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Corsage (2022) Marie Kreutzer

December 25th 2022

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Vicky Krieps (Empress Elisabeth) and Alice Prosser (Anna Nahowski) behind the scenes of Corsage (2022).

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Alice Kelladonna: I asked my friend, who’s a wizard, to come cause we wanted to make sure we have magical support

Diath: oh we got magical support

Paultin: yeah we got a ton of magical support

Strix: YEAH I'M MAGIC I'M RIGHT HERE TOO

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Laura Purkiss as Vickey Hobson, Mathias Dingman as Fred Beenstock, Lachlan Monaghan as Will Mossop, Samara Downs as Maggie Hobson, Rory Mackay as Albert Prosser, and Delia Mathews as Alice Hobon, in Hobson's Choice (Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2019)

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Two decades before Stanley Kubrick murdered the very idea of innocence conveyed by the milk bar concept, all-night cafés, as they were also known, had already accumulated a shady reputation as the haunts of "crooks" and, well, murderers. Milk bars had come to Britain in the 1930s, and the first such establishment famously opened in London's Fleet Street in 1935.

Perhaps it was here in the exact same location that in May of 1952 a recently out-of-work actor and young father-to-be found employment as "part-time waiter." Working the nightshift at the café left him free to rehearse a new part during the day. The part in question was that of Albert Prosser, suitor to Alice Hobson in Hobson's Choice, a popular "folk" comedy the Arts Theatre Club had slated for their next revival. His experience as the ASM in charge of the prompt book on the Sheffield production of the play would have been the perfect preparation for the otherwise unheard-of talent.

Having ended his Sheffield engagement on 1 March 1952, the plan was for said talent to make his West End debut with a new comedy by a then-famous playwright, but alas the production never reached London after a brief tour to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Liverpool. The delayed debut eventually took place on 4 June 1952 amid trying circumstances which included the arrival of a new-born daughter in a less than ideal domestic situation, and a work schedule worthy of the modern gig economy. The acting part was small and required little if any imagination but an impression was made, not least on the "spotters" from the Midland Theatre Company looking to cast their own presentation of the same play in the autumn.

If she's the woman that I take her for you'll get no pity. You'll get discipline.

Hobson's Choice celebrates the pride and resilience of a Lancashire family in the 1880s, complete with a cast of stock characters headed by the implacable, intransigent patriarch, who in the first act suffers the indignity of losing his three unpaid shop-assistant daughters to three outrageously lucrative husbands, before he learns his lesson, albeit grudgingly, in the third. It is the third act which offers the richest opportunities for the seniormale actor to shine in the cantankerous insistence on his paternal prerogatives before he is out-manoeuvred by his doctor, his handyman, his eldest daughter, and her husband. The couple agree to give up their own household and help with Hobson's shop - but there are strings attached: Hobson's Choice is, of course, no choice at all.

The limited run at the Arts Theatre Club ended on 6 July 1952, and within two months the actor and his family found themselves on the move again, destined for Coventry. Mirroring the physical, real-life journey in a magical, metaphorical transformation on stage, the fleeting character sketch of Albert Prosser becomes the mature character study of Horatio Hobson in the Midland Theatre Company's production on 15 September 1952. In the words of the newspaper review, the new arrival was soon at home in the role of Hobson, and his stature increased as the play progressed. He came right into his own in the altercations of the last act […].

The milk bar, meanwhile, with its uniquely wholesome and slave-driving business model has itself continued to evolve since the days its clientele comprised career criminals, youngsters on the verge of delinquency, or Fleet Street journalists after their midnight deadline. In my more nostalgic flights of fancy I would still like to imagine that the equivalent of my 2019 latte macchiato would in 1952 have provided at least some temporary, part-time nourishment - and not only in the form of ill-gotten gains or excess calories.

