Uncategorized July 18, 2011
SEEKING A NEWER WORLD
My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tennyson, Ulysses I can’t decide whether the Brushes app is a red herring …
My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tennyson, Ulysses I can’t decide whether the Brushes app is a red herring …
This is not the foreshadowed new film, but a pithy sequel to my first good-humoured urban lament, which seemed to strike a chord. Once again filmed covertly on location.
Thank you for your warm appreciation of last week’s excerpt from my National Theatre Platform in March. Here is another, from the final few minutes: ‘Comedy’, after I had just applied the final brushstrokes. Kathleen and I have a new film ‘in the works’, which we hope to share with you soon.
The National Theatre Archive has made available to me a recording of my Platform in March to launch Slim Chances. Two cameras were lurking in the upper reaches of the Cottesloe as I performed ‘in the round’ to a full house. Was it in the attic that I bumped the back of my head? The …
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald Tiresias, reputed to have been 300 years old, is the latest, and I hope the most advanced, in my studies of old age. The …
Coco and Antigone have ended, the heady cocktail of 60s Broadway musical and ancient Greek tragedy, but Life and Art continue, and, having last week graduated from the iPhone to the iPad’s slightly larger virtual canvas, I present here my very first iPad painting – in the making as it were.
Sunday night again and no chance of a blog worthy of the name, though, walking up to Pret a Manger at The Angel this morning in light drizzle from the Coco warm-up at Sadler’s Wells, I had all manner of ideas in my head. It is such a novelty to feel positive and content …
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O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet …
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson A retrospective compilation of my production of Knots for the Actors’ Company in 1973, featuring some rare documentary and rehearsal footage and part of the original score: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone premiered last …
I recommend the following films from this extensive list: