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05 Thursday Sep 2019

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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…

Eight months and pennies! Where have I been all this time? Where has all this time gone while I wasn’t watching?

The fact is, I had a rather nasty flu just after Christmas, and it took me more than a month to be back on my feet, and afterwards… I don’t know. I hadn’t posted a single line in either of my blogs for the whole of January, and then… and then. It’s the way these things happen, I’m told.

But now I’m back. I’ve wanted to be back for some time – only, it was summer, when a) blog life slows down, and b) bloggers grow lazy… well, lazier. So I thought I’d wait for September, and here I am.

What have I been up to, these past eight months – beside not blogging? Well, I’ve translated and adapted a lot for the Company (I’ll tell you more about this in time), I’ve decided to write a short story every month (and stuck with it so far), I’ve sent Out There my novel and a couple of the stories, I’ve directed two school plays (one in collaboration, one on my own), I’ve gone ahead with a (very) long term project of reorganising my study, I’ve spent three lovely days in Florence with my mother, I’ve had my yearly Reading Week, I’ve enjoyed a good deal of great theatre with the Summer Season, I’ve hunted about virtual bookstalls for Paul Roche’s translation of Prometheus Bound, I’ve put together a special Palcoscenico di Carta/The Paper Stage (happening tonight), and I’m afraid I have parted ways with the Squirrels…

So yes, I have plenty to tell you. The plan is a very straightforward one: I’ll go back to my leisurely ways, and post once a week, on Thursdays. I hope you’ll forgive the long hiatus and join me again for the ride. I’ve missed you, O Readers.

Let’s start again, shall we?

Today in Theatre History

08 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Stories, Theatre

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Yes, it has a watermark. I found it on Look and Learn...

Yes, it has a watermark. I found it on Look and Learn…

Not quite today, perhaps – in fact, the day before yesterday: on 6 September 1642, an act of Parliament shut down all English theatres for good…

Well, no – that wasn’t to be, of course (and we may like to think that you can’t just abolish theatre like that) but such was the intention of those kill-joys, the Puritans. Truth be told, they and their fathers and grandfathers had been harping about it all through Elizabeth’s reign, and James’ as well, and Charles’ – plays, players and playhouses being clearly the devil’s work and the source of all kinds of evils. Still, it seems that taking theatre away from the English was not all that easy, and for decades, theatre-wise, Puritans hadn’t managed much more than to make an egregious nuisance of themselves. By 1642 things had changed, they controlled Parliament and were in a position to obtain a complete ban on playing, ostensibly on the grounds of “unseemliness” – of all things. Continue reading →

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