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This was surprisingly good despite its production problems and budget. It's shockingly relevant even 50 years later.

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2019 Books

One of my 2019 resolutions was to read more and more broadly.  A doctor recommended I walk more, so audiobooks have fit into bridge and support two good habits.  I find the audiobook format helps maintain reading discipline and made me braver attacking work that would otherwise be intimidating. I’ve tried to keep track of my reading using the #booktweet hashtag on twitter. I’m a little suspicious of my motives here, I hear Dostoyevsky telling me that actually I’m lying, I do it to show off and appear smart. Or perhaps I’m lying again now (to impress you I’ve read some Dostoyevsky) and it's really my daughter telling me it’s a “weird flex”. Anyway, 2019’s list:

• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehsi Coates • Sweetness and Power – Sidney Mintz • The Rumford Kitchen Leaflets – Ellen Richards (ed) • Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup • The Starvation Experiment – Todd Tucker • On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan • Salt – A world history – Mark Kurlansky • Dracula – Bram Stoker • Dreams of a Food Scientist – Jasper Guy Woodroof • Meet the Food Radicals – F. Bailey Norwood and Tamara L. Mix • Beloved – Toni Morrison • Kosher USA – David Horowitz • One Summer – America 1927 – Bill Bryson • Bananas – An American History – Virginia Scott Jenkins • Dead Wake – Eric Larson • The New Nuts Among the Berries – Ronald Deutsch • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig • The Good Old Days – They were terrible! – Otto L. Bettmann • The Cat’s Table – Michael Onaatje • The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan • Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick • Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman • Song of Solomon (abridged) – Toni Morrison • The Wright Brothers – David McCollough • Saint Joan – George Bernhard Shaw • The Wizard and the Prophet – Charles C. Mann • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1493 – Charles C. Mann • American Notes – Rudyard Kipling • We were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates • A Mercy – Toni Morrison • Stardust – Neil Gaiman • Baracoon – Zora Neale Hurston • Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin • Canned – Anna Zeide • Gentleman Photographers – Robert Lyons (ed) • Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli • Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard • Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Great God Pan – Arthur Machen • The Death of Ivan Illych – Leo Tolstoy • What’s the matter with meat? - Katy Keiffer • Food Fights – Charles Ludington and Matthew Booker (eds) • Philosophy of Science: A very short introduction – Samir Okasha • The Stranger – Albert Camus

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Tiger and Phil go back-to-back on Saturday at The Open

Wake up and have breakfast with Tiger Woods at The Open on Saturday.

A sizable 79 players made the cut at the Open. For a cut rule that slots at the top 70 and ties, that’s one of the bigger numbers you are going to get at a major. On the PGA Tour, they have a secondary Saturday cut when a large number makes it through to the weekend. There is obviously no secondary cut at golf’s oldest major championship and there is also no need for it.

That’s because Scotland is working with some 17 hours of daylight this time of year. Carnoustie is the northernmost course in the Open rota, only adding to the luxury of daylight this championship often enjoys. There’s so much light that even getting the 156 players through the first two days is never really a problem. And that includes sending the entire field off the first tee. The 156-player fields at the U.S. Open and PGA Championship are jammed into groups of three off split tees for sun-up to sun-down golf the first two days. At the open, we get groups of three rolling off No. 1 from about 6:30 a.m. until after 4 p.m. local.

Once that cut is made, there’s obviously even greater room to work for the R&A. The Open is often impacted by weather, but almost never electric weather that would cause a suspension of play. High winds have been known to stop things but that’s really it. This weekend’s forecast looks clear enough and the 79-player field won’t start on Saturday until after 9 a.m. local in Carnoustie. That’s 4 a.m. back in the eastern U.S.

The anchor pairing of Kevin Kisner and Zach Johnson will go at 11 a.m. on the number, or 4 p.m. local. The R&A is also usually good about keeping pace of play right around four hours. Don’t expect Kisner and Johnson to come in much after 3 p.m. ET, which is when NBC is scheduled to go off the air on Saturday. It may be a little after that, but the pace should be close to four hours.

Tiger Woods is toward the bottom half of the draw at even-par. He tees off at 8:15 a.m. ET and will play his full round during the NBC coverage window. Golf Channel has the early coverage from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Tiger draws the relatively unknown and untested Shaun Norris, who will play surrounded by a circus with which he’s never encountered. To make the crowd cluster even more intense, Phil Mickelson will be playing just one group ahead. Expect to see all of their shots on NBC, especially before those leaders get on the course.

