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Spectator
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
A cremation caper: Stealing Dad, by Sofka Zinovieff, reviewed
Sophocles's Antigone is a battle over the burial of a body and the war between law and divinity. What rules – the decree of a king or conscience? This is the crux of Sofka Zinovieff's Stealing Dad. When Alekos, a Greek sculptor, is struck down in 2018 by a heart attack and drowns in a London canal, he leaves behind not just a spiky widow, Heather, but seven children and five colourful ex-wives.
Hans India
01-05-2025
- General
- Hans India
Happy Labour Day 2025: Wishes, Quotes & Messages to Honour Workers Worldwide
International Labour Day, also known as May Day or Workers' Day, is celebrated annually on May 1. In 2025, the occasion falls on a Thursday. This global observance is a tribute to the dedication, perseverance, and efforts of workers across all professions. It also serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for labour rights and fair treatment. Labour Day highlights the vital role of the working class in building economies and shaping societies. It is a day to both celebrate their contributions and advocate for their rights. History and Significance of Labour Day The roots of International Labour Day trace back to the labour movement of the late 19th century in the United States. On May 1, 1886, a strike advocating for an eight-hour workday began, marking a historic push for workers' rights. This movement laid the foundation for today's global recognition of labourers. Labour Day symbolizes the balance between work and personal life and underscores the importance of dignity in labour. It is also a day for rallies, peaceful protests, and community events to raise awareness about labour issues. Best Labour Day 2025 Wishes and Greetings • Wishing you a Happy Labour Day! Your hard work and dedication deserve all the recognition and appreciation today and every day. • May you enjoy a well-earned break this Labour Day. Your commitment and resilience are truly inspiring. • Happy May Day! Celebrating the vital contributions of workers around the world—your efforts matter more than words can express. • On this day, may your dedication lead to even greater success and fulfilment. Happy International Labour Day! • Warm wishes on May Day! Your persistence and passion fuel progress—thank you for everything you do. • Enjoy this special day as a token of appreciation for all your efforts. You make a real difference. • Take pride in the value you bring to the world through your hard work. Happy Labour Day! • Here's to all the workers who make our world better every day. Wishing you a joyful Labour Day! • May this Labour Day rejuvenate your spirit and energize your journey ahead. • On this occasion, let's celebrate the real heroes—our workers! Wishing you happiness, rest, and gratitude today. Inspirational Labour Day Quotes to Share • 'All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.' – Martin Luther King Jr. • 'Without labour, nothing prospers.' – Sophocles • 'Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.' – George Sand • 'Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation.' – Tom Perez • 'Labour Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.' – James P. Hoffa • 'For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound.' – Randi Weingarten • 'As we celebrate Labor Day, we honour the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights.' – Elizabeth Esty • 'All workers contribute to the success of society. This day is about celebrating every hand that builds, heals, and serves.' ________________________________________ WhatsApp and Facebook Status for Labour Day 2025 • Happy Labour Day! A day to honour those who work hard every single day to keep the world running. • Today we celebrate the creators, the builders, the doers—our workers. Thank you for your tireless efforts. • Labour Day is more than a holiday—it's a tribute to every hardworking soul making a difference. • Saluting those who labour with pride, persistence, and purpose. Happy Workers' Day! • Wishing all workers a peaceful and joyful May Day. Your contributions make the world a better place. • May this Labour Day remind us all that every job holds value and dignity. Thank you for your service. • A shout-out to the workforce that powers our lives with unseen dedication. Your efforts are appreciated every day. • This May Day, let's pledge to support fair treatment and justice for all workers across the globe. • Celebrate the worker in you and others. Rest well and recharge—Happy Labour Day 2025! • Behind every achievement is the silent strength of workers. Today, we thank and honour them.
