Lee Hall
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Re: Lee Hall
Lee has said that he would not have enjoyed the success he has if he had not been supported when he was starting out in regional theatre. He's urged MPs and future governments to protect funding for theatre, claiming that the industry’s grassroots need particular safeguarding.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/07/ ... ign=buffer
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/07/ ... ign=buffer
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Re: Lee Hall
Lee Hall Compares Translating 'Shakespeare in Love' From the Screen to the Stage to Doing an Enormous Suduko:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-hill/ ... 49657.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-hill/ ... 49657.html
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Re: Lee Hall
Lee Hall is ticked off at Newcastle City Council, and its leader:
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-east- ... ll-7966713
The thing about rich individuals giving large sums to UK charities is this: there are few tax benefits for the donor. If he or she gives a pound, it will already have been taxed at his or her rate (28%, or 40%). The charity receiving the pound can claim back the 28% or 40%, thus receiving the amount before it was taxed. The donor gets nothing else in the way of tax relief. This is one reason why universities there are desperately appealing to graduates to contribute to endowment funds, now that government support is being cut. And they establish funds in the US so that US tax paying alumni can benefit from tax relief under US laws. Oxford has scraped up a few billion in the past few years this way, but Harvard has hundreds, if not thousands, times more in its endowment portfolio.
My point: the rich, like Sting, will donate to tax shelter charities first.
The UK should consider adapting its charitable tax laws if it intends to diminish its funding of charities. It cannot have it both ways.
By the way, the Council and its leader are Labour, not Tory, though it sounds pretty Conservative to me in this matter.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-east- ... ll-7966713
The thing about rich individuals giving large sums to UK charities is this: there are few tax benefits for the donor. If he or she gives a pound, it will already have been taxed at his or her rate (28%, or 40%). The charity receiving the pound can claim back the 28% or 40%, thus receiving the amount before it was taxed. The donor gets nothing else in the way of tax relief. This is one reason why universities there are desperately appealing to graduates to contribute to endowment funds, now that government support is being cut. And they establish funds in the US so that US tax paying alumni can benefit from tax relief under US laws. Oxford has scraped up a few billion in the past few years this way, but Harvard has hundreds, if not thousands, times more in its endowment portfolio.
My point: the rich, like Sting, will donate to tax shelter charities first.
The UK should consider adapting its charitable tax laws if it intends to diminish its funding of charities. It cannot have it both ways.
By the way, the Council and its leader are Labour, not Tory, though it sounds pretty Conservative to me in this matter.
Re: Lee Hall's Cooking With Elvis in Glasgow July 10-25
Cooking With Elvis is being performed in Montreal:ERinVA wrote:If you live near Glasgow, here's your chance to see some very early, and apparently very funny, work by Lee Hall.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/fea ... y_true.php
Cooking with Elvis: a Urbi et Orbi production in collaboration with La Manufacture , theater La Licorne, 4559 Papineau Ave, Montreal, QC, Canada, until May 8 , 2015.The author of Cooking with Elvis, Lee Hall, is also the playwright behind the worldwide hit Billy Elliot I saw the film and musical. Cooking with Elvis covers completely different themes, although Lee Hall show the same sensitivity to the often tragic fate of ordinary people, a little flustered, struggling with disproportionate problems in front of which they are more often than not poor.
http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/marie-c ... rtissement
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Re: Lee Hall
Lee has teamed up with National Theatre of Scotland for new Fringe drama called Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... .126190898
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... .126190898
Re: Lee Hall
Here is another article - it sounds like a great show:
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on ... es-9312025
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on ... es-9312025
Re: Lee Hall
Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame, reveals that he is working with Lee Hall on a stage version of the group's iconic album, The Wall:
http://www.nme.com/news/roger-waters/89715
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
http://www.nme.com/news/roger-waters/89715
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
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Re: Lee Hall
I went to buy a car yesterday, knowing it was already a good-luck day in my life. Turned out the salesman had the same birthday as me too, though he was 30 years my senior. And to top it off, there was his name...Leo Hall.
Hey, listen. It was close enough for me!
Hope this car treats me well!
Hey, listen. It was close enough for me!
Hope this car treats me well!
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it." -Edward Albee
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Ellen
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-George Balanchine 1904 -1983
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-George Balanchine 1904 -1983
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Re: Lee Hall
Perhaps he's Irish and it's really Lee O'Hall. That would indeed be lucky for you.