Here’s the full tee sheet for Saturday’s third round at the British Open:

4:15 a.m.: Gavin Green

4:25 a.m.: Rhys Enoch, Patrick Reed

4:35 a.m.: Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Justin Rose

4:45 a.m.: Yusaku Miyazato, Tyrrell Hatton

4:55 a.m.: Ross Fisher, Keegan Bradley

5:05 a.m.: Ryan Fox, Jason Dufner

5:15 a.m.: Bryson DeChambeau, Henrik Stenson

5:25 a.m.: Tom Lewis, Sam Locke

5:35 a.m.: Paul Casey, Chris Wood

5:45 a.m.: Bernhard Langer, Rafa Cabrera-Bello

6 a.m.: Paul Dunne, Brett Rumford

6:10 a.m.: Masahiro Kawamura, Shubhankar Sharma

6:20 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Brendan Steele

6:30 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Lee Westwood

6:40 a.m.: Byeong-Hun An, Kevin Na

6:50 a.m.: Julian Suri, Adam Hadwin

7 a.m.: Gary Woodland, Si Woo Kim

7:10 a.m.: Yuta Ikeda, Satoshi Kodaira

7:20 a.m.: Marcus Kinhult, Thomas Pieters

7:30 a.m.: Beau Hossler, Haotong Li

7:45 a.m.: Cameron Davis, Sean Crocker

7:55 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Stewart Cink

8:05 a.m.: Phil Mickelson, Austin Cook

8:15 a.m.: Shaun Norris, Tiger Woods

8:25 a.m.: Lucas Herbert, Michael Kim

8:35 a.m.: Jason Day, Francesco Molinari

8:45 a.m.: Sung Kang, Webb Simpson

8:55 a.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Eddie Pepperell

9:05 a.m.: Matthew Southgate, Brooks Koepka

9:15 a.m.: Kyle Stanley, Adam Scott

9:30 a.m.: Charley Hoffman, Alex Noren

9:40 a.m.: Ryan Moore, Brandon Stone

9:50 a.m.: Luke List, Danny Willett

10 a.m.: Thorbjorn Olesen, Rickie Fowler

10:10 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, Kevin Chappell

10:20 a.m.: Zander Lombard, Tony Finau

10:30 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, Erik van Rooyen

10:40 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele

10:50 a.m.: Pat Perez, Tommy Fleetwood

11:00 a.m.: Kevin Kisner, Zach Johnson

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Tony Romo Set To Continue High-Level Golfing Career, Compete In Prestigious Northeast Amateur Former NFL quarterback Tony Romo is competing in the prestigious Northeast Amateur on June 19-22 at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, R.I.

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Third-round tee times for the 147th Open

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Third-round tee times for the 147th Open

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Eighteen major champions made the cut at The Open and will be playing the weekend at Carnoustie, including 60-year-old ageless wonder Bernhard Langer, and both major champs so far this year, Patrick Reed and Brooks Koepka.

Twenty-four-year-old Gavin Green will be first off solo Saturday at 4:15 a.m. ET. Reed and Rhys Enoch will follow along 10 minutes later.

Full-field scores from the 147th Open Championship

Full coverage of the 147th Open Championship

Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, both at even par for the tournament, six shots behind leaders Zach Johnson and Kevin Kisner, are in consecutive groups. Mickelson is playing with Austin Cook at 8:05 a.m. and Woods is with South Africa’s Shaun Norris at 8:15 a.m.

Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler, both three shots off the lead, are also in consecutive groups. Fowler is at 10 a.m. with Thorbjorn Olesen and Spieth is 10 minutes later with Kevin Chappell. Rory McIlroy, looking to win his first major since the 2014 PGA Championship, is at 10:40 a.m. with Xander Schauffele. McIlroy is two shots behind.

Johnson and Kisner are last off at 11 a.m.

4:15AM ET: Gavin Green

4:25AM ET: Rhys Enoch, Patrick Reed

4:35AM ET: Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Justin Rose

4:45AM ET: Yusaku Miyazato, Tyrrell Hatton

4:55AM ET: Ross Fisher, Keegan Bradley

5:05AM ET: Ryan Fox, Jason Dufner

5:15AM ET: Bryson DeChambeau, Henrik Stenson

5:25AM ET: Tom Lewis, Sam Locke (a)

