Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. Rembrandt Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. Rembrandt is truly called a magician … that’s not an easy calling. Van Gogh ‘Fortnightly Post’ has been something of …
She looked at the canvas; it was blurred with a sudden intensity, as if she saw it clear for a second, she drew a line there, in the centre. It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse …
The email account connected to Edward’s website was hacked early this morning, so apologies to anyone who received spam from it. You may be sure we are aware of the problem, which has now been rectified. K.R.
A slow singer, but loading each phraseWith history’s overtones, love, joyAnd grief learned by his dark tribeIn other orchards and passed onInstinctively as they are now,But fresh always with new tears. R. S. THOMAS A new Spring look for the blog and a new film to celebrate Spring’s infinite mystery and magnificence.
My tears are like the quiet driftOf petals from some magic rose;And all my grief flows from the riftOf unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth,It would crumble;It is so sad and beautiful,So tremulously like a dream. ‘Clown in the Moon’ by Dylan Thomas (age 14) A film to mark …
Owing to fantastic reviews in the national media, and by popular demand, My Perfect Mind has been extended another week at the Young Vic. It now closes on Saturday, 4 May. Book tickets here. To read the reviews following last week’s tremendous London press night, visit the News blog. Photo by Manuel Harlan KR
Friday was the London Press Night for My Perfect Mind. Reviews will appear on the News blog very soon. The show is getting a terrific amount of coverage in the national media, including most recently a feature on BBC 2’s Newsnight (available only to UK viewers), an interview with Edward on Radio 3’s Night Waves, and a critique on Radio …
Those of you in the UK, or who subscribe to The Sunday Times online, can read Bryan Appleyard’s interview with Edward in Culture this Easter Sunday – ‘Lear and yet so far’. There is also an appreciation of My Perfect Mind by Kathleen Riley at Vulpes Libris.
We had now arrived in the heart of the big city, and as usual it was almost a heart of darkness. But it looked like a big city, there was no denying that. Here, emphatically, was the English seaport second only to London. The very weight of stone emphasised that fact. And even if the …
A new film blog is imminent and will feature images captured by Edward on tour in Liverpool. Stay tuned! Liverpool Docks. Photo by EP This week My Perfect Mind travels to Salisbury. KR
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