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In the third Cutting of Season 3, Dave talks to Philosophy Tube’s Oliver Thorn, witchcraft scholar Dr. Alice Tarbuck, and historian Dr Robert Poole about the history, philosophy and ideology of persecution. Dave also considers how the legacy of Lancaster Castle, his own family tree, and an excellent twitter thread by Dr Clare Askew fit within idea that ‘we are the heirs of the witch hunters.’

This episode follows on from the last Cutting, which looked at Magic –  http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/cuttings/the-family-tree-season-3-cuttings-2-magic/ – and is a companion piece to this Cuttings episode from Season 2: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/cuttings/the-family-tree-season-2-cuttings-2-systems-and-structures/

Zoe Prosser, who gives a reading in this episode, was a guest in this Cuttings episode from Season 1: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/cuttings/cutting-5-fantasies-and-conspiracies/

The Family Tree’s Cuttings discuss the real issues raised in the show with special guests from podcasting, journalism, religion and the arts.

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Sergeant John Forge:

Sergeant John Forge (Service Number 63492-94758-JF) was a veteran non-commissioned officer and an infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps. Although he excelled in tactics and combat, his repeated acts of insubordination caused him to receive three demotions, with infractions such as fighting with an officer, (which resulted in 2.4 years in jail time), and striking a superior officer. He sported an ace of spades playing card attached to his left shoulder pauldron, and also carried a combat knife he named "Lucy."

Early Life:

Born on Earth on May 29, 2501, Forge's life revolved around the military. His family lineage had been a part of the military for generations, dating as far back as World War II. He joined boot camp at the minimum age 16, where his superiors remarked there was "something special" about him. Forge and his wife fathered a daughter, Lucy Orion "Rion" Forge, around 2525. Although John's marriage was strained even before the birth of his child, he and Rion would always remain on good terms.

Forge worked a stint as a military policeman on Mars and did some "grunt work" on Epsilon Eridani IV during the Insurrection. However, he hated policing and jumped at the chance to be assigned to Fort Marshall.

Forge was arrested twice during his service. His first arrest was for directly disobeying orders and disorderly conduct. Even though his actions saved four members of his squad, Forge spent a total of 2.4 years in prison, an infraction that removed any chance of moving through Officer Candidate School or even progressing beyond the rank of sergeant.

His second arrest occurred around August 17, 2530. Forge's then-five-year-old daughter, Rion, and her aunt Jillian were waiting for John in a bar when Lieutenant Prosser started making sexual advances on Jillian. When the lieutenant made a suggestive comment toward Rion, Jillian struck Prosser, prompting him to shove her against a wall. At this point John arrived and confronted the lieutenant. They engaged in a fist fight, with charges brought upon the sergeant. However, Rion proclaimed her father as a hero and all charges were dropped, where he was later reassigned to the UNSC Spirit of Fire by Admiral Preston Cole himself. Spirit of Fire's commanding officer, Captain James Cutter, came to trust Forge so thoroughly that he granted the sergeant a degree of authority significantly exceeding that afforded by his rank.

Reclamation of Harvest:

In February 2531, Spirit of Fire was sent to assist the crippled Marathon-class heavy cruiser UNSC Prophecy in the Epsilon Indi system. Captain Cutter ordered the Prophecy's navigation database and survivors to be recovered, sending Forge and multiple Marine fireteams on board the vessel while Spirit of Fire engaged several Covenant ships. Forge's Pelican dropship was hit by enemy fire and crash landed on the Prophecy's hull. Forge and Team Lima breached and boarded the Prophecy, whereupon they were attacked by Kig-Yar Rangers. Forge's ankle was broken during the engagement. With the guidance of Serina, Spirit of Fire's AI, he was able to find the a terminal to recover the ship's black box and wipe its navigation core while the rest of Team Lima rescued the ship's survivors. Serina warned Forge that the Prophecy's AI may "act peculiar" due to high radiation levels.

