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| | | A beginner's guide to Elden Ring: what it is and why you should play it | | by Keith Stuart Mar 2, 2022 | | It is being hailed as one of the greatest games of all time, but if you don’t know your Margit from your Elden, here is a guide to get you roaming the Lands Between like a pro Elden Ring has a Metacritic rating of 97%. If you type its name into Twitter you will be flooded with praise and anecdotes from players who have already spent many hours immersed in its arcane world. But what exactly is it? Why are people obsessed with it? And should you join them – or is it too hard? Continue reading... | | | | | Our Generation review – magnificent verbatim account of teenage life will steal your heart | | by Emma John Mar 2, 2022 | | Dorfman, London
Alecky Blythe’s masterful play – which features a brilliantly charismatic cast – follows real youngsters across five years of their lives Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal lawyer, but also to go to the US and be famous. Callum adores wrestling but doesn’t think there’s a future in it – he’s a reader, not a fighter. Ierum wants to make the world a better place, but first she has got to concentrate on the tricky art of switching friendship groups. And Annabella, well, she suspects we’re on the verge of the apocalypse. And she might not be wrong. If you set out to create a dozen teenagers with whom to hang out with for three hours, you’d struggle to write a more heart-stealing bunch than those in Our Generation. And since this is a play by Alecky Blythe, master of verbatim theatre, there is nothing fabricated about them at all – these are real young people, followed across five years of their lives, captured from hundreds of hours of interviews and rendered with immaculate observation by a brilliantly charismatic cast in Daniel Evans’ production. Continue reading... | | | | | Patrick Stewart: 'I asked to play Ophelia in McKellen's Hamlet – but the timings didn't work out' | | by Mark Lawson Mar 2, 2022 | | As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as a intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of his memoir
Patrick Stewart is slightly surprised to be talking about the impending second series of Star Trek: Picard, during a break from shooting the third in California. The reason is that he so firmly turned down the first season. After playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard, 24th-century hero of Starfleet, in 176 TV episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four spin-off movies, Stewart was convinced that “I’d done everything I could with Picard and Star Trek”. But the producers – Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys), Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), Alex Kurtzman (The Mummy) – persisted. And Stewart “took a look at the names, and there were Academy ward and Pulitzer prize winners. So I thought the most courteous thing to do would be to have a meeting to tell them face to face why I was going to turn them down.” Continue reading... | | | | | |
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