Polish director-writer Michal Grzybowski’s film has inspired flashes, but mostly eschews humour for a drearier take on the intertwining of stage and life
The play’s the thing in this tepid Polish comedy-drama that catches the conjugal complications of its protagonist. Self-righteous theatre actor Marcin (Łukasz Simlat), is mid-run playing Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan. His terminally unhappy wife Ola (Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza) announces she is off; then, as their argument spills into the theatre wings where she is playing Tinkerbell, she reveals that she previously slept with someone else. Ziemovit/Peter Pan (Dobromir Dymecki) looks sheepish – before being opportunely hoisted out of reach on wires.
A few months down the line, Marcin is essaying Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite his new love Ewa (Wiktoria Filus) as Nora. But when she falls down a trapdoor, guess who is substituted into the role? The tension is ratcheted up when Marcin and Ola once again find themselves leading the bill as sparring Oberon and Titania, in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on which their company’s future rests.
Continue reading...With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural history
In the basement laboratory of the National Dendrological Park Sofiyivka, Larisa Kolder tends to dozens of specimens of Moehringia hypanica between power outages. Just months earlier, she and her team at this microclonal plant propagation laboratory in Uman, Ukraine, received 23 seeds of the rare flower.
Listed as threatened in Ukraine’s Red Book of endangered species, Moehringia grows nowhere else in the wild but the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. Of those 23 seeds, only two grew into plants that Kolder and her colleagues could clone in their laboratory, but now her lab is home to a small grove of Moehringia seedlings, including 80 that have put down roots in a small but vital win for biodiversity conservation amid Russia’s war with Ukraine.
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The centre-forward to whose leaving I refer is Jean-Philippe Mateta. You can’t argue with numbers, I don’t suppose, and he’s done a fairly good job in patches, I just can’t get on board with a striker so bad at finishing one-on-ones. If Milan are seriously prepared to give £30m for a 28-year-old, I’d say thank you very much.
In an effort to save themselves – an effort that ought, perhaps, to have been made in the summer, strengthening a team doing brilliantly to give it a chance of performing both domestically and in Europe – they’ve taken Evann Guessand on loan from Villa. I can’t say I like what I’ve seen so far, but perhaps Oliver Glasner’s system suits him more than Unai Emery’s.
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BURBANK (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het Amerikaanse entertainmentconcern Walt Disney heeft een nieuwe topman in het vizier die de opvolger moet worden van Bob Iger. Volgens bronnen tegen persbureau Bloomberg is Josh D'Amaro favoriet om de hoogste functie te gaan vervullen. Hij geeft leiding aan de pretparken van Disney. Volgende week wordt gestemd over de benoeming van een nieuwe bestuursvoorzitter van Disney.
D'Amaro is als voorzitter van Disney Experiences verantwoordelijk voor de pretparken en resorts van het bedrijf in de Verenigde Staten, Europa en Azië. Die tak is sinds 2020 het meest winstgevende onderdeel van Disney, aldus Bloomberg.
Disney had eerder gezegd begin 2026 een opvolger voor Iger te willen benoemen. Hij was eerder van 2005 tot 2020 topman en keerde in 2022 terug om het roer over te nemen van Bob Chapek. Chapek, die door Iger zelf was geselecteerd, moest aftreden na tegenvallende resultaten.