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Form and substance

06 Friday May 2022

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form and substance, shakespeare, technique, theatre, writing

It mostly comes in two flavours.

Flavour the first: now and then, when I hyperventilate over some (more or less) minute detail gone wrong in a play, a story, a talk, or whatnot, some sympathetic soul will try to convince me that it was a negligible hitch in the form – but the substance was there, and substance is what truly matters…

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The times, such as they are

25 Friday Feb 2022

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Ukraine, war

We write to a deadline, we drive to Town and back, we run around rehearsing the next play, we listen to the news, we bake sweets, we take the cat at the vet’s and discuss geopolitics in the waiting room, we watch from the window the first wood-pigeon drinking in the pond – back from wherever it is they go to winter – we hunt for that one missing prop, we listen to more news, we worry about friends over there – who live with their bags packed up in the hall, ready to run at a moment’s notice – and we wonder how all this will read in history books, a century or two from now. We write on, we muse on crumbling empires, we marvel at the flowers of an early spring, we go through rehearsing schedules on the phone, we shake our heads in disbelief at the TV set, we hire on for big translation jobs, we frankly have no idea what will happen next, we go on writing, and we just can’t help the thought: by the time the deadline comes, what will the world look like?

Londons

13 Thursday Jan 2022

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Agas map, Braun and Hogenberg, Horwood's Plan, Know Your London, London, Romantic London

Oh, I don’t know…

This is in part because, after two years, I’m very much missing London. And besides, I’m working on Book 2 of the Tom Walsingham Mysteries, so I’m up to my ears in research…

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So let’s begin!

06 Thursday Jan 2022

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2022, New Year resolutions, Procrastination, the Anansi Archive

So here we go – New Year and all… and let me say that I’m slightly surprised at myself. And I’m slightly surprised because, for once and for a wonder, I don’t seem to be suffering from January Blues – or at least not much.

More than slightly, perhaps, especially when you consider the times we are living in… but still. Continue reading →

Years, like circles

30 Thursday Dec 2021

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Happy New Year, Poetry, Turlough O'Carolan

Another year very nearly gone, you see? Another year in this strange, unsettled era of ours. Another plague year…

Did you do what you had set out to do this year, o Readers? I find that I hadn’t set out to do too much. Well yes, I hazily meant to write more, to step into my new director’s shoes, to move a little – oh yes: and to write one cheerful thing. I suppose that, at some level, I found it safer to play it by ear? Continue reading →

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‘Tis the Season…

24 Friday Dec 2021

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Christmas wishes

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History and/or art (and all the rest)

07 Thursday Oct 2021

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Art history, education, Italy, school

Like most people in Italy, I studied some Art History for three years, back in Grammar School. A couple of hours a week or so, starting on the third year…. and I remember that I’d been looking forward to it – if in a rather hazy way. I didn’t quite know what to expect – but, at fifteen, I had no doubts that a subject with “history” in its name just had to be wonderful.

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Ends and Beginnings

31 Thursday Dec 2020

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2020, 2021, new year, pandemic

So it ends, at last, this strangest of years, this near dystopia with the world turned on its head, and the plague, and the fear, and the measures of containment, and the uncanny parallels with Shakespeare’s London and Manzoni’s Milan… Continue reading →

Christmas Wishes

25 Friday Dec 2020

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Christmas wishes

There isn’t much that is merry about this Christmas – but still… One can wish light, and warmth, and hope…

Row I, Seat 9

17 Thursday Dec 2020

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chestnuts, Don Carlo, Giuseppe Verdi, memories, Opera

I was looking for my little stash of those tiny bulbs you have on old fashioned strings of Christmas lights, you know what I mean – and instead I found, of all things, the ticket of my first Don Carlo. Continue reading →

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