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No, this isn't another Netflix production. In Edinburgh, a new stage musical with the same name as the true-crime series "Making a Murderer" -- one of the streaming giant's flagship documentaries -- will be making its debut in August. The show offers another way to highlight the tragedy behind this miscarriage of justice in the US. Netflix does not own the title "Making a Murderer." And that, writer Phil Mealey understands. The award-winning screenwriter has admitted that he was inspired by the Netflix documentary to develop the stage show, titled "Making a Murderer: The Musical." The producti...
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Fancy stepping into the shoes of a detective for the evening? Such is the promise of "jubensha," the murder mystery role-playing games that are all the rage in China. And while they're proving highly popular among young people in the country, they're increasingly subject to Beijing's censorship. Getting together with a few colleagues or friends to solve mysteries is now the pastime of choice for many Chinese Millennials, as they momentarily slip into the shoes of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot during games of "jubensha" (or "scripted homicide" in Chinese). These role-playing games in the fo...
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Marietou Thiam's slender figure twists and twirls, suspended in mid-air by a hoop, under the spellbound gaze of onlookers at Dakar's first-ever circus festival. Thiam is the artistic director -- and one of only two women members -- of Sencirk, Senegal's premier circus troupe, which organised the festival. The 29-year-old first moved to Dakar for her studies, but left that life behind to join the circus. Her family has never approved of the decision. But when she is on stage, Thiam has no regrets. She is carried by the magic of the moment -- and the importance of Sencirk's mission. That's becau...
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Walk around the German Alpine village of Oberammergau, and the chances are you'll run into Jesus or one of his 12 disciples. Of the 5,500 people living there, 1,400 -- aged from three months to 85 -- are participating this year in the once-a-decade staging of an elaborate "Passion Play" depicting the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dating back to 1634, the tradition has persisted through four centuries of wars, religious turmoil and pandemics -- including the most recent Covid-19 crisis which caused the show to be postponed by two years. "I think we're a bit stubborn," says Frederic Ma...
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Young musicians, dancers, actors and comedians from across the Arab world took to the stage in Tunisia to express their visions of freedom, more than a decade after the Arab Spring uprisings. The show, performed under the stars at a seaside theatre in the resort of Hammamet and broadcast across the region, featured winners of an online video competition to complete the phrase: "I will only be free when..." It was the latest in a string of talent and debate programmes organised by media action group Munathara ("debate"), which aims "to spark much-needed conversations about rights, freedoms and ...
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Four days of public celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking 70-year reign begin on Thursday. Thursday June 2More than 1,200 soldiers from the Household Division of the British Army perform the "Trooping of the Colour" ceremony to officially mark the queen's birthday. The military pageant, complete with musicians and horses, combines pomp and tradition dating back more than two centuries. The queen will take the salute from troops on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, then reappear later to wave to crowds and watch a fly-past of military jets. Balcony appearances this year are ...
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Corgi dogs, horses and swans are all being put through their paces in a historic warehouse in Coventry ahead of their starring roles in a parade to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign. One of the procession's tableaux, entitled "The Queen's Favourites", has been commissioned from Imagineer, an outdoor events company based in the English West Midlands city. Director Jane Hytch said the royal commission came as a "total surprise", but that the job was a "huge honour". The parade, touching on more personal aspects of the 96-year-old queen's life, will wind through central London to Buckingham...
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A stage, lights, a mesmerised audience: it looks like an Egyptian folkloric concert but Umm Sameh is singing to heal the sick by driving out the demons that possess them. The music and dance ritual known as "zar", with centuries-old roots in Ethiopia and Sudan, is traditionally performed to ward off or exorcise jinn or evil spirits. "We're not quacks or witches," said Umm Sameh, aged in her 70s, with kohl-lined eyes, large hoops swaying in her ears and gold bracelets tinkling on her arms. "The singing is spiritual and brings out negative energies," said the lead singer of the Mazaher ensemble,...
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After two long years without its frenetic festival of sparkling sequins, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday for the first time since Covid-19 hit Brazil. In what is sure to be a giant, glittering spectacle of pandemic catharsis, thousands of dancers and drummers will descend on the iconic beach city's "Sambadrome," reclaiming the carnival parade venue that was turned into a drive-through vaccination center at the height of the health crisis. The all-night parades by the city's top samba schools Friday and Saturday nights will be the fir...
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After two bleak years of lock-downs and loss, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival this weekend for the first time since Covid-19 hit Brazil, promising a giant, glittering spectacle of pandemic catharsis. Shimmying to throbbing samba beats, thousands of dancers in sequin-studded costumes are expected to reclaim the "Sambadrome," the iconic beach city's dedicated carnival parade venue, which was turned into a Covid-19 vaccination center in 2021. Canceled last year as the pandemic death toll surged in hard-hit Brazil, then postponed by two months this year over fears of another wave, the ...
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