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Oscar Wilde on Theatre

26 Saturday May 2018

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Oscar Wilde, theatre

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On the Pointlessness of Losing One’s Temper

24 Thursday May 2018

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losing one's temper, patience, rehearsals, School play, students, theatre

So… the day after tomorrow we go onstage.

The School Play, I mean. In theory, we should be doing last-minute tweaks, fine-tuning… In theory all should be well and as good as ready. In theory it should be time of a tech rehearsal, dress rehearsal, and then curtain-up…

Except, well – you know… theatre. Continue reading →

Shakespeare and freedom at the SQ

19 Saturday May 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Books, History, Theatre

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Ewan Fernie, Folger library, Paul Kottman, Shakespeare Quarterly

And then there is the Shakespeare Quarterly, the Folger Library’s journal – that has a double life, as a physical publication and as its web version. No need to stress that the SQ is always full of interesting essays, articles, insights, interviews, and is a great way to have to pulse of ongoing Shakespearean research.

Have a look, for instance, at this conversation with Ewan Fernie and Paul Kottman about freedom: Shakespeare and freedom, freedom in Shakespeare’s works, freedom and Shakespearean studies – together with a good hint at the always interesting question of how, apparently, no time can help the temptation of building its own Shakespeare.

Well worth a look – and an exploration of the good amounts of SQ material available online.

 

 

 

The thing with tenors

17 Thursday May 2018

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Attila, Characterization, Don Carlos, Il Trovatore, Opera, Samuel Ramey, tenors, Thomas Hampson, Turandot

I’ve had for years No Tenors Allowed, this lovely CD of opera duets for bass and baritone, with Thomas Hampson and Samuel Ramey singing a variety of pieces, from comic to dramatic to downright tragic – and clearly having great fun with the whole thing.

I love it to bits – but then again, not only Hampson and Ramey are two of my favourite opera singers ever, but I have always had a soft spot for bass and baritone voices – and characters. Continue reading →

Drawing Books

12 Saturday May 2018

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Drawing, Joshua Landsman

I’ve always wanted to draw – and it rather pains me that I cannot. But really, as we say in my corner of the world, I can’t draw an O around a glass…

I usually live with my lack of drawing skills, but now and then it will up and bite me.  Continue reading →

A Play – Hatching

10 Thursday May 2018

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rehearsals, School play, theatre

Here we go: the School Play – now officially titled Faults of the Fathers, will go onstage in a couple of weeks, and we are hard at work on it. Yesterday afternoon, as I arrived at the Tiny Theatre for rehearsals, I met a friend and colleague at the door.

“How’s it going?” he asked – and I said it’s going the right kind of dreadfully for two-weeks-from-curtain-up, which is frightening to the students but quite typical, and quite true.

And last night’s rehearsals were a perfect illustration of what I mean. Let’s see… Continue reading →

Marlowe Bibliography Online

05 Saturday May 2018

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annotated bibliography, christopher marlowe, Marlowe Bibliography Online, Marlowe Society of America, scholarship, University of Melbourne

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Described as

an initiative of the Marlowe Society of America and the University of Melbourne. Its purpose is to facilitate scholarship on the works of Christopher Marlowe by providing a searchable annotated bibliography of relevant scholarship…

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Alexandros, after all

03 Thursday May 2018

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Alexander the Great, Alexandros, favourite poems, Giovanni Pascoli, History, poems

I’ve been musing on first favourite poems – and, after some consideration, I’ve come to the conclusion that my first favourite poem must have been Giovanni Pascoli’s Alexandros. Which is a tad strange because, as a rule, I don’t enormously like Pascoli – a late 19th/early 20th century Italian poet with a rather pathetic vein, only saved, in my admittedly biased view, by a keen interest in history.

Narrative poems, you know. Stories – the usual obsession. Continue reading →

First Favourite Poem

28 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Poetry

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Chitra Banerjee, Poetry, Tessa Fontaine

Not quite poetry today – but a lovely article about poetry: finding poetry, and keeping it in one’s life, as happened to Tessa Fontaine. Continue reading →

Screen, Stage, Page

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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Christabelle Dilks, David Grimm, Jeffery Sweet, Molly Naylor, MOOC, play-writing, Screenwriting, University of East Anglia

It doesn’t qualify as something new – not by any stretch of the imagination – but I’ve enrolled in a MOOC with the University of East Anglia, called Introduction to Screenwriting.

“Were you getting bored?” my friend Mita asked, the tiniest tad sarcastically… And of course not, but it’s a two-week course, small enough to fit into a hectic-ish schedule, right before the school-play-madness begins… And, what’s more, Week One so far is proving full of food for thought. Continue reading →

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