Category: Theatre
Travel Plans 2014
I am so excited I am almost beside myself. If there were two of me, we would be jumping up and down and hugging each other. But since it’s just me, myself and I, we will all three of us settle down […]
Warming up for an Execution
I have the great honour of being, temporarily, part of an ensemble theatre company for a pretty special production. “Mary Stuart” was written by the German poet, playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller around 1803, and while it is considered part of German […]
I Talk of Dreams
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on”, says Prospero, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I have a good friend, a very experienced Shakespearean actor, who would happily change that to “made of”, claiming that otherwise nobody understands what it means. I disagree, for […]
Did My Heart Love Till Now?
My students hear those words a lot these days, whenever I need to demonstrate a particular teaching point that involves placing my voice at the disposal of sounds that combine to make words that combine to make phrases, sentences – in other […]
Two weeks in Seattle with the family are almost over. It’s been wonderful watching my grandson playing baseball and soccer (and having him beat me at chess), and my granddaughter colouring in with great precision and attention to shades of purple. I’ve been […]
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Tagged Gifts of War, KT Speechworks, Mariners