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.
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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 …
Uncategorized August 30, 2020
BRACKETS
A sonnet I’ve rediscovered these – a pair of brackets Brass, lying loose in our utility room In this house, they’re something we don’t lack, it’s Two boys clamber, but their doom’s To do it in the dark and dust; they climb At ever easeful play, perhaps adventure Fixed in brass, their heedless golden time Is …
Uncategorized August 3, 2020
PETH’S STAGING POST IS BACK
On this, Edward’s 84th birthday, we’re delighted to announce that Peth’s Staging Post is again functioning properly. We hope you’ve all been keeping safe and well at this extraordinary time. Edward has been keeping busy with his art during the months of lockdown. Below are three examples of his recent work in pastel.
Uncategorized December 24, 2019
CHRISTMAS EVE
Both these pictures were done this summer. The winter scene, oil on canvas, is based on a photo I took in January, and the summer scene, from a different perspective, is based on plein-air viewing. I have used the snow scene for our Christmas card. The Art Nouveau watering can is a drawing I did …
Uncategorized April 26, 2019
CHINA DIARY
This is a reprise of an earlier blog, with new additions, partly (and slightly belatedly) to celebrate the Bard’s birthday. Hoping you all had a lovely Easter weekend.