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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN15 - Sarah Jones , Playwright, Actress and Poet, USA captured during the session Comedy and Empathy in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
When I think about toilet seats I get nauseous, especially public ones. Just the thought of sitting where everyone else has sat is disgusting to me. Restrooms in general gross me out–the sink, the door knob, everything. I went to a small private school in high school and the only restroom the boys had was this really small, dark hole in the hall and the only reason anyone would ever use it was because they had to. It was lit by the light of a 40 watt bulb and for some reason it always smelled like Pine Sol and mothballs–it was weird. Anyway, I didn’t really have any friends in high school, so many times during the day I would just go in there and hang out for long periods of time waiting until the school day was over. One time one of the guys in my class got suspicious and pointed out that I was spending an awful lot of time in the bathroom, but I just pretended like I wasn’t feeling well and he let it go. After school every day I’d usually just go home and watch something on TV until bedtime. A couple of years later I graduated, went to college and that pretty much brings us all up to speed I think.
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Divine Comedy 2010
Orgy
Director: Wiktor Rubin
It is not a tale of the body, the pleasure, and the delight, but a theatre study of Power. The monotonous and systematic chain of cruelty and violence that a man and a woman deal to each other is meant to illustrate the principle of supremacy over another human. Violence is the essence of power. In this play, Wiktor Rubin changes the foundations of his directing style, leaving the collages of alterations and formulas aside. He provokes a performance that should disrupt the spectators’ sense of security, and test the mechanisms of linguistic, carnal, and situational enthrallment. We do not understand what Power is until we are wronged, until we have realised how hurt we have been. Thus, every action of the two actors within the space of the play must be aimed not only against each other but also against the spectators. The reactions of the onlookers are filmed and shown on screens; actors take away women’s handbags and comment upon their contents; they search the men, and lock some in boxes on stage, forcing them into mock sexual intercourses. Eroticism becomes lined with fear, intimacy is exposed to the public eye. The Gdańsk staging evokes powerful emotions in an experiment that may be rejected, yet in which one may also get lost.
Photography: Grzegorz Ziemiański
Dancers perform with Emmanuel Kembe during the “Comedy for Peace" event, supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), at the Nyakuron Cultural Centre on Sunday, 23 April in Juba.
But what would we call it?
More on the evolution of Junior & Casey here:
www.commatose.ca/2013/11/flashback-to-march-2013-junior-c...
A wonderful day in Blackpool. First visit in quite a while! Used to spend every summer holiday here when I was a girl and have avoided it for years since. Was inspired to go because of the new Promenade and Comedy Carpet. Definitely worth it and the weather helped a little.
Inspiring Comedy proves that comedians can be clean and funny! These hilarious performers provide non-stop laughter for the entire family.
Whether you like stand-up comedians, magicians, ventriloquists, jugglers or musical comedy, this DVD has something for everyone! You’ll enjoy nearly two full hours of entertainment.
Available now at www.filmbaby.com/films/4971
This was a promo shoot for local comedy team. Total improvisation. I love comedians.
Lighting:
1. 2 bare SB-26 from the left and right (you can see them in the frame) with CTB filter as kicker.
2. 2 SB-800 into Photek Softliter 60'' from the left and top, as fill light.
3. SB-800 into 41cm beauty dish from the same side as Photek, as key light.
Triggered via Radiopoppers PX and JrX via Nikon CLS and Wireless remote SU-800.
«El fuego eterno
que dentro arde, rojas nos las muestra,
como estás viendo en este bajo infierno.» 75
Así llegamos a los hondos fosos
que ciñen esa tierra sin consuelo;
de hierro aquellos muros parecían. 78
No sin dar antes un rodeo grande,
llegamos a una parte en que el barquero
«Salid ‑gritó con fuerza‑ aquí es la entrada.»
Divine Comedy 2010
Orgy
Director: Wiktor Rubin
It is not a tale of the body, the pleasure, and the delight, but a theatre study of Power. The monotonous and systematic chain of cruelty and violence that a man and a woman deal to each other is meant to illustrate the principle of supremacy over another human. Violence is the essence of power. In this play, Wiktor Rubin changes the foundations of his directing style, leaving the collages of alterations and formulas aside. He provokes a performance that should disrupt the spectators’ sense of security, and test the mechanisms of linguistic, carnal, and situational enthrallment. We do not understand what Power is until we are wronged, until we have realised how hurt we have been. Thus, every action of the two actors within the space of the play must be aimed not only against each other but also against the spectators. The reactions of the onlookers are filmed and shown on screens; actors take away women’s handbags and comment upon their contents; they search the men, and lock some in boxes on stage, forcing them into mock sexual intercourses. Eroticism becomes lined with fear, intimacy is exposed to the public eye. The Gdańsk staging evokes powerful emotions in an experiment that may be rejected, yet in which one may also get lost.
