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Post by lynette on Jan 18, 2022 20:29:08 GMT
Park did a play just recently about how communities move into a neighbourhood and then move out to be replaced by another community. So this is very much on same theme and if I remember correctly a very well written piece Did it win an Olivier? Kwame probably sorry he didn’t write it though he has written good stuff himself.
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Post by lynette on Jan 18, 2022 20:25:15 GMT
In time for the ‘flurry’ of snow expected in the south-east. Is it? When? Neither the Met Office nor the BBC currently have any snow forecast for Cambridge for the next week. Hope it won't be on Thursday, when my next London theatre trip is booked. It has gone a bit chilly. I shouldn’t worry, Dawnstar. Enjoy your trip. ( wear a vest) |
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Post by lynette on Jan 16, 2022 18:31:05 GMT
I don't drive or have children. By a lot of people's logic about the licence fee I should be able to opt out of tax that pays for schools and roads. Not quite because the ambulance coming to you uses your road and other roads and the paramedic was educated in the school up the road..as it were. You benefit form general taxation. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 16, 2022 18:29:37 GMT
It is always disappointing when the BBC fails to acquire the big sporting events as it never has enough dosh for them. A separate sports channel might address that problem with a subscription to it which could be flexible and which you could pop into and out of, so when the big ones are up, you join and pay enhanced fee then leave if you want to; probably a lot of people would join up and stay joined up. Earlier in the thread there is a pic of all the stuff contained in the licence fee. But I do not want all of that. Most people don't want all of it. BBC3? No thanks, CBeebies, nope not now thanks. And the radio is not part of it anyway. You can have a radio blasting out any BBC station with no licence required. I don’t expect to pay for the lobster on the menu just because the restaurant is offering it when I want to eat the salad. But isn't that exactly the argument for why you pay your licence in the first place? You like watching some things. Your licence pays for that. Others educated their kids via Cbeebies. Licence covers that. Point is, we all pay in and we all get something back. Do you insist on driving on every patch of road in Britain because your tax helped pay for it? No, you use a small slice of it and you pay a small slice of money for it. Good point. Taxation covers us all and we pay for all that we allow our governments to do. I do not want a high speed train to Birmingham ( who on earth does ?) but I am paying for it, a few pennies.. and so on and so on but there are roads you pay for, toll roads and you can choose not to go on them. I would pay for what I want , like theatre, like cinema, like books ( yes there are libraries so there is some choice here but the main point applies) In many ways I am playing devil’s advocate because my love of such programmes as Strictly has no bounds but tbh I can name only a very few proggies on BBC I always watch. The other channels and the other platforms offer me and interestingly, have offered me during this blasted last two years, much more. Maybe it is something about the talent being spread too thinly. After all, in the olden days, if you wanted to put on a play on the telly, there was no other place to go. Lovely stories of the big names then just strolling in with scripts and being put on the following week. But not now. The BBC has taken on all our current angst but not the creativity and the flexibility. Just saying. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 16, 2022 18:18:09 GMT
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Post by lynette on Jan 16, 2022 18:12:34 GMT
It is always disappointing when the BBC fails to acquire the big sporting events as it never has enough dosh for them. A separate sports channel might address that problem with a subscription to it which could be flexible and which you could pop into and out of, so when the big ones are up, you join and pay enhanced fee then leave if you want to; probably a lot of people would join up and stay joined up.
Earlier in the thread there is a pic of all the stuff contained in the licence fee. But I do not want all of that. Most people don't want all of it. BBC3? No thanks, CBeebies, nope not now thanks. I don’t expect to pay for the lobster on the menu just because the restaurant is offering it when I want to eat the salad.
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Post by lynette on Jan 16, 2022 18:01:50 GMT
Radio completely separate, no fee required.
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Post by lynette on Jan 15, 2022 23:03:58 GMT
Fortunately the heating engineer came at 10am this morning & replaced the part so the heating is working again. Hopefully it won't break again for a while. In time for the ‘flurry’ of snow expected in the south-east. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 15, 2022 23:02:33 GMT
I hope the Queen does see him. The audience with the Queen should sober him up a bit.
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Post by lynette on Jan 13, 2022 21:14:50 GMT
Dropping the BP dosh was a mistake imo. Lots they could have done to mitigate the idea of ‘oil’ money. They could have asked for more! Anyway, water or in this case petrol under the bridge now. Need solid big money plan. Big sponsorship and strong programming with star names to bring in the doubters. The Yankee dollar is important but unless RSC is present there to a degree, it disappears.
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2022 18:22:58 GMT
I think the fall out, political, economic, psychological, is so huge that there will be many so called ‘stories’ coming out on any day and the media will pick which ones they want to push. They will always go for the personal, Johnson, Andrew , Dojkevic over the more nuanced financial stuff.
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Post by lynette on Jan 10, 2022 18:03:19 GMT
Just back from Aldi with another four boxes of mince pies, to add to the nine I've already got in the pantry. Well they are now 9p for half a dozen! You should see how many tubes of Smarties I have...not to mention the Jelly Tots...and the Matchmakers... What’s the use by/eat by date? Or can you freeze? |
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Post by lynette on Jan 10, 2022 17:57:00 GMT
It was ok when I saw it last time round but not overwhelmingly so. Nice dinner beforehand maybe and with old friends , it would make a nice evening. Note, the place next door isn’t the wonderful Lebanese restaurant it used to be despite being still the same name, the cottage. Go round the corner and the original people are there , good food.
ps they ask you to put on masks just before a play starts so catches all those nonmaskers, very good idea.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2022 22:39:29 GMT
I quite agree, we should write down what we know now because it will be more difficult for our descendants to get the info. I already have that responsibility with family photos and i am the only person who knows who they are! I wasn’t a particularly observant child but I do think I knew more about my family tree as a kid than my adult kids know now.
