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RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia's the best play in English since Beckett. Two intertwined will-they-won't-they-did-they? plots, to make space for five characters as smart and witty as TS to do their thing. Wilde-tier stuff, but with heart.
Can't show that with a quote, so here's a bit that's just funny.
Can't show that with a quote, so here's a bit that's just funny.
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia's the best play in English since Beckett. Two intertwined will-they-won't-they-did-they? plots, to make space for five characters as smart and witty as TS to do their thing. Wilde-tier stuff, but with heart.
Can't show that with a quote, so here's a bit that's just funny.
Can't show that with a quote, so here's a bit that's just funny.
Strong @schoolofnight.bsky.social vibe here in this LRB article on medieval poetic manuscripts. Coincidence?
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Strong @schoolofnight.bsky.social vibe here in this LRB article on medieval poetic manuscripts. Coincidence?
Who knows what the Liverpool muses will bring me to improvise with this Saturday? Should I expect something tragical-comical-iambical-romantical? To be honest, probably just ridicucal-iambic. That's the muses for you at that time of night ...
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Who knows what the Liverpool muses will bring me to improvise with this Saturday? Should I expect something tragical-comical-iambical-romantical? To be honest, probably just ridicucal-iambic. That's the muses for you at that time of night ...
A clip from the last of my work in progress gigs for Shakespeare On The Spot, at the British Shakespeare Association meeting in June. This ambush game gets audience suggestions for a thing. Later in the show it appears in a simile/metaphor used by Lear's daughters to praise him.
August 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A clip from the last of my work in progress gigs for Shakespeare On The Spot, at the British Shakespeare Association meeting in June. This ambush game gets audience suggestions for a thing. Later in the show it appears in a simile/metaphor used by Lear's daughters to praise him.
REED has some fools c. 1600 if memory serves, and I know of a couple later than 1616 - though I don't remember the word 'jester'. This is painted c. 1650s.
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
REED has some fools c. 1600 if memory serves, and I know of a couple later than 1616 - though I don't remember the word 'jester'. This is painted c. 1650s.
A great audience for Shakespeare on the Spot last Saturday at the King's Arms, Salford. Pic on right is the 'Is this an [object from the audience] I see before me' game.
Next stop, a return to my old trade at the end of the month - performing at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference in York.
Next stop, a return to my old trade at the end of the month - performing at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference in York.
June 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A great audience for Shakespeare on the Spot last Saturday at the King's Arms, Salford. Pic on right is the 'Is this an [object from the audience] I see before me' game.
Next stop, a return to my old trade at the end of the month - performing at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference in York.
Next stop, a return to my old trade at the end of the month - performing at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference in York.