Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories

The week when theatre-goers sat still for eight hours, the artworld shipped out to Documenta and Danny Boyle presented sheep, rainclouds, ducks and real hills for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics• Danny Boyle unveiled his set model for the Olympics opening ceremony, which looked like a lovely big train set but without the trains. Glastonbury Tor, valleys and hills, a real plough doing actual ploughing; sheep, horses, ducks and chickens; a real cricket match; rainclouds emitting real...

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