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| | | Twenty-six seconds of fame: how Doctor Strange got upstaged by a swivel-eyed extra | | by Stuart Heritage Jun 30, 2022 | | The wedding scene guest, whose performance of a lifetime stole the show from Benedict Cumberbatch, enters that bizarre pantheon of extras who gave it some extra A lot of the criticism directed towards Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness pertains to that final word. Aside from a brief montage of Doctor Strange being quickly flung through a bunch of multiverses, the film just wasn’t mad enough for most people. Well, more fool us. A clip from the movie has just gone viral, and it contains perhaps the maddest thing put to film in the last decade. We just didn’t notice it at the time, because it happened in the background. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know that there is a small, quiet scene in which Doctor Strange attends the wedding of his ex-girlfriend. In the foreground, Benedict Cumberbatch does lots of complicated internal work to show his discomfort with the situation. But watch the scene again. Look at the extra sitting behind him. She absolutely loses her mind. Continue reading... | | | | | Welsh National opera Migrations review – ambitious and timely new opera examines freedom | | by Rian Evans Jun 30, 2022 | | Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Welsh National Opera’s staging of six stories of migration is a brave and far-reaching exercise in collaboration and diversity, with a heroic effort from composer Will Todd In a week when dozens of migrants perished in a truck in Texas, as Rwanda continues to be the UK government’s preferred destination for asylum seekers and the country’s new protest laws came into effect, the premiere of Welsh National Opera’s Migrations was timely. As a massive exercise in collaboration and inclusivity, and for its engagement with the fundamental concept of freedom, Migrations was a significant and brave venture, even if, in the end, it was compromised by its overarching ambition. Director David Pountney’s epic began as a project for 2020 to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers’ flight from persecution, but was expanded to become an examination of the age-old necessity of seeking change. With six different narrative threads, five authors from differing backgrounds and the heroic effort of a single composer, Will Todd, the crisscrossing of stories across time avoided becoming confusing thanks to section titles and surtitles. It did, however, become unwieldy. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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