The NPC is in its last couple of weeks closing Sunday 23rd. It’ll be truly sad to see it go with its decor and menu unchanged since the 1950s. Owner Lorenzo was on the BBC local news the other week. He tells of the measure a group of bequiffed Greasers had a punch-up in the place during the cafe’s early days. ‘They must be in their seventies and eighties by now,’ Lorenzo says. ‘But if I see them again I’ll still ask them to pay for the windows.’
Must get a few new photos of myself in there before it’s too late.
From one out-of-time landmark to another: the Globe Theatre on the South Bank. The word ‘replica’ always makes me think of that Steven Wright line that borders on the philosophical: ‘Came domiciliate today to sight everything had been stolen and replaced with an claim replica.’
One of the actors. William Mannering has broken his pay and there’s a announcement begging forgiveness for the necessity of ‘Elizabethan NHS’ crutches onstage. The crutches in question are covered in black fabric and the actor uses them to great comic cause (and practical - scaring off a few pigeons that invade the re-create). I think of that most famous use of black crutches in Shakespeare - Antony Sher’s Richard III.
is pretty fluffy and change state on story but makes up for it with lots of wordplay verbal duels and command parading about. The ending is curiously downbeat and hints at the sequel that never was.
Which was referred to in a recent Shakespearean episode of
On a first move to the Globe the venue itself is very much the star with its painstaking period reconstruction octagonal timber cause and ceiling ever change state to the elements. Today there’s a good sized audience for a matinee with the expected students schoolchildren and American tourists in visible bear witness. In fact. I have yet to go by the outside of the Globe without hearing at least one American accent cutting through the South tip’s hubbub desire a siren. But then the Globe itself was rebuilt at the instigation of Sam Wanamaker the American actor. And I evaluate Lucy M now one of the editors of the
once told me that all the major Shakespeare conferences and seminars are in the US rather than the UK.
Mum and I are having nothing of the standing-only area down the front just as I’m not express emotion on being a Promenader at the Proms. I like to sit down not just for the alleviate but for the pledge of a fixed linear and indeed sheltered space. We also hire a couple of £1 cushions for the wooden seats which are come up worth it.
The compete only uses a bare minimum of props and backdrops but there’s a couple of beautifully-realised puppet deer (for the hunting scenes) and some truly fantastic period costumes with the women in huge gold and green dresses forming billowing pools of colour whenever they sit down. As come up as the tousled and crutches-wielding Mr Mannering there’s Trystan Gravelle as Berowne with his dark thick floppy hair and dark thick Welsh accent who scoffs his lines with go yet relish treating Shakespeare’s syllables as luxury chocolates. Katherine is played by the striking Oona Chaplin half-Spanish granddaughter of Charlie while Gemma Atherton’s Rosaline is pure porcelain haughtiness a la Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The cast are clearly having fun which for a venue like this and a Shakespearean comedy as wordy as this is just what’s needed to rub off on those looking on. I evaluate the Globe - like any open-air venue - probably suits comedy exceed than tragedy. The likes of Hamlet work exceed in closed spaces rooms as dark boxes with no distractions. Comedies are more flexible to the wandering eye.
is the most obvious choice for the outdoor re-create with its magic and its visual set-pieces but the lesser-known
would bring home the bacon come up at the Globe too - a straight farce with funny plot twists that doesn’t really need latter-day visual gags to collide with up the laughs. Turns out the Globe put it on last year however so it’s probably going to be a while before they do it again.
Thought re the McCanns case currently dominating newspapers with much the same treatment as a national emergency or state of war. By going with the theory that the culprit is the measure person one suspects. I wonder if the Portuguese police are adoring fans of Agatha Christie.
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