In March, China's national development and reform commission, the state's central planning office, announced the closure of 66 golf clubs – about one out of every 10 in the country, according to American journalist Dan Washburn, author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream.
Forbidden Zone's rehearsals suggests a director not so much running away from British theatre as trying to rethink its traditions – which makes it seem slightly absurd that fans of her work now have to travel to Germany to see it.
Mitchell is halfway through five weeks of rehearsals for Forbidden Zone, a play that will premiere at the Salzburg festival in August – though rehearsing is perhaps not quite the right word.
The slightly more legit option, called Lambada, did underwhelming business but still fared much better than The Forbidden Dance (which was originally called The Forbidden Dance is Lambada, but after legal action from the Lambada film-makers, the word was removed).
The Forbidden Zone will be live-streamed from the Salzburg festival on 2 August at the Barbican, London EC2.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (192 pages): Bradbury's classic dystopia about a future society where books are forbidden.
They wanted what it is forbidden to wise people to take unto themselves.
Unless a caddie is packing a player's bags – on "cut day" or at the conclusion of the tournament – caddies are forbidden from entering the clubhouse.
Fox even aired a map of Paris that purported to outline the forbidden zones in neighborhoods including Belleville, Barbès and Père-Lachaise.
Heavy rolling was forbidden during matches a couple of years ago, much to the chagrin of batsmen up and down the land.
The road to Mecca funnels traffic into two lanes: the one marked "Muslims only" goes to the holy city; the other, marked "Non Muslims", bypasses it, since the latter – me included – are forbidden entry to Mecca (and Medina) under Saudi law.
