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Uncategorized May 15, 2011

DANCE WE MUST

            The plot can be hot, simply teeming with sex             A gay divorcee who is after her ex             It could be Oedipus Rex             Where a chap kills his father              And causes …

Uncategorized May 2, 2011

LIVING AND REHEARSING IN THE MOMENT

Bean has snuggled on the sofa beside me and is happy to let me stroke her head, from her nose, between her eyes, up over her head and down the back of her neck. She has no idea that she has featured in a number of my weekly postings, is a key figure in one …

Uncategorized April 27, 2011

ARTHUR PRINCE REVISITED

Almost exactly one year on from the original version, I re-filmed my first Graveyard Ditty (and indeed my first short film) on location in Hampstead Cemetery. The new footage was captured in one long take just a few weeks ago on a glorious spring afternoon – not by webcam this time but by video camera …

Uncategorized April 23, 2011

THE IMMORTAL MEMORY

On this, the Bard’s birthday, I append an excerpt from the Shakespeare chapter of my book, Slim Chances: We can’t revisit Whitehall to sit with King James at The Tempest, nor, despite Sam Wanamaker’s crusade, revisit the Globe. However, at one rainy matinée of Henry V in 1997, from high in Wanamaker’s reproduction of Shakespeare’s …

Uncategorized April 20, 2011

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST

I awoke to the weather forecast, 25 degrees Celsius was being promised for central London, that’s 77 degrees Fahrenheit! Did a bit of study on my part in Coco (one of this season’s Lost Musicals at Sadler’s Wells) under a sunshade in the garden, then, after a light lunch, carrying six signed copies of my book, each …

Uncategorized March 27, 2011

STOPGAP

Now it’s a race against time to complete an additional painting or two, and shoot some video footage, for my Burgh House exhibition, which opens this Wednesday. I enjoyed the National Theatre Platform last Wednesday. The challenge of presenting myself to the audience on four sides was stimulating and fun, though the bookshop running out of …