The Tuesday Muse – The Classroom.

(It’s only Wednesday and computer access has been sparse so I’m still Tuesday-Musing! Anyway..) When delving into a book entitled ‘Introductions To Shakespeare’ (a collection written by lots of well-known people, nearly all (if  not all) who have acted in a play or two by said playwright), I came across this marvellous piece by Ralph [...]

‘Hedda Gabler’ Theatre Royal, Bath, March 2010.

All hail the power of the Pike, she MADE this show. It was pretty standard Henrik Ibsen stuff: domesticity, depression, suicide, loveless marriages, restricted females, boredom of life, it just screams social realism really, but the performance really brought the words to life. Literally, obviously. And, pleasantly, it built up gradually in excitement and action [...]

Like dancing? Watch this!

Now this is REAL dancing. I am so fed up of the incessant barrage of television programmes with titles like ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ (which is, disgustingly, so frequently abbreviated to ‘Strictly’.  *vomits*), ‘Got To Dance’, and so on and so forth, and the level of dancing in it is [...]

‘Our Country’s Good’, WCS, Feb 2010.

Think yourselves privileged actors, I had to create a whole new category for you darlings. A quaint building that looked like a cross between a village hall and a barn hosted Wells Cathedral School’s production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s epic ‘Our Country’s Good’. I feel this may have worked in their favour though, as the director [...]