Uncategorized November 28, 2022
Tutankhamun
To get the ball rolling again at random, we talk about Tutankhamun glimpsed through the window of Doris Lessing’s son who lived next door but one to her in West Hampstead.
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Uncategorized August 23, 2022
Tempestuous come-back
– ARTWAVE SEPTEMBER – Perhaps it is touch and go for me this year but the still life I drew in pastel this week reassure me to open my Blog with something from my own reasonable steady hand. Sadly my dear friend Kathleen is unable to continue her invaluable collaboration because of family commitments. Technical know …
Uncategorized May 14, 2021
ART WAVE
This September the annual Art Festival in Lewes, Art Wave, usually extending into artists homes, is confined to their gardens or separate studios. Malcom, who recorded Hamlet, and I want to combine my visual art with the audio in my garden come September not by inflicting the three hours forty minutes of our audio version on our visitors, but a pithy, …
Uncategorized March 11, 2021
ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE
LOVE & TIME TIME & PLACE As a Spring event, having missed Valentine’s Day, Emily and I offer a compilation of poetry, prose and drama; three minutes short of an hour in the company of some great writers. It can now be found in the “Shop”. For technical reasons, it has to be in three …
Uncategorized January 1, 2021
A NEW YEAR
So, Time’s faithful charioteer Grants us another new year We continue Life’s Dance With another new chance To sustain our unique Biosphere. Wishing you all a safe and happy New Year.
Uncategorized December 23, 2020
MY FIRST PANTOMIME: A CHRISTMAS POEM
As promised, a new short film for the festive season. Thank you to everyone who has already visited the website’s new audio streaming service and for your appreciative comments on the Fireside Half-Hour and Dickensian Christmas Bundle. One more package will very shortly be arriving in the Shop. Strictly for theatre buffs, it comprises fast-paced musings …
Uncategorized December 13, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW STREAMING SERVICE
I am very pleased to announce that the first item of a new departure is about to appear; nothing revolutionary, in fact Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is almost synonymous with the coming season, although I have only got to know intimately of its virtues since studying it for this audiobook project in the form in which Dickens performed it …
Uncategorized October 1, 2020
TOLD BY AN IDIOT PODCAST: REGRETS, I’VE HAD A FEW
Told by an Idiot’s inaugural podcast is now available to stream or download. Regrets, I’ve Had a Few, hosted by Artistic Director Paul Hunter, takes the form of free-flowing conversations with friends and colleagues in the theatre industry, delving into what made them the people they are today. Paul’s first guest is none other than …
Uncategorized September 29, 2020
PIERROT, PUNT AND PREVIEW
These pictures – one a still from Knots, the other my most recent study in pastel – and this partial verse are by way of a ‘trailer’ for a forthcoming short film. A punt was all part of the myth And the miming had moment and pith And a flow to beguile Artifice Style After …
Uncategorized September 7, 2020
IN PRAISE OF THE WORTHY SCAFFOLD
It is hard to believe that over seven years have passed since Paul Hunter and I mounted this worthy scaffold (designed by Michael Vale) for the world premiere of My Perfect Mind. Just the other day I was contacted by Told by An Idiot to say that a festival in China had asked permission to …