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Uncategorized November 10, 2012

MODERN MYTH AND MEMORY

Beautiful as the horses of HippolytusCarven on some antique frieze. Frederic Manning, ‘Transport’, 1917 My Blog this weekend is a film by Kathleen with her accompanying introduction, appropriate to Remembrance Sunday. EP A Trojan four-horse chariot, eastern frieze, Siphnian Treasury, Delphi In January this year I gave a talk at the Sydney Latin Summer School …

Uncategorized October 31, 2012

OCTOBER’S END

The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, sc.i An occasional sonnet: On this All Hallow’s Eve, I leave you with a work in progress, a painting I have lately revisited: West Hampstead Nocturne.Acrylic on …

Uncategorized October 27, 2012

IN MEMORIAM: MARIE LLOYD

When every theatre has been replaced by 100 cinemas, When every musical instrument has been replaced by 100 gramaphones, when every horse has been replaced by 100 cheap motor cars, when electrical ingenuity has made it possible for every child to hear its bed-time stories through a wireless receiver attached to both ears, when applied …

Uncategorized October 21, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENTS

As you may have noticed, Edward’s blog has been rechristened, at least for the time being, Petherbridge’s Fortnightly Post. As preparations for My Perfect Mind intensify, it has become difficult to maintain a weekly posting, but stay tuned for a veritable feast of words, images and film in the weeks and months ahead. Many of …

Uncategorized October 10, 2012

LOST AND FOUND ON BANKSIDE, PART II

Sic transit gloria mundi, How doth the busy bee, Dum vivimus vivamus – I stay mine enemy! Emily Dickinson, 1852  City of London School at Blackfriars, photographed from the Millennium Bridge. Herbert Asquith, whose uncle lived at West Hampstead and had charge of his education, attended the school as a day-scholar from 1864.Photo by EP

Uncategorized October 9, 2012

LOST AND FOUND ON BANKSIDE, PART I

Then there went such a great concourse of people by water, that the small number of watermen remaining at home [the majority being employed in the Spanish war] were not able to carry them, by reason of the court, the tearms, the players, and other employments. So that we were inforccd and encouraged, hoping that …

Uncategorized September 24, 2012

TRACES OF KING LEAR

Who is it that can tell me who I am? King Lear, I.iv.230 Portrait of Lear and the Fool. Charcoal on paper.September 2012

Uncategorized September 4, 2012

THE TRUTH WITHIN

Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force – they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. … They can perform a miracle. … art transfers the whole weight of an …

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 …