Fancy spending some time working your political playwriting skills in beautiful Granada this September?
I’m running a week long course for Granada Concierge from 21st - 28th September 2021 and there are still a few places left for budding political playwrights.
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I’m currently looking for four UK-based actresses of Eastern European* heritage to take part in a two-day workshop exploring Chekov’s Three Sisters at NDT Broadgate in London on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 September.
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Our desire for oil is driven by our desire for progress at an ever increasing speed. This idea is so deeply embedded in our modern mind-set that it seems like a truth of human existence rather than a particular way of understanding the world. It colours the way we view our purpose in life.
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In her book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler identifies an unsettling problem at the heart of the idea of feminism. Feminism, she argues, imagines the idea of ‘women’ as a common identity that all women share and that unites them all. But where does our idea of what ‘women’ are come from?
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The American industrialist Henry Ford is famous for inventing the Model T Ford, the world’s first affordable mass produced car. The Model T Ford was not Henry Ford’s most astonishing invention. In 1914, Ford shocked the world by announcing that he was raising the rate of pay in his plants to $5 an hour. This more than doubled his workers’ wages. At the same time, Ford decided to limit the number of hours that his workers were allowed to work. Initially, he limited his workers to six eight hour shifts from Monday to Saturday, which he further reduced in 1926 to five eight hour shifts from Monday to Friday. In doing so, Ford invented both the modern conception of the working week and the idea of leisure time.
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