Best trend: The Russian invasion, with the brilliant Vakhtangov Theatre's Measure for Measure and Uncle Vanya in London, and another Muscovite troupe's A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) in Stratford and Edinburgh.
For a truly fresh take on the Bard, that's to say one without an Oscar winner but with sharp perceptions aplenty, turn instead to the Almeida Theatre's "Measure For Measure," which also marks this north London venue's first foray into Shakespeare since its artistic director, Michael Attenborough, took the reins in 2003.
These days a theatre critic measures out her life in the Fiennes brothers.
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Most Acclaimed Theatre Director Active Measures Democracy Now: Arseny Roginsky Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest Seven Signs that Your Man's Masculinity Is Nontoxic Trump Furious After Nobel Committee Gives Him Participation Trophy Subscribe to The New Yorkerfor only $1 a week.Plus, get a free tote.
Lan works through the various arguments that are traditionally used, from financial benefits to social ones, but concludes, more optimistically: "The value of a theatre can be measured in the quality and quantity of the relationship it creates".
How do you measure theatre success?
Nobody would mistake Hedren for Bette Davis in theatrical craft, but, of course, the cinema isn't theatre, and the measure of performance is, rather, an aura, an expressive radiance which is sometimes even more present in varieties of inexpressivity, repression, opacity, which is exactly what Hedren delivers.
The underlying work is a first stage of the development of a physical model, as expressive as simply to be handled by surgeons, which is able to deliver prognosis for the individual case on the basis of simply and also in the operating theatre to be measured geometrical conditions (length, circumference, and geometrical angle) of the singular penis.
The security technologist Bruce Schneier coined the term "security theatre" to describe certain measures, such as post-9/11 T.S.A. pat-downs and subway bag checks, which, he says, improve feelings of security while doing little or nothing to protect people.
Quantitative measures of theatre workload and efficiency are likely to be used for decision-making in the future.