News18
01-05-2025
- General
- News18
International Labour Day 2025: Wishes, Quotes, Messages, And WhatsApp Status To Share On May 1
Last Updated: International Labour Day 2025: The day is celebrated to honour the workers who fought for their rights, including better working conditions and fairer working hours. International Labour Day 2025: Also known as International Workers Day observed annually on May 1. The day is celebrated to honour the workers who fought for their rights, including better working conditions and fairer working hours. Labour Day also serves as a platform for the working-class people to voice their demands for fair wages and reminds the government and society of the importance of protecting workers' rights and improving workplace conditions. On this International Labour Day, share these Wishes, Quotes, Messages, and WhatsApp Statuses with the hardworking people. International Labour Day 2025: Wishes Happy International Labour Day! You encourage us every day to dream of a better future. Today, we celebrate your struggle, contribution, and passion that keeps the world moving forward. Happy May Day! Your hard work and dedication are commendable. Cheers to all the workers. Here's to the workers who build the world with their hands. Happy International Labour Day! Your hard work deserves recognition every day. Enjoy your May Day! International Labour Day: Quotes 'All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." – Martin Luther King Jr. 'Without labour, nothing prospers." – Sophocles. 'Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness." – Greek proverb. 'Before the reward there must be labour. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." – Ralph Ransom. 'There is no substitute for hard work." – Thomas Edison. International Labour Day: Messages Labour Day reminds us that every worker has a role in making this world a better place. Happy International Workers' Day! Let's honour all the hardworking people of the world. Happy Labour Day! Your hard work and dedication deserve appreciation every day. Wishing you a Happy International Workers' Day! The future belongs to those who have a passion for hard work—saluting your spirit on Labour Day. May every worker get a healthy work environment. Happy May Day! International Labour Day: WhatsApp Status Hard work is the way to success. Happy May Day! Every worker deserves respect and dignity. Wishing a proud Labour Day to all! To every worker, a joyous May Day! A big shout out to your struggle, hard work, and dedication. Let's celebrate the achievements of the workers. Happy May Day! The News18 Lifestyle section brings you the latest on health, fashion, travel, food, and culture — with wellness tips, celebrity style, travel inspiration, and recipes. Also Download the News18 App to stay updated! First Published: Latest News International Labour Day 2025: Wishes, Quotes, Messages, And WhatsApp Status To Share On May 1 Lifestyle Lifestyle Why May 1 Is Celebrated As Maharashtra Day And Gujarat Day? History, Significance, And Wishes to Share Cricket IPL 2025, RR Vs MI : Head-To-Head Stats, Probable XIs, Players To Watch, Weather Forecast & Jaipur Pitch Report Movies Kavita Krishnamurthy On Pakistani Artists Ban In India: 'Music Has No Religion' Movies Priyanka Chopra Calls WAVES 2025 'Historic', Thanks PM Modi For Industry Support latest news
The Guardian
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The best theatre to stream this month: The Lion King, Churchill in Moscow, The Other Place and more
Talk about the circle of life: past stars of the leonine juggernaut's stage and screen versions reunite in this 30th anniversary concert in Los Angeles. Singer-composer Lebo M, Jeremy Irons and Nathan Lane are among a cast that also includes Jennifer Hudson, who delivers the opening number surrounded by those spectacular puppets. On Disney+. What happened in the summer of 1942 when Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin held a secret meeting at the Kremlin? Howard Brenton gives us an account of the high-stakes encounter with 'spikily poetic dialogue and laugh-aloud gags'. Available 11-14 March. The Pina Bausch Foundation has an extraordinarily comprehensive archive to take dance-lovers deep down the rabbit hole. There are videos of international successes Palermo Palermo and Café Müller but also of the German trailblazer's first piece with Tanztheater Wuppertal, Fritz, which premiered in 1974. Before London's current double whammy of Sophocles (an underrated Oedipus at the Old Vic and an irksome Elektra at the Duke of York's), Alexander Zeldin directed this modern version of Antigone. Emma D'Arcy and Alison Oliver play the sisters and there is music by Yannis Philippakis from Foals. On National Theatre at Home from 20 March. Emma Rice's bittersweet musical about love among chocolatiers, staged in 2017 as her departing show from Shakespeare's Globe, finally gets a cast recording. Captured in 2020 at Bristol Old Vic, with Marc Antolin and Carly Bawden in the lead roles, it's orchestrated by the great Simon Hale. Sam White directs a lucid and engrossing revival of Alice Childress's play about the secret love between a Black seamstress and a white baker during the 1918 flu epidemic in South Carolina. Immaculately staged at Canada's Stratford festival in 2023, it's now available through a subscription to Stratfest@Home. Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss's all-conquering Six is one of the most streamed musical theatre albums of all time. The duo's follow-up, about good mates and bad dates, closed early at the Garrick but is not short of earworms. A recording will be released on 14 March – with a bonus appearance from Patti LuPone on an extended version of Men R Trash. Christian Spuck choreographed this 'dance play' based on Gustave Flaubert's novel for his debut production as artistic director at the Staatsballett Berlin in 2023. Weronika Frodyma stars as the heroine, searching like a sailor for hope on the horizon. On Marquee TV.