As for shoddy transcriptions, yes they had my grandad’s name wrong, an unusual name but still and you don't have to pay for finding an individual. But you do for asking for the actual census page with that individual on it.
They say they won’t do another census in this way. Too difficult. Shame really.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2022 19:31:25 GMT
You have to pay for the actual census entry page but you can get the info free. The actual page is of course what you want as it will have all the info, siblings, occupations etc. Many of us will never see ourselves on a census cos 31 was destroyed in a fire, 41 not done cos of the War and 51 won’t be released for years.. a bit mean to have to pay but the company that does it is commercial, gov funds not stretching to it being accessible. The next release will be in 2052. Think I'll wait for that one. Me too 🥂 |
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2022 17:31:17 GMT
You have to pay for the actual census entry page but you can get the info free. The actual page is of course what you want as it will have all the info, siblings, occupations etc. Many of us will never see ourselves on a census cos 31 was destroyed in a fire, 41 not done cos of the War and 51 won’t be released for years.. a bit mean to have to pay but the company that does it is commercial, gov funds not stretching to it being accessible.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2022 8:53:40 GMT
A couple of the Willie’s and a new ‘play’ about colonialism set in two or three time periods with a cast of actors who speak in different languages. Betcha. ( yep that kinda day..)
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2022 16:26:05 GMT
Well, tbh, now you have set it out and thank you for doing that, I can see only two productions I would book for. Of the others, one I have seen in real life, and one online.
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2022 16:21:03 GMT
Have to say I watched Toast and just didn't get it. Just a man banging his head on a table for 5 minutes and lots of shouting. Not my idea of comedy I'm afraid. Might be an age thing. Didn’t get it either. Unfunny imo, something about they way he spoke. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 5, 2022 22:42:43 GMT
On boy actors. A long time ago..at a boys’ school I saw Othello. The boys playing the women’s parts were totally convincing and made me realise how serious the acting of boys in women’s roles would have been in Shakespeare’s time. But I always think that Shakespeare must have seen women act, his roles or other people’s because they are so on the money. I’m thinking private house parties. It wasn’t that long after his day that actresses arrived in England from France with CII’s court who would have been v familiar with the idea as would their pals who stayed at home but in contact with France. Just musing as ever.
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Post by lynette on Jan 3, 2022 17:43:37 GMT
I guess the short answer is no, but times are changing. Our best Shakespearean actors come from a time in place where they were trained as stage actors, before screen acting was seen as a viable career path, and the closest thing to a franchise was working your way through the Shakespeare canon. That isn’t the reality for the generations that came next, but we still have a decent crop of actors wanting to perform Shakespeare. David Tennant, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jude Law, Andrew Scott, James McAvoy, Tom Hiddleston, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear all in the 40 - 50 age bracket and all have performed Shakespeare on stage and/or screen in recent times. Incidentally, all opted to perform Shakespeare after finding success as part of a large screen franchise - Marvel, X-Men, Doctor Who, Bond etc. So whilst I guess being a great Shakespearean actor isn’t the backbone of acting it might once have been, there is still an attraction to performing Shakespeare after Hollywood comes knocking. In the 30 - 40 bracket, I guess we have Kit Harrington and Richard Madden doing the same, both known primarily for Game of Thrones and opting to perform Shakespeare afterwards (though Kit’s is upcoming). Ben Whishaw was actually nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in Hamlet in 2004, which was long before he joined Bond so not always Shakespeare after a film franchise 😊 And Tennant was at the RSC slogging away well before Dr Who. Same with Kinnear, best Tranio I’ve seen. Spose if you didn't see these guys early on you wouldn’t know but most of the people we think have become ‘famous’ post tv/movie role have worked hard well before. If you read Brian Cox’s autobiography, you can see just how hard these actors have to work. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 1, 2022 0:44:38 GMT
Played hide and seek with the small ones. The 4 year old took me over to the hedge and we just stood by it and he assured me that would work. Credit to his younger sister who pretended to not see us for some time. Lots of hiding in full sight. It is funny. I don't know when they twig. 😁 |
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Post by lynette on Dec 26, 2021 22:33:35 GMT
I got in quickly, wasn't sure about the 'narrow seat' warnings on front stalls so went for a more central rear circle seat. Finally managed to use my credit from Dick Whittington! Next time, give those front seats a whirl, they’re brilliant IMO. A bit cramped imo spesh at the moment… |
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Post by lynette on Dec 26, 2021 19:55:34 GMT
Every Christmas my dad recounts a proverb his uncle got in a cracker, that no one understood to this day. Maybe someone here has heard of it? "It's an ill will that blows from the soap factory." In the olden days ( before my time stop sniggering ) they used to make soap from animal fats so there would be a bit of a whiff, no? That might explain it but as a proverb it doesn’t explain it. The proverb is “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ so this is a version.. |
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Post by lynette on Dec 26, 2021 19:47:31 GMT
Enjoyed the first two episodes of Around the World in Eighty Days. Some psychological stuff ( three travellers , all with ‘baggage’ ) which I didn't expect having been brought up on the David Niven version. Tennant doing what Tennant does best. And some dramatic moments. Nothing you can’t watch with grandma or the kids.
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