DRAGON IN THE POST TRIUMPHS – WE DID IT! 100% FUNDED
HUZZAH! THE DRAGON IS 100% CROWD FUNDED BUT CAN WE KEEP GOING, WITH 18 HOURS LEFT, CREATE A MODEL FOR FUTURE BOOKS IN THE POST AND ALSO HELP THE RNIB, AFTER MY 100 MILE WALK DOWN THAT GLORIOUS SOUTH...
View ArticleSCOTLAND, INDEPENDENCE, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF NO
On the eve of this crucial vote what questions are we asking about Scotland, if those in Northern Ireland, England and Wales have a right to ask too? Perhaps a bit of history, and from Edmund...
View ArticleWRESTLING DRAGONS ON CORFU AND QUESTIONING THE FISH!
Hello, I haven’t run away with the cash, nor spent it celebrating the new United harmony of the British peoples, convinced the Welsh and the real Celts were always the warmest and the best, but flown...
View ArticleCYPRESSES, CORFEATS, NAUSICAA AND A HOUSE ON PARADISE ISLAND
“The island, she won’t let you go,” whispered the hazel-eyed local on Corfu’s Agios Gordios beach, on the West Coast of my magic isle. She told me about her struggle and satisfaction in becoming a...
View ArticleAlbania – With a clear blue eye on the wounded ox, in the city of Nymphs…
“What Country, friend, is this?” “This is Illyria, Lady.” “And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown’d: what think you, sailors?” Twelfth Night – William...
View ArticleTHE SHAKESPEARE BLOG – SOUTHWARK, SHOES, SCANDALS AND SADDLERS
One of the most famous of all Shakespeare’s soliloquies must be Henry V’s immortal “St Cripsin’s Day” speech, but few know its special significance to a Southwark audience, in particular at the Globe....
View ArticleTHE SHAKESPEARE BLOG – THE STRANGE CASE OF EDMUND SHAKESPEARE AND MR JONSON!
One of the less succesful moments in the search through St Saviour’s records for Edmund Shakespeare, his immortal brother William and Southwark in general was when I stumbled on a payment in the...
View ArticleTHE SHAKESPEARE BLOG – THE MYSTERY AND MAGIC OF RESEARCH
An American friend has just asked, in this very free form Shakespeare and London blog, what it is like doing the research itself, in the backrooms and the stacks of great libraries? A worthy...
View ArticleTHE RASCAL’S RETURN
RASCAL IN GREECE AND AFTER ARRIVING IN ENGLAND Just a quick post on one of the lovlier elements of trying to live between Corfu and Hampshire and that was befriending Rascal the super dog on the...
View ArticleTHE SHAKESPEARE BLOG – SOUTHWARK, CURE’S COLLEGE AND THE ORDER OF NOBLE POVERTY
I blogged last week on the founding in 1588 of the little Alms House run by Saviour’s Church, Cure’s College, on Maid Lane in Southwark, where the Rose, Globe and finally Hope theatres stood, by the...
View ArticleFINDING NEW GEMS IN THE STRATFORD-SHAKESPEARE CROWN
It was the woman at the New Place ticket office grudgingly lending me a cheap biro, then sourly commenting that not even the Birthplace Trust staff get discounts from the RSC, that had me wondering...
View ArticleSNAKES IN PARADISE’S GARDEN
“A snake came to my water trough…” DH Lawrence A morning stroll over gentle Elsie’s Peak for magnificent views of the curling Atlantic surf, down to Cape Point, proved I hope the most auspicious...
View ArticleThe Artists of Kalk Bay
“Ya, artists of all kinds flock here” says Arabella Caccia, as we look down on the skillful little milk swirl paintings of some very convincing birds floating in the top of our cappuccino in Ohana...
View ArticleMEETING IVANA TRUMP
I met Ivana Trump once, it was in a little London art gallery, I think Cork Street, and remember well wondering about this botoxed, attractive, semi glamorous Eastern European woman and how celebrity,...
View ArticleWALKING WITH THE BUSHMAN!
A SHORT WALK IN THE KALAHARI His name is Cobra, and he has been working with the excellent, high end travel outfit in the Kalahari, Uncharted Africa, for years. I think he started as a boy with the...
View ArticleSUPPORTING THE KALK BAY ARTISTS!
Phoenix Ark are very proud to be supporting and promoting a group of four great artists in South Africa, who have founded a little Collective in Cape Town’s beautiful Kalk Bay, at The Kalk Bay Artists...
View ArticleA FAIL OF TWO CITIES – REVIEW
It’s heart may be in the best of places, but it’s only that magical Open Air setting that just about saves Matthew Dunster’s adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities from being the worst of times. Three...
View ArticleMICHELLE TERRY COMES TO THE GLOBE, AMID THE SILENT TEMPEST!
Well, when Press people suddenly disappear, and there has been long standing controversy about the resignation of the Globe’s Artistic Director Emma Rice too, who goes to The Old Vic, even coming fresh...
View ArticleKING LEAR – REVIEW
Nancy Meckler’s quirky production of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy at The Globe somehow fails to reach the heights of Kevin Mcnally’s deeply moving and highly original portrayal of King Lear. In a...
View ArticleREVIEWING THE REVIEWS!! THE STATE
Well, perhaps it should be a new trend in journalism, ‘reviewing the reviews’, but Christopher Stevens’ outrageous, scandalous and completely cynical review of Peter Kosminsky’s brilliant drama The...
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