The Guardian
25-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The play that changed my life: Sing Sing's Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison
When I came to the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) theatre at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1995, I'd been sentenced to 17 years for robbery. It was not my intention to watch a play. They were doing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I saw my brother Dino who was playing Big Chief, the Native American guy. I knew Dino from elsewhere in the jail, but not for this. I got involved. I found a fascination for Shakespeare that I really didn't expect. I didn't think I'd understand the language. And I didn't at first. But it fascinated me enough to research and study it: I loved becoming able to translate that so that others could feel the intensity of it. After being restricted to just watching for a year, I went on to play so many roles. I played a nobleman's ghost who comes back to haunt Richard III. That was a fun role; minimal lines, but a ton of expression. Twelve Angry Men was another good one. The most poignant role in my life, though, would be Oedipus Rex. Because Oedipus ran from a prediction and then right into the consequences of that prediction. That was kind of parallel to my life, because I realised that I had been running away from and straight back into the same issues. I learned that about myself while doing Sophocles. There's a freedom that comes with being on stage. As a prisoner locked in a six-by-nine, or a Black man in society, your liberty is limited to certain things. The connection that I got from the stage came from not only playing those characters but also researching how they lived. Those were the times that I realised that I wasn't even in prison any more. I was freer than the guards. I went to Greece in my imagination. I went everywhere. I was freer than most men on the planet because I was able to go anywhere I wanted to, become anyone I wanted. All of these lives that might parallel some things in my own life – or might not. Maybe something completely different, you know? Most nights, it was my peers, my brothers, coming to see me. But on the last night of every production, we invited playwrights, directors, producers from Broadway. Politicians would come, and Harry Belafonte came, which thrilled my mother. Something that related to a current event or issue was always laid down somewhere in the play. So we began working on the messages that we wanted to send to the other side of the wall through art – including our own play Breakin' the Mummy's Code, which provides the structure for the movie Sing Sing and in which I play a version of myself. The RTA company changed as new people came and others went home or got transferred to other prisons. But the core stayed the same and we created a steering committee who were elected by the group and were charged with the day-to-day functions and keeping the integrity of the programme up to standard. Fortunately, I never got transferred. When I came home in 2012, I had six more classes to get my bachelor's. I was working and I was going to school at night to complete my degree in behavioural science. All while I was still on parole. Then I had to either graduate with the guys that I was going to college with on the outside or return to Sing Sing and walk the stage with RTA. I chose to go back. The six classes weren't really the struggle. That's the moral root – we want to keep brothers hopeful on the inside that change is possible. The Oscar stuff [Sing Sing is nominated for three Academy Awards) is hopeful on a personal level, of course, and people inside get to see that we can reach the highest echelons if we so choose. But it's easy to just treat it as this trendy thing, to be the 'ex-offender turned good'. It's not as easy as that. Now after the Oscars I've got another movie I'm going to start shooting in April. But the stage is where you go to get replenished. This is where you go to sharpen your sword as an actor and get the tool right. And get that feeling of an ensemble sharing the pressure of the next scene. You don't get that with the screen, you can't get it. That little camera lens is really not big enough. As told to Lindesay Irvine Sing Sing is in cinemas worldwide and Clarence Maclin is nominated for best adapted screenplay at the 2025 Academy Awards on 3 March.
