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Artist in retreat: Polly Graham of Longborough Festival Opera | Updated: 19:14, 26 February 2021 Longborough Festival Opera is forging ahead with its plans for the summer season â this includes the building of a big top at its base near Moreton-in-Marsh to better allow for social distancing, and an ambitious programme which includes Die Walküre to kick off the companyâs Wagner Ring cycle. Here LFOâs artistic director Polly Graham speaks about waiting for live arts to resume. Tell us about what you do and how you got started. I am a stage director for opera but sometimes theatre too. I actually got started through acting in loads of plays at university and in a Shakespeare Festival in California. Watching directors build productions and create whole worlds inspired me to want to try it. ....
Kamila Shamsie and Nell Stevens to judge 2021 Goldsmiths Prize Fred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”. Stevens, who won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award for Mrs Gaskell & Me and lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will chair the panel, comprising Shamsie as well as the poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar, and the book critic and Home Fire, a modern-day retelling of the story of Sophocles’s play Antigone. She is co-vice-president of the council of the Royal Society of Literature. D’Aguiar, a British-Guyanese writer, is a professor of english at the University of California, Los Angeles. His works include five novels and six poetry collections, including the TS Eliot Prize-nominated ....
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate. Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking) ....