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Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 15:26

The Daily Telegraph
4 stars
All sons have to abandon their mothers. All fathers have to abandon their sons. At some level. That is how the world works - how it has to work, in order for the child to become a man, for the dependent offspring to become an autonomous adult. Tennessee Williams’s first major play, the play that made his name, flashes these familiar insights straight into its audience’s eyes, challenging them to avert their gaze in guilty recognition, defying them not to bring their own demons to the table.

Final Youth Theatre Performance

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 15:24

It's the final performance of the Youth Theatre this Saturday at 6pm, email admin@sharedexperience.org.uk for venue details.
There’ll be nibbles and drinks and we’ll be showing filmed Youth Theatre productions.
The project is linked to The Glass Menagerie and looks at the fantasy and reality of the glass menagerie itself. Through movement and music, the participants will take a journey from glass to human form.

Some Girls' Mothers at Knighton Library, Leicester

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 11:11

Event Date: 18/05/2010
Part of Adult Learner’s Week.

Six daughters speak openly and passionately about mother and daughter relationships in prose that fizzes and crackles.

"Touching, wounding, humbling"
Simon Armitage

A special workshop, followed in the evening by a performance featuring Anne Caldwell, Nell Farrell, Char March and River Wolton.

Mexico: A Fourth Journalist Goes Missing in Michoacán State

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 11:10

Another journalist has been reported missing in Mexico, the fourth to disappear in Michoacán since 2006. Ramón Ángeles Zalpa, a journalist with more than ten years’ reporting experience, was last seen on 6 April at 13h00, when he left home for the National Pedagogical University, where he is also a professor.

Azerbaijan: Editor’s drug trial begins

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 10:55


Eynulla Fatullayev goes on trial on “trumped up” drugs charges while the European Court examines previous charges. Vugar Gojayev reports from Azerbaijan

Conservatives make libel reform pledge

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 01:55

Index welcomes new Conservative pledge to libel reform — all three main political parties are now committed to reform of our libel laws

Morocco: Environmental journalist jailed for two years

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 00:00

English PEN protests the two-year prison sentence handed to journalist and environmental activist Mohammed Attaoui in Atlas region on 22 March 2010. Although charged with extortion, it is feared that Attaoui has been targeted for his critical writings on environmental matters, in particular a recent exposé of cedar wood trafficking...

Thailand initiates media blackout

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 18:55

Following Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s declaration of a state of emergency yesterday the government has begun targeting news sources aimed at anti-government protesters, the so-called red shirts. The “red shirt” financed a television station, PTV was closed down today.

Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng renounces activism

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 18:55

The prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Gao Zhisheng, who had been missing for over a year, gave his first interview to the Associated Press yesterday.

During the interview, Gao refused to discuss the suspicious circumstances surrounding his disappearance and reappearance, or comment on his treatment by Chinese authorities.

Journalists assaulted while covering the Egyptian protests

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 18:55

Security forces assaulted and obstructed the journalist covering protests on the streets of Cairo on April 6. In response to an appeal made by the 6th April Movement, dozens of civilians gathered on  Midan Al-Tharir, in central Cairo, to call for constitutional change and more democratic elections.