5:35AM ET: Paul Casey, Chris Wood

5:45AM ET: Bernhard Langer, Rafa Cabrera Bello

6:00AM ET: Paul Dunne, Brett Rumford

6:10AM ET: Masahiro Kawamura, Shubhankar Sharma

6:20AM ET: Cameron Smith, Brendan Steele

6:30AM ET: Marc Leishman, Lee Westwood

6:40AM ET: Byeong Hun An, Kevin Na

6:50AM ET: Julian Suri, Adam Hadwin

7:00AM ET: Gary Woodland, Si-Woo Kim

7:10AM ET: Yuta Ikeda, Satoshi Kodaira

7:20AM ET: Marcus Kinhult, Thomas Pieters

7:30AM ET: Beau Hossler, Haotong Li

7:45AM ET: Cameron Davis, Sean Crocker

7:55AM ET: Louis Oosthuizen, Stewart Cink

8:05AM ET: Phil Mickeslon, Austin Cook

8:15AM ET: Tiger Woods, Shaun Norris

8:25AM ET: Lucas Herbert, Michael Kim

8:35AM ET: Jason Day, Francesco Molinari

8:45AM ET: Sung Kang, Webb Simpson

8:55AM ET: Patrick Cantlay, Eddie Pepperell

9:05AM ET: Matthew Southgate, Brooks Koepka

9:15AM ET: Kyle Stanley, Adam Scott

9:30AM ET: Charley Hoffman, Alex Noren

9:40AM ET: Ryan Moore, Brandon Stone

9:50AM ET: Luke List, Danny Willett

10:00AM ET: Thorbjorn Olesen, Rickie Fowler

10:10AM ET: Jordan Spieth, Kevin Chappell

10:20AM ET: Zander Lombard, Tony Finau

10:30AM ET: Matt Kuchar, Erik Van Rooyen

10:40AM ET: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele

10:50AM ET: Pat Perez, Tommy Fleetwood

11:00AM ET: Kevin Kisner, Zach Johnson

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Rehearsals for Elliott & Harper Productions’ inaugural production, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle by Simon Stephens began this week. Directed by the Olivier and Tony award-winning Marianne Elliott, it runs at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London from 3 October 2017 to 6 January 2018, with a press night on Monday 9 October 2017. Marianne’s many credits include the award-winning productions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, War Horse and most recently the National Theatre’s production of Angels in America, which will transfer to Broadway next year, as a co-production with Elliott & Harper.

Tony and Olivier-Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle is a surprising and life-affirming new play inspired by one of the most famous ideas in quantum physics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and stars Anne-Marie Duff as Georgie and Kenneth Cranham as Alex.

In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever.

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  The creative team for Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle also includes many of the team Elliott worked with on her record- breaking production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time including designer Bunny Christie, lighting designer Paule Constable, movement director Steven Hoggett and sound designer Ian Dickinson. The play will also feature music from acclaimed pianist and composer Nils Frahm.

Photographs by Alex Rumford include: director Marianne Elliott, producer, Chris Harper, designer Bunny Christie, playwright Simon Stephens and cast members, Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham.

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle 3rd October 2017 to 6th January 2018 Wyndham’s Theatre

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Thomas Dennis by Alex Rumford

The National Theatre’s today (17 May 2017 ) announced the 34 strong cast for its acclaimed production of War Horse which begins a major tour of the UK on 15 September 2017 (press night: 3 October 2017) at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and continues its journey around the UK to Bristol Hippodrome (18 October – 11 November 2017), the Empire Theatre, Liverpool (15 November – 2 December 2017), New Theatre, Oxford (13 December 2017 – 6 January 2018), Brighton Centre (25 January – 10 February 2018), Bradford Alhambra Theatre (14 February – 10 March 2018) and the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (14 March – 7 April 2018), Edinburgh Festival Theatre (18 April – 12 May 2018), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (16 May – 9 June 2018), The Lowry, Salford (13 – 30 June 2018), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (4 – 28 July 2018), New Victoria Theatre, Woking (1 – 18 August 2018), Plymouth Theatre Royal (29 August – 15 September), Milton Keynes Theatre (19 September – 6 October 2018) and Glasgow SEC (15 January 2019 – 2 February 2019).

Thomas Dennis, who is currently playing Christopher Boone in the National Theatre’s West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will play the central role of Albert Narracott with fellow Curious cast member Jo Castleton as his mother Rose Narracott. Celebrated folk musician, Bob Fox, returns as Song Man.  They are joined by:  Marcus Adolphy (Carter), Adam Barlow (Greig/Schweyk/Sergeant Fine), Peter Becker (Friedrich), Joelle Brabban (Emilie), Lucas Button (Joey Hind), Jasper William Cartwright (Billy/Heine/Klebb), Chris Charles (Joey/Topthorn Heart), Jonathan Charles (Bone/Vet Martin), Sebastian Charles (Topthorn Heart), Anna Chessher (Joey/Topthorn Head), Nicky Cross (Joey/Topthorn Hind), Max Gallagher (Geordie), Chris Garner (Allan/Manfred), Andrew Hodges (Sergeant Thunder), Lewis Howard (Joey Heart), William Ilkley (Arthur Narracott), Ben Ingles (Lt Nicholls), Billy Irving (Goose/Schnabel), Elan James (Topthorn Hind), Kiran Landa (Annie), Gwilym Lloyd (Ted Narracott), Jack Lord (Klausen), Stephen Love (Topthorn Head), Toyin Omari-Kinch (David), Samuel Parker (Joey/Topthorn Hind), Tom Quinn (Joey/Topthorn Head), Domonic Ramsden (Joey/Topthorn Heart), Arinder Sadhra (Paulette), Tom Stacy (Joey Head), Elizabeth Stretton (Matron), Simon Victor (Stewart/Heine/Ludwig).

