Archive for: August, 2012

Uncategorized August 31, 2012

IN THE WORKS

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. KING LEAR,  I.i.36 My two-man King Lear project with Paul Hunter starts rehearsing only in December but now has the advantage of a director in Kathryn Hunter, who has played both Lear and the Fool (she was, in fact, the first British actress to play Lear on the …

Uncategorized August 19, 2012

SUMMER’S LATE LEASE

Because the sun is much too sultryand one must avoid its ultry-violet ray. Noël Coward,  ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’  Just recently, whilst working in my loft, I rediscovered two still-life drawings I did from summers past. Late in the season, summer has blazed forth again. I spent a still and sultry Saturday afternoon in my …