Photography: Tomasz Wiech
Mural seen at 1316 29th Street in the Five Points area of Denver, Colorado. Please tag if you know the artist.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE 12 - 15 June 2013 Mad Props Theatre present their inaugural production, the Glasgow premiere of this Tony Award-winning musical. Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grownups who barely managed toescape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t make you a loser. With profits going to Leukaemia Research and with laughs guaranteed, don’t miss out on this cult musical where anything can happen! Part of the West End Festival, tickets are £12 and available here: www.cottiers.com/theatre-programme/the-25th-annual-putnam... — with Niall Murray, Rachel Thomson, Erik Igelström, Alex Lyne, Paula Russell, Ronan Glam Radin and Laura McLuskey at Glasgow Premiere of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN15 - particpants captured during the session Comedy and Empathy in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
Divine Comedy 2010
Orgy
Director: Wiktor Rubin
It is not a tale of the body, the pleasure, and the delight, but a theatre study of Power. The monotonous and systematic chain of cruelty and violence that a man and a woman deal to each other is meant to illustrate the principle of supremacy over another human. Violence is the essence of power. In this play, Wiktor Rubin changes the foundations of his directing style, leaving the collages of alterations and formulas aside. He provokes a performance that should disrupt the spectators’ sense of security, and test the mechanisms of linguistic, carnal, and situational enthrallment. We do not understand what Power is until we are wronged, until we have realised how hurt we have been. Thus, every action of the two actors within the space of the play must be aimed not only against each other but also against the spectators. The reactions of the onlookers are filmed and shown on screens; actors take away women’s handbags and comment upon their contents; they search the men, and lock some in boxes on stage, forcing them into mock sexual intercourses. Eroticism becomes lined with fear, intimacy is exposed to the public eye. The Gdańsk staging evokes powerful emotions in an experiment that may be rejected, yet in which one may also get lost.
Photography: Grzegorz Ziemiański
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 663. Photo:Lucienne Chevert.
Fair-haired Nicole Berger (1934-1967) was a French leading lady of the 1950s and 1960s, who appeared in several Nouvelle Vague films. Her promising career was cut short by a car crash near Rouen.
Nicole Berger was born Nicole Gouspeyre in Paris in 1934. She had a brief theatrical career, particularly in the Compagnie Barrault-Renaud, before she started to work in the cinema. She made her film debut in a small part in Jocelyn (Jacques de Casembroot, 1952) as the sister of Jean Desailly and then played a supporting part in the French comedy Julietta (Marc Allégret, 1953|), starring Dany Robin and Jean Marais. The following year, director Claude Autant-Lara gave her her first real chance. He offered her one of the three leading roles opposite Edwige Feuillère and Pierre-Michel Beck in Le Blé en herbe/The Game of Love (Claude Autant-Lara, 1954), based on the novel by Colette. She then played in several international films. In Germany she starred in Ein Mädchen aus Flandern/The Girl from Flanders (Helmut Käutner, 1956) and in the Swedish-Argentinean film Livets vår/Spring of Life (Arne Mattsson, 1958) with Folke Sundquist. She also played a supporting part in the French film Celui qui doit mourir/He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin, 1957), starring Jean Servais and Carl Möhner. The film, based on the novel O Hristos Xanastavronetai (Christ Recrucified) by Nikos Kazantzakis, was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. She reunited with Claude Autant-Lara for the crime film En cas de malheur/Love Is My Profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1958), after a novel by Georges Simenon. She played the maid of femme fatale Brigitte Bardot. That year she also starred in Véronique et son cancre/Veronique and Her Dunce (1958), a short comedy film by Éric Rohmer, which he directed before his series of Contes moraux/Six Moral Tales. She also appeared in the short Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick/All Boys Are Called Patrick (1959) written by Éric Rohmer and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Michael Buening at AllMovie: “a slight, but charming, story about two girlfriends (Nicole Berger and Anna Collette) who are seduced by lothario Patrick (Jean-Claude Brialy) over sidewalk café Cokes and on Tuileries park benches. When both Charlotte and Véronique arrive for the date, Patrick brings another woman. The story is told in a fairly straightforward style. Godard's early love of youthful frivolity, pop culture, and referential film geekery are in abundant evidence (the girls' apartment walls are decorated with film posters, they mimic their idols) and there are some tentative steps taken with visual and audio jump cuts.” In the following years Rohmer and Godard would achieve fame as directors of the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave. She also worked with François Truffaut and appeared in his feature film Tirez sur le pianist/Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960) starring Charles Aznavour as a smalltime piano player in a bar who has a secret past that he keeps hidden..
