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Accademia Teatrale Campogalliani, Arthur Rackham, fairy tales, Psychoanalysis, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rudyard Kipling, staged readings
So, my own Lunedì is right behind the corner…
The Lunedìs are this series of weekly staged readings centred around a theme – and last year we had Greek Tragedy. And we also had the members of a Psychoanalysis Club following the readings with some sort of analysis and debate. I know it sounds weird – but it worked really well: eager audiences loved the readings and then debated with gusto, and the house was beyond packed for six consecutive Mondays… Continue reading
Were you one of those children always questioning things in fairy tales? You know the kind… Happy ever after? But what happened then? And if she had to be home by midnight, how come she wasn’t crushed inside the pumpkin halfway? And wouldn’t the Evil Queen know a deer’s heart from a human one? They can be a storyteller’s delight or life’s bane – depending on the storyteller’s nerve, I guess… 