War Horse, which has been seen by over seven million people worldwide, completed its record-breaking eight-year London run at the New London Theatre on 12 March 2016. It has won 25 awards including the Tony Award for Best Play on Broadway. Directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s remarkable story of courage, loyalty and friendship, about a young boy called Albert and his horse Joey, set against the backdrop of the First World War is the most successful play in the National Theatre’s history. It features ground-breaking puppetry work by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, which brings breathing, galloping horses to live on stage.

War Horse received its world premiere on 9 October 2007 at the National Theatre, where it played for two seasons before opening at the New London Theatre in March 2009. Since then, War Horse has been seen in 97 cities in 10 countries, including productions on Broadway, in Toronto and Berlin, with touring productions in the UK and Ireland, North America, the Netherlands, Belgium and China.

Michael Morpurgo said: ‘After a few months rest, out at pasture, Joey, the War Horse and his great team from the National Theatre, will be touring the UK again, from 2017 through to 2019 and the centenary of the end of the First World War, taking their show all over the country, to towns and cities, many of them places War Horse has not been seen before. I am so pleased this is happening; that so many more people will have the chance to enjoy this unique theatrical event. Steady boy, steady Joey. Trot on!’

War Horse is directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, designed by Rae Smith, with puppet direction, design and fabrication by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler for Handspring Puppet Company, lighting by Paule Constable, and movement and horse choreography by Toby Sedgwick, with video design by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for 59 Productions, songmaker John Tams, music by Adrian Sutton and sound by Christopher Shutt.

Katie Henry is the revival director and Craig Leo is the associate puppetry director. They are joined by assistant puppetry director, Matthew Forbes and resident director, Charlotte Peters.

The tour of War Horse coincides with the Centenary commemorations of the end of the First World War and follows the production’s sold-out tour of the UK and Ireland in 2013-2014.

War Horse is produced on tour by the National Theatre.

BOOK TICKETS FOR BRIGHTON CENTRE

Booking Period: Thursday 25 January – Saturday 10 February 2018 Running Time: To be confirmed

BOOK TICKETS FOR THE FOLLOWING VENUES Bristol Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol Liverpool Empire, Liverpool New Theatre Oxford, Oxford New Victoria Theatre, Woking Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes

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Danielle Kassaraté (information) Joseph Ayre (Christopher) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Photo by Alex Rumford.

The National Theatre has announced two extra matinees for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on Tuesday 14th February and Tuesday 30th May 2017. Curious Incident has its final West End performance at the Gielgud Theatre on Saturday 3rd June 2017.

The Olivier and Tony Award®-winning play was adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling book by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott. It is the recipient of a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, Best Director, Best Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Sound Design – more Oliviers than any other single play in the history of the West End.

The show tells the story of 15-year-old Christopher Boone, who has an extraordinary brain; and is exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He sets out to solve a mystery of who killed his neighbour’s dog, but his detective work takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is designed by Bunny Christie, with lighting by Paule Constable, video design by Finn Ross, movement by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly, music by Adrian Sutton and sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph.

The West End cast comprises of: Joseph Ayre as Christopher Boone with Jo Castleton as his teacher Siobhan, Nicolas Tennant as Ed, Sarah Stanley as Judy, Jacqueline Clarke as Mrs Alexander, Amanda Posener as Mrs Shears, Ross Waiton as Roger Shears, Matthew Trevannion as Mr Thompson, Danielle Kassaraté/Gemma Knight Jones as No.40/Punk Girl, David Nellist as Reverend Peters, and nineteen year old Thomas Dennis is the alternate Christopher (the youngest actor ever to play Christopher). They are joined by Penelope McGhie, Charleen Qwaye, Philip Stewart and Matt Wilman.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is also on a major tour of the UK and Ireland. It is currently at The Lowry in Salford (until 4 February) and continues to Aylesbury, Edinburgh, Leeds, Canterbury, Bath, Southampton, Nottingham, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, Sheffield, Oxford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bristol, Plymouth, Birmingham, Llandudno, Southend, Liverpool, Bradford, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Norwich, finishing at Milton Keynes Theatre on 16 September 2017.

Gielgud Theatre Listings Information Address: Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 6AR Booking to the final West End performance on 3 June 2017 Performances: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm Extra matinees at 2.30pm on Tuesday 14 February and 30 May 2017

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