Nicole Berger appeared in the British historical drama The Siege of Sidney Street (Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, 1960 with Donald Sinden and Kieron Moore. The film depicts the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street in which armed police surrounded a house occupied by a gang in the East End of London. In France she appeared in the crime dramas La denunciation/The Denunciation (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1962) opposite Maurice Ronet, and Chair de poule/Highway Pickup (Julien Duvivier, 1963) starring Robert Hossein and Catherine Rouvel. The screenplay of the latter is based on the novel Come Easy, Go Easy by James Hadley Chase. James Travers at Films de France: “Chair de poule is among the most overlooked and underrated of Julien Duvivier's films and yet, whilst clearly not the director's greatest work, it has many commendable features and serves as a highly respectable homage to the American film noir thrillers of the 1950s.” During the 1960s she turned to television, and played in several TV-films. She was also the protagonist of the popular soap Cécilia, médecin de campagne/Cecilia country doctor (André Michel, 1966). Her final film was the experimental feature La Permission/The Story of a Three-Day Pass (Melvin Van Peebles, 1967). In the early 1960s, young filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles was unable to establish himself as a film director in Hollywood because the concept of a black director was unheard of in America at that time. Consequently, he went to France, learned the language, and wrote La Permission in French. Learning he could adapt one of his novels into film with a $60,000 grant from the French Cinema Center, so long as his film was "artistically valuable, but not necessarily commercially viable," he sought a film producer, and shot La Permission in 36 days for a cost of $200,000. Harry Baird plays a black American GI, Turner, who falls in love with a French girl (Nicole Berger). Upon his return from an idyllic weekend, Turner is demoted by his bigoted captain for fraternizing with a white girl. In the following years, Van Peebles became the father of the ‘blaxploitation’ film. Nicole Berger was killed in a car crash not far from the French town of Rouen, in 1967. She was thrown from a car driven by Dany Dauberson. Berger was only 32.
Sources: Michael Buening (AllMovie), James Travers (Films de France), AllMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
I think comedy, and by extension comedy clubs, is the best thing in life.
Nothing else can have such an effect on people, causing some to go from their saddest state ever to their happiest... or the reverse possibly ;)
But one of the great benefits of comedy is a look into culture and how certain people live.
I think when tourists visit a country that is not their own, that if they don't have the time to talk to a mass amount of residents to become one with their new city, that paying to see a comedy show should be mandatory. Nothing else can introduce a tourist into another's culture quite like a comedy club can.
And that's what Sonia and I did.
I had never been to the UK before a few weeks ago, and Sonia had only been there a few weeks herself when I got there. While she and I both had been talking to a few British on our own time, there's no way we could've grasped the culture as quickly as when went to the show -- it was probably my greatest experience in the whole trip.
Everything that we already had learned over those four days were regurgitated quite hilariously, and we learned oh so much more about the British psyche. Their uptightness, their semi-racism, their attitude towards the government... it was all too enlightening!
And because we went to the midnight show (9 pounds) that got out at around 2 or 3 in the morning when the Tube is closed, we got to take the bus back to our hotel... and, if it's possible, the buses were better organized than the subways.... That city was awesome :D
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE 12 - 15 June 2013 Mad Props Theatre present their inaugural production, the Glasgow premiere of this Tony Award-winning musical. Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grownups who barely managed toescape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t make you a loser. With profits going to Leukaemia Research and with laughs guaranteed, don’t miss out on this cult musical where anything can happen! Part of the West End Festival, tickets are £12 and available here: www.cottiers.com/theatre-programme/the-25th-annual-putnam... — with Niall Murray, Rachel Thomson, Erik Igelström, Alex Lyne, Paula Russell, Ronan Glam Radin and Laura McLuskey at Glasgow Premiere of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Gray sweater, Wet Seal. Striped dress, Mossimo. Green long-sleeved tee, Forever 21. Dark denim, Express. Gray hat, nine west. Bird medallion, Xhilaration. Cowboy boots, Playhouse.
Mike and I sold tickets for Wyoming Players’ production of Comedy of Errors this evening. I am continuing with my resolution to wear my casual dresses, despite the snow.
Jaru Jaru, a Japanese comedy duo managed by Yoshimoto Creative Agency, did their stand-up comedy at Fort Mason Center Stage! Jaru Jaru, consisting of Junpei Goto (Photo Left), Shusuke Fukutoku (Photo Right), is very popular on Japanese TV shows, and now their skits, surreal and bizarre, are a hit among comedy fans around the world.
Photo by David Toshiyuki