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Post by lynette on Mar 29, 2021 21:35:05 GMT
So the real doubts about Davidson and her ‘armed robbery ‘ crap all dismissed now in face of emotional Asian person?
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Post by lynette on Mar 24, 2021 14:23:03 GMT
I’ve only ever seen him ‘old’. I liked his Lear very much, at the courtyard theatre in Stratford.
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Post by lynette on Mar 24, 2021 14:21:46 GMT
Looks like a good season, very tempting spesh for young people’s outings with older relatives...you get my drift.
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Post by lynette on Mar 23, 2021 16:42:37 GMT
So i am quickly scrolling through here. I see ducks mentioned and then recipes.....noooooo
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Post by lynette on Mar 22, 2021 19:23:55 GMT
Might well be less. Factors such as transport, parking and cost begin to matter. As far as the virus is concerned, then full vaccination and probably further vaccination due to variants before really feeling ‘free’.
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Post by lynette on Mar 22, 2021 7:13:24 GMT
Well with Ian McKellen playing Hamlet, what can we expect? Are they scouring the Italia Conti for a promising King Lear aged about 10 and a half?
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Post by lynette on Mar 22, 2021 7:11:06 GMT
What you said at the end there...so detached.
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Post by lynette on Mar 22, 2021 7:09:45 GMT
What or who do the media base their idea of the British family on? All this Christmas palaver, the cancelling of, now the summer holiday abroad. Millions of people won’t be able to afford a holiday at all this year. Oh and have you seen the ads for Easter on the telly? Tables laden with food and jokey, not so funny M&S ads? I know we all aspire and should try to remain cheerful but honestly....harrumph of the day.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 20:59:44 GMT
Let’s all go down the YOU MUST BE WELSH TO ACT IN UNDER MILK WOOD road, shall we? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO>
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 18:03:11 GMT
It’s like they can’t be bothered to do the techie work. They could have made something really good with people in their local parks cavorting etc. And if there are any pro bubbles then that would have been fun to see and good publicity. Oh well.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 13:38:00 GMT
This might use up some of the credit i have accumulated at the NT. ( don’t ask but I could prob pay for demolition of the building)
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 13:36:30 GMT
Chard Witlow: Brilliant parody by Henry Reid read by Dylan Thomas! Brilliant of course. All sorts of things to say about this like I wish I had heard it at uni when trying to decipher the poetry or later when I was trying to teach it. Can you imagine,I was teaching this to a sixth form comp group who didn't know anything about Christianity ( I swear I explained the whole of European Christianity in twenty minutes) let alone had ever read anything like it despite my best ministrations at the ‘O’ level teaching the year before. But don’t let me put you off. On the contrary, go and be mesmerised. You will be thinking of the lines in years to come.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 13:30:58 GMT
Yep that was it. Can’t remember which date I saw/heard it. Eliot has dramatic skills, no doubt, skills which funnily enough come through in this, with skilled actor, in some ways more than in his actual plays.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 12:51:00 GMT
Yep, read that: the ones without published versions except for the Folio. Interesting. Could be good with a couple of big names and decent directors. I live in hope.
By the way, I did watch Dream ( I know you are all panting fo know about it) and it wasn’t my cup of tea. It was something that was probably fun to do and a learning process for new techie skills, but had nothing to do with Shakespeare and very little to do with theatre in that it was all ‘filmed’ albeit with audience interaction. Personally I hope this isn’t the way theatre is going.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 12:47:03 GMT
Just read that they want the actors to turn up in person and no zooms allowed. Isn’t that a bit counter productive. Surely better to have a winner express delight live on a zoom than someone accept in his or her place with a dim smile? And you can rely on actors to make a bit of an ‘entrance’ even on a zoom.
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 12:45:27 GMT
That bird feeding certainly has put my bird table in its place!
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 12:43:04 GMT
‘Maul new strangers’. Nick. Things got that bad?
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Post by lynette on Mar 18, 2021 14:30:00 GMT
Hello, Prof.MM Gloomy day eh? I’m not saying it is getting better nor that it isn’t getting worse but there has been worse...if you see what I mean. I think our awareness of problems, or rather or airing in public at last of some problems, is in fact a ‘good’ thing. Wouldn’t we all like to be reading those history books when our ‘age’ is discussed, probably described as ‘the decline of Western enlightenment ‘ or ‘the rise of a new Enlightenment’ - who knows?
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Post by lynette on Mar 17, 2021 15:39:22 GMT
The big unveiling of the new UK Govt. Media briefing room at a cost of £2.6 million pounds for the renovation. I was hoping for something a bit more for the money spent. It just looks really ugly. I just hope at that price the room comes with one of those clicker devices for the slide shows. Do they choose that colour cos it is best for tv?
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Post by lynette on Mar 17, 2021 15:36:50 GMT
This will be good. Someone else did it a while ago - Stephen Dillane was it, someone will remember. It was brilliant. Will def tempt me into a theatre.
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Post by lynette on Mar 14, 2021 21:31:22 GMT
The thing I’m most dreading when this is all over is the common cold I plan to continue (or resume) wearing a mask during future flu and cold seasons. Now that we're used to seeing them, doing so in the future shouldn't draw stares. This will be interesting. Will we become more like Japan? Personally I think makes will be unusual by the end of say, ‘22.
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Post by lynette on Mar 14, 2021 21:21:40 GMT
Please do not share those images in public. For the sake of the forum, it is important to be careful about such matters. Thank you, oxfordsimon. I expect you can find images on other platforms.but we need to be careful here.
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2021 18:28:14 GMT
Bet some daft coves have a go at shoplifting for the hell of it. But sounds like the way forward to me. Follows on from just the tap of a card and all the stored details we have on our computers. Will scare the conspiracists no doubt.
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2021 18:25:20 GMT
I Care A Lot. Rosamund Pike plays a grifter running a con where she finds wealthy old folk with no family and applies to be their legal guardian on the basis that they’re incapable of looking after themselves. Then she slams them in a care home and takes control of their finances. Things go wrong when she picks the wrong little old lady to con! streaming now on Prime. Slick and very enjoyable. I’ve been reliably informed that this can’t happen in UK, different rules for old people’s care, but o my was it scary, eh?
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2021 13:22:02 GMT
I am horrified at the racial persecution of this woman. Obviously we don't know the half of it. But it wasn’t most people, most of us who had seen him grow up and even people who considered him very special, ‘our boy’ for whom no woman would be good enough. No, most people were either quite jolly about it or indifferent. I think the press should have had a good look at themselves, been more proactively ‘for’ her. They have done themselves out of a lifetime of stories and crowd pleasing photographs.
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