Upon scanning his retina to gain access to the terminal, Forge was halted by the ship's AI, FitzGibbon, who explained he could not allow him to enter due to the latter's poor service record. Forge reminded the AI of the Cole Protocol, stating that he was aboard the vessel to ensure the protocol would not to be violated. FitzGibbon then reluctantly allowed Forge into the terminal room and enabled radiation repair routines. Forge purged the navigation database and returned to the Pelicans as FitzGibbon activated Prophecy's self-destruct sequence, which soon scuttled the ship. After the Marines and Forge escaped with the survivors, they were taken to Spirit of Fire's medical bay. When Forge asked how the survivors were doing, Serina told him that they would all soon die due to all of them suffering extensive radiation poisoning. Forge was angered by the AI's indifference towards the survivors and comforted them in their final moments, believing that even if they would soon be dead, they were still people and so deserved better.

Forge was sent to the surface of Harvest on his first mission to scout out Covenant activity in the northern polar region of the planet. He drove through Quadrant 4 to find a battalion of Sangheili that an AV-14 Hornet squadron had spotted earlier. Reporting the Covenant activity to his superiors, as to how the aliens had found a a Forerunner structure buried within the ice, he returned to the overrun UNSC Alpha Base, and helped organize scattered Marine units along the way. Forge and his rag-tag assault force were able to retake Alpha Base a short-time later. Before the Relic was demolished by the Covenant, the Forerunner site is captured by Forge and Marine forces. Professor Ellen Anders was then sent to the planet's surface to personally investigate the relic, and Forge reluctantly escorted her inside.[14] He was present when Anders activated a Forerunner holographic projection of a star map, and protected her when they were ambushed by a team of Sangheili warriors. Spirit of Fire then evacuated most of her ground troops, including Forge, and set course for Arcadia, a UNSC colony planet to which the star map had pointed.[12]

Arcadia:

After arriving at Arcadia, Forge was among the first UNSC troops to set foot in the besieged capital of Pirth City, where he aided the evacuation of civilians aboard three cargo vessels. When the civilian transports took off, Forge and his men abandoned the besieged city and fell back to the outskirts. There, he took part in the destruction of a nearby Covenant base, assisted by Spartan teams Red and Omega. He also participated in the battle to destroy a Covenant energy dome which was protecting an unfinished Type-29 Scarab. After a short battle, the UNSC forces succeeded in destroying the Scarab. While he and Anders were surveying the area, Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee ambushed them. Forge was swiftly defeated and was about to be killed, until Anders stopped the Arbiter by agreeing to go with him without incident. After Spartan Red Team's unsuccessful attempt to stop the Arbiter from escaping, they immediately retreated back to the Spirit of Fire. Spirit of Fire then made a slipspace jump in pursuit of 'Moramee's retreating vessel.

Shield world:

After Spartan Jerome-092 recommended destroying 'Moramee's ship and killing Anders rather than let classified information fall into Covenant hands, Forge confronted the Spartan. The altercation resulted in a broken chair, a seal malfunction on a bulkhead and a stern interruption from Serina. From then on, Forge and Jerome always ate together in the mess hall.

Upon arriving at a mysterious planet, Forge was sent to the planet's surface, where he and his forces encountered the Flood. It was soon discovered that the world was not a planet at all, but a Forerunner shield world. Immediately following this revelation, Forge was put in charge of the evacuation of the Spirit's ground troops and the decontamination of Flood from the ship's dorsal surface. By chance, he came upon the recently escaped Ellen Anders in the shield world's interior and escorted her back to the Spirit of Fire.

Forge was then put in charge of the strike team that would deliver the Spirit's Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine to the Apex Site; the SFTE had been rigged as a bomb to destroy the shield world and deny its armada of Forerunner dreadnoughts to the Covenant. Atop the Apex, he once again faced 'Moramee in battle, while the Spartans of Red Team eliminated the Arbiter's comrades. Although Forge was nearly killed, he overcame his foe at the last minute by tricking the Arbiter to look him in the eye, and then stabbing him in the neck with his prized combat knife, "Lucy". He then picked up the Arbiter's energy sword and drove it through the Sangheili's stomach, killing him. As Alice-130 rolled the Arbiter's corpse off the platform, Jerome examined the engine, realizing that it had been damaged in the fight.

