#NeuroDiversity Celebrated English #Literature critic #SamuelJohnson suffered from #TouretteSyndrome & #Depression throughout his life. Childhood tuberculous left deep facial scarring. Deaf in one ear; blind in one eye; he had Gout; Testicular #Cancer & a late-life stroke left him unable to speak. Yet, his influence & prolific literary achievements prevail #MentalHealth
#Theatre Unique in the way it presents World War One to audiences, #TunnelTrench is a #Play written by #HubertGriffith in 1923. A drama critic for the #Observer, Griffith had personal experience of #WW1 & the military he featured, presenting new insights into the manner it was fought. Opened at the #DuchessTheatre in 1929 & #ITV play of the week in 1963 #WestEnd
#Saved is a #Play by #EdwardBond that premiered at the #RoyalCourtTheatre. Set in 60’s #London it’s a story of a frustrated generation growing up in cultural poverty on council estates. #LordChamberlain refused a #LegitimateDrama license unless censored & when performed, all were prosecuted. The legal case backfired & was pivotal to the abolition of #Theatre censorship #WestEnd
#LaurenceOlivier said in response to the censorship decision of the play “#Saved is not a #Play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it.”
#LegitimateDrama dates back to the defunct English Licensing Act of 1737 that restricted performances of serious “spoken drama” to 2 licensed patent theatres. To control what was said about the British government a Legitimate #Theatre could be easily censored, whilst illegitimate theatres would show only lighter formats: #MusicHall#Pantomime#Burlesque or #Melodrama#WestEnd
Distinctions between #LegitimateDrama & "illegitimate" #Theatre ended in 1968. Triggered by the #EdwardBond play #Saved performed at the #RoyalCourtTheatre who lent their licensed stage to another company so they could perform the #Play as Bond had written. The evasion was challenged & declared a violation, the repeal led to the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK.
Enjoyed by generations, the people’s palace floats upon an enchanted sea. Children play, families carouse, & couples kissed through two world wars and stormy seas, the rollercoaster thrills, dodgems and fresh sea air charging the hearts and minds of all who have walked upon her. #Poem#Pier#Brighton
#Museum of Future Experiences #MoFE in #SoHo#Brooklyn#NewYork uses #VR and Spatial #3D sound design to deliver a high-tech #Immersive#Experience. Our goal is to show you something you’ve never seen before! Audiences are asked to complete a questionnaire about their emotions and desires, and based on their answers they access an experience from a library https://mofe.co
#ErnestHemingway wrote much of his memoir, "A Moveable Feast" at a café in #Montparnasse#Paris, La Closerie des Lilas, which is still open today. Café #culture features prominently in the #book & he often based his characters on people he met. "The marble-topped tables, the smell of café cremes, the smell of early morning sweeping out and mopping and luck were all you needed.”
#Bars#CoffeeShops#Museums and even #Trains are all spaces in which successful #writers get serious work done. I find productivity is at a high when writing in a #coffeeshop especially when in #creative mode. I #love to write in this particular coffee shop #CaffèNero whilst drinking coffee at the start of the day. Yet why are writers are attracted to coffee shops?
#DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep is a dystopian #ScienceFiction novel by American writer #PhilipKDick first published in 1968. The inspiration behind the #Film#BladeRunner and Blade Runner 2049, the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic #SanFrancisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct. #Book
#Ubik is a 1969 science fiction #novel by American writer #PhilipKDick The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. #sciencefiction#book