See this as an open letter, if you like. It needs saying in an open forum and that’s as near as I can get to one in our DigiWiki2.0 world. I’ve got something that needs saying and that needs to be heard and it is this: “You are testing my patience, Fiona Shaw.”. I was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fiona Shaw’
You are Testing my Patience, Fiona Shaw.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ENO, Fiona Shaw, The Marriage of Figaro on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
John Gabriel Borkman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Happy Days", "Hedda Gabler", Alan Rickman, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Ibsen, John Gabriel Borkman, Lindsay Duncan, Medea, New York, Nicholas Hytner, Paul Schofield, Tom Pye, Vanessa Redgrave, Virtual Friend and Theatre Twin on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My first emotion was exhilaration. Virtual Friend and Theatre Twin alerted me to the fact that Fiona Shaw was going to be appearing alongside Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman in Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman”. She is something of a theatre insider and so this knowledge was shared way before it became public knowledge – so [...]
Here we go, then…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Divorce, Family, Fiona Shaw, Jim Davidson on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In what is possibly the least hotly anticipated return to any public arena since the announcement of Jim Davidson’s return to stand-up comedy, I’m back. You will be keen for updates: “But just what HAS he done with all his books now?”, “Have his children discovered new ways to swear in front of priests?”, “Has [...]
A Slight Return
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Fiona Shaw on May 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I know it doesn’t look good – taking six weeks’ holiday – but I am back and shall be blogging again in no time. There is much to be said: of Fiona Shaw in “London Assurance” and in conversation; of the UK election; of friends and family; and of the absolute lunacy at work – [...]
Waking Up Surrounded by Pringles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Drunk, Evenings Out in Madrid, Fiona Shaw, Madrid, Old Friend at Work, Planners, Pringles, The Gathering, The Smallest Media Planner in the World on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Madrid with work – the first trip since the whole, sad divorce thing. I had been worried that it was going to be awful – and in some ways, it was (the reality of being away from everyone, and the fact that that will be a reality [...]
Fiona Shaw in “The Waste Land”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fiona Shaw, Fiona Shaw in "The Waste Land", T.S. Eliot, Wilton's Music Hall on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh happy day! Clearly Fiona Shaw reads this blog (someone has to) and she has done the right thing and decided to spend a LOT more time on stage – so, pretty much as soon as the mighty “Mother Courage and Her Children” closes its run at the National Theatre, Ms. Shaw returns to Wilton [...]
Fiona Shaw in “Mother Courage and Her Children”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Fiona Shaw in Mother Courage", "Hedda Gabler", "Mother Courage and Her Children", Antony Hopkins, Brecht, Daniel Day-Lewis, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, Judi Dench, National Theatre, Simon Russell Beale on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was my first visit to Deborah Warner’s production of this great, great play. It won’t be my last. I’ve booked tickets for two further performances and I cannot wait to see it again, and again, and again. I pretend no impartiality when I discuss this great actor. I think her Hedda Gabler is [...]
“The Power of Yes”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "All's Well That Ends Well", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "The Power of Yes", Alan Bennett, David Hare, Financial Crisis, Fiona Shaw, Me As A Protestant, Measure for Measure", National Theatre, Parents, Shakespeare on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well: I feel rather stupid. I thought I was off to the National Theatre to see “Mother Courage and Her Children” starring Fiona Shaw (a production that, in spite of its delayed Press Night and decidedly mixed reviews, I am assured by Me As A Protestant has rekindled a love for Brecht in him – [...]
Fiona Shaw – Confirmed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Long Day's Journey into Night", "Mother Courage", Antony Sher, Cleopatra, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Penn, Simon Russell Beale on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s here in black and white: Fiona Shaw opens in “Mother Courage and her Children” in a version by Tony Kushner (of “Angels in America” fame), directed by the brilliant Deborah Warner at the National Theatre in September. The poster image is a pastiche of the “shot” of Tony Blair photographing himself on his camera [...]
Terrible Theatre
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antony Hopkins, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Hilarious Researcher, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Paul Schofield, Simon Russell Beale, Theatre, Vanessa Redgrave, Wife on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch with Hilarious Researcher recently, and she (who is married to an actor, and who likes theatre) and I (who am married to a woman who does not like theatre at all) were discussing what it is to travel across London to see something truly execrable. There is nothing worse than Terrible Theatre: nothing [...]
