19 Tuesday Jan 2016
Just what it says on the tin…
Shakespearean intersection in Pittsburgh, 1955, photo by W. Eugene Smith
Lego Bard
Christine Silver en Titania, 1913 (Portrait Gallery)
An old (1989) image of the excavations of the Rose Theatre in Southwark.
02 Saturday May 2015
Posted in Theatre
Speak. How low am I? I am not yet so low. But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes!
Jean Muir and Olivia de Havilland as Helena and Hermia at each other’s throat in Reinhardt & Dieterle’s 1935 A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
On the right, eavesdropping, is Mickey Rooney’s Puck.
As a smallish woman, I’ve had a lot of fun calling taller friends painted maypoles, when height came into consideration. Taller and English-speaking: I fear that the Italian equivalents “Albero di Maggio” or (more roughly) “Albero della Cuccagna” are unwieldy and not half as effective…
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