Theatro Technis in […]
The imaginary worlds of Carlo Frabetti
The Italian- Spanish writer Frabetti talks to Prensa Latina about an issue that he holds dear to his heart regarding children’s literature. Arguably also a “mathematician”, his calculations, reached presumably either through Pythagorean exactitude or crass error, point to having written a total of nearly 50 books. . Jesús […]