When it became clear that the damaged slipspace drive would have to be detonated manually, Forge realized that the Spartans would play a far greater role in the war than he ever could. He volunteered to take the FTL drive into the shield world's artificial star. Forge gave the Spirit's crew the time they needed to escape the hollow planet and then detonated the drive, sacrificing his own life, but dealing the Covenant a massive blow in the process.

Legacy:

Spirit of Fire was declared lost with all hands on February 10, 2534, though many bereaved family members refused to accept the official statement. On his deathbed, Forge's father encouraged Rion to keep up the search for the truth regarding the ship's disappearance. Rion spent the ensuing years seeking closure for her father's disappearance, eventually becoming a scavenger. In January 2557, she followed a series of leads that pointed to the log buoy Spirit of Fire had dropped at Arcadia, which in turn took her to the remains of Shield World 0459. There she encountered what remained of the former caretaker of the facility, a fragmentary ancilla she later dubbed "Little Bit", which provided her the trajectory Spirit of Fire had followed when escaping the shield world.

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Museu do Jardim Botânico mostra a beleza das plantas em ilustrações

Trabalhos de artistas nacionais especializados em reproduzir com ilustrações a beleza das plantas estarão expostos no Museu Botânico, no Jardim Botânico de Curitiba, a partir desta sexta-feira (18/5). A mostra faz parte de um circuito de exposições que acontece simultaneamente em 25 países e é organizada pela Sociedade Americana de Artistas Botânicos (em inglês, American Society for Botanical Artists). A data de abertura marca a comemoração do Dia Internacional da Arte Botânica. A Worldwide Botanical Art Exhibition – Linking People to Plants Through Contemporary Botanical Art (Exposição Internacional de Arte Botânica – Conectando Pessoas às Plantas Através da Arte Botânica Contemporânea) fica em cartaz até 18 de junho. Além das 60 ilustrações, traz um vídeo com os 40 trabalhos mais significativos de cada país participante. Haverá mostras na África do Sul, Alemanha, Austrália, Bermudas, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, China, Colômbia, Coreia do Sul, Costa Rica, Escócia, Estados Unidos, França, Holanda, Indonésia, Irlanda, Itália, Japão, México, Nova Zelândia, Reino Unido, Rússia, Tailândia e Ucrânia. Ao vivo Durante três dias, de 18 a 20 de maio, os interessados na Arte Botânica também poderão conferir demonstrações dos artistas e participar de oficinas. A programação prevê, ainda, palestras e mesas redondas sobre o tema.

ARTISTAS PARTICIPANTES DA MOSTRA Alessandro Cândido (PR), Alex Araújo (PA), Alexandre Viana (SC), Álvaro Nunes (GO), Ana Deliberador (PR), Ana Maria Aviotti (RJ), Bibiana Rys (SP), Carmen Fidalgo (SP), Cássia Dias (PR), Cecília Tomasi (SP), Diana Carneiro (PR), Elisabeth Seraphin Prosser (PR), Fátima Bini (PR), Fátima Zagonel (PR) Gustavo Marigo (RJ), Hiroe Sasaki (SP), Isabel Lima e Silva (RJ), Ivone Gradowski (PR), Jamile Elias Dib (GO), Lais Licheski (PR), Laura Montserrat (SP), Lídia Macedo (RJ), Luiz Carlos Berri (RJ), Maria Alice Rezende (RJ), Maria da Penha Passos (PR), Maura Piccoli (PR), Rachel Rosadas (RJ), Rogerio Lupo (SP), Simone Ribeiro (PR), Susana Ferreira de Souza (RJ) e Zenilton Gayoso (DF).

