Theatre life, with its quarrels and muddles and vanities, is a form of lunacy: but the moonbeams of that lunacy can be of a radiance that does indeed reward. The occasional miracle of the theatre its inhabitants know: indeed, by it they live. Ivor Brown, Shakespeare Sunset, Drake’s Wharf, Royal William Yard.Photo by EP Sunday …
Photo by Manuel Harlan Hear a wonderful interview Edward did live on BBC Radio Devon this morning. He talks to Judi Spiers about My Perfect Mind in which he is currently appearing at Plymouth’s Drum Theatre. Click to play interview. The interview begins at 2:05:37 and ends at 2:29:36. There are six days left to listen. KR
Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter in My Perfect Mind.Photo by Manuel Harlan The first reviews for My Perfect Mind, which opened in Plymouth last Thursday, have been posted on Edward’s News blog. More reviews and photos will appear there in due course. After Plymouth, the show moves to Liverpool, Salisbury and the Young Vic. For details of …
Photo by EP Monday We’re speeding South West on the train to Plymouth and I see from our rehearsal schedule that tomorrow morning we begin at 10am and finish at 10pm. Kathleen Riley and I are squashed into standard class, which Kathleen tells me is rather more generous than economy class on the twenty-four-hour flight …
HMV, which I still prefer to remember as His Master’s Voice, is in administration and so to mark the event we have remade our little feature of April 2010 celebrating the label and the artist who made it famous, Francis James Barraud – not forgetting his dog ‘Nipper’.
NOW, now the mirth comes With the cake full of plums, Where bean’s the king of the sport here; Beside we must know, The pea also Must revel, as queen, in the court here. Begin then to choose, This night …
The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in …
The special-edition 4-CD boxed set of Slim Chances with Additions and Afterthoughts is now available to pre-order on Peth’s Staging Post. Visit the Merchandise page and pre-order a copy at the click of a button with PayPal. The boxed set will be shipped to you immediately on its release (we hope in time for Christmas!). The …
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. Somerset Maugham I am preparing for the second week of rehearsals for My Perfect Mind, reminding you that the title is derived from King Lear and the king’s line in the waking scene of Act IV, sc.vii: And, to deal …
Proud music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains! Personified dim shapes! you hidden orchestras! You serenades of phantoms, with instruments alert, Blending, with Nature’s rhythmus, all the tongues of nations. Walt Whitman It is now less than a week till …
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