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 – so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’
“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 »
Enthusiasm for Elitism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Elitism, G.K.Chesterton, George Steiner, Hanif Kureishi, Ideas, Shakespeare, Work on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The G.K.Chesterton experiment continues – and I am enjoying it – but I became aware not that long after my first steps into Lake Chesterton, that I would want something else to complement its cool, lapping and soothing waters: that “something” has turned out to be George Steiner.
Steiner is a long-term hero of mine, ever [...]
Offski Pops
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Wife, Shakespeare, Family, Me As A Protestant, Madame de Sade, "Duet for One", Juliet Stevenson, Henry Goodman, The Bridge Project, Mishima on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Holiday!
Is there a better feeling? Wife and I and the children leave for France tomorrow, to spend half-term recovering from a non-stop schedule of shoots (in her case) and too many conversations of the “Is it “Intelligence” or “Wisdom”?” variety in my case.
I am also looking to recover from the draining effects of seeing [...]
Internet Joy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fiona Shaw, Internet, Shakespeare, Wife on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the last ten days, the Internet has given me the following presents:-
A T-Shirt (for Best Friend) emblazoned with the slogan “I LOVE MY VAGINA” (originally from Lesbian Pride – so there it is as a bold declamation, untempered by anything such as ironic, Clerkenwell-lite typography.
A copy of “Shakespeare’s Ambiguity” – a masterly piece of [...]
Bashing Baz Luhrman.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baz Luhrman, La Boheme, Shakespeare, Sky Arts on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not timely to say this, given the critical licking that his film “Australia” has just been given, but I adore Baz Luhrman.
His film of “Romeo and Juliet” is the best version of that play ever filmed (it certainly shows Zeffirelli’s version up as no more than an old queen’s ad for Verona and calf [...]
Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1599, Alan Bennett, Bill Bryson, Proust, Shakespeare on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remember an occasion from my University-besmirched past, talking to Me As A Protestant about Alan Bennett’s recently televised “102 Boulevard Haussmann”, his television play about Proust, he said: “Oh God, what a combination: Alan Bennett and Proust.”
Now I am a fan of both those people, subscribing to the (not exactly revolutionary) idea that “A [...]
Exhaustion and Champagne
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crillon, Shakespeare, Work on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This has been an absolute shitter of a week, with so much to do that I have started workdays at 5am, and finished at 11pm on three occasions. Add to that a trip to Milan, and it’s no surprise that I’ve just had 14 hours’ sleep, and am looking forward to this Bank Holiday Weekend [...]
Drunk and Shouting About Shakespeare
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Drunk, Shakespeare on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 23rd November 2007
I got pissed on Monday night: I felt like I had a herd of marauding swine in my head all day Tuesday and was seconds away from punching nearly all of my work colleagues in the face.
However, Monday night saw me drunkenly telling someone my (too) honest opinion of the agency she’d [...]
“I Have Seen A Lot of Penises”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Happy Days", "King Lear", Fiona Shaw, Ian McKellen's Penis, Shakespeare, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 12th January 2007
No: it’s not the next volume of Jordan’s autobiography, it was a comment made in my very own Drawing Room last night by a very serious lady (60 years old at least) and it was a bit of a show-stopper.
It turns out that the great and celebrated actor, Sir Ian McKellen has [...]