SERVIÇO: EXPOSIÇÃO DE ARTE BOTÂNICA Local: Museu Botânico do Jardim Botânico de Curitiba (Rua Engenheiro Ostoja Roguski, 690 - Jardim Botânico) Abertura: 18/5, às 9h Mostra: de 18/5 a 18/6, das 9h às 16h30 Palestras e oficinas: de 18 a 20/5 (horários abaixo)

PROGRAMAÇÃO Sexta-feira – 18 de maio 9h – Abertura oficial da mostra 10h – Apresentação do vídeo internacional 11h – Palestra com a artista botânica Maria Alice Resende, do Rio de Janeiro 13h – Mesa redonda com artistas do cenário nacional 15h – Apreciação das obras com depoimento de artistas Sábado – 19 de maio Das 9h às 16h30 – Oficina com Álvaro Nunes, de Goiás Domingo – 20 de maio Das 9h às 16h30 – Demonstrações com os artistas paranaenses Cássia Dias (técnica com lápis de cor) e Alessandro Câdido (técnica com aquarela)

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Redcliffe Musical Theatre: BACK TO THE 80s

Creative team

Madeleine Johns, executive producer and director Kaitlyn Maxwell, artistic director Brodie Jones, assistant director/choreographer Rebel Lyons, assistant director/assistant wardrobe manager James Bovill, music director Rebel Bliss, choreographer Bruce Noy, technical director/light and sound designer Kim Phillips, properties/wardrobe manager

Production team

Sharon Bapty, producer Alex Kuchmenko, assistant music director (vocal coach) Jonathan Johns, stage manager Adrian Jones, assistant stage manager Nicola Jones, production manager/front-of-house manager Paula Reese, assistant wardrobe manager Lachy Stewart, band leader Suzi Rowan, technical assistant Ben McShea, media liaison 

Band

Guitar: Lachy Stewart Keys 1: James Bovill Keys 1 cover: Terry Million Keys 2: Tod Phillips Saxophone: Ryan Evans Trumpet: Adam Binnie Trombone: Kate Fletcher Bass: Cale Tanner Drums: Bevan Bancroft Drums cover: Ajay Hazzard Drums cover: Stuart McLean

Cast

"Seniors"

Corey Palmer Snr: Michael Mills

Corey Palmer Jnr: Tim Kennedy (u/s Alf)

Tiffany Houston: Kaley Jones (u/s Mel)

Alf Bueller: Liam Hartley (u/s Corey Jnr)

Kirk Keaton: Oliver Catton

Cyndi Gibson: Rebel Lyons

Mel Easton: Giuliana Russo (u/s Tiffany)

Kim Easton: Kristin Sparks (u/s Cyndi)

Michael Feldman: Alex Kuchmenko (u/s Huey)

Billy Arnold: Jimmy Morris

Huey Jackson: Adam Goodall (u/s Michael)

Lionel Astley: Cameron Egginton

Feargal McFerrin III: Jarrad Langtree

Eileen Reagan: Abby Smith

Laura Wilde: Georgia Murray

Debbie Fox: Ashley Prosser

"Faculty"

Miss Brannigan: Sally Kimber

Mr Cocker: Reagan Warner

Mr Cocker (alt.): James Bovill

Adult ensemble

Cheer captain: Jasmine Reese

Cheer co-captain: Ashleigh Hill-Webber

Cheerleader: John Chant

Cheerleader: Alyson Reese

Cheerleader: Cassidy Prosser

Choir soloist: Laney Elson

Chess club member: Eileen Collins

Groupie: Esther McGregor

Everyone's friend: Suzi Rowan

"Sophomores" -- teen ensemble

Madie Beckley

Kayla Pehi

Alice Simpson

Dublin Rose

Theo Todd

Kelly Reedman

Adison Ransley

"Freshmen" -- junior ensemble

Emerson McShea

Makenzi Goodwin

Sienna Randall

Kaia Arkinstall

Lily Prodger

Abbie Gommers

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Alice Prosser (Anna Nahowski) behind the scenes of Corsage (2022).