Hello everyone… as promised here is a reading from “Drinking with Dead Women Writers” by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner, two writers from Boise Idaho. It is an amusing original book ….the unknown person (me in this case) meets up with various famous dead women writers for a drink and discussion of their lives…
After dire warnings by Facebook, that I haven’t posted in ages…not quite true…I thought I had better jump to attention and write something. It seems to be that we are regressing into a highly adolescent state about sex…the importance of it, the excitement of it, the stress of it and I find this rather strange.…
Like many people, I am concerned by the current events and the way our leadership, in many parts of the World, is going at the moment. I dont “do” politics really, never have…I dont feel educated, nor qualified enough to speak my thoughts, but the way things are going on now, we seem to be…
Hope Written by: Paul Callus When dark clouds converge As cold winter plots To dampen the soul In the face of fear And adversity… When crisis looms And dejection Flirts with despair Not all is lost… A swallow Comes along Heralding The joys Of spring Hope! We seem to be living in difficult and conflicted…
“May you live in interesting times”…says a supposed Chinese curse, although apparently no such thing exists. However we do live in interesting, not to say disturbing times, which as a friend remarked the other day are beginning to feel increasingly apocalyptic. I have to agree, but being (a) an optimist and (b)strictly apolitical, I am…
“Why love if losing hurts so much….the pain now is part of the happiness then”. A truncated quote from Anthony Hopkins….rings true in my ears. Love is on my mind on this last day of 2016…the romantic, the familial, friendship….all love. Its the one emotion that gives our lives vitality, meaning, however painful it can…
Been relaxing a bit after Macbeth, missing doing it and still find myself saying lines every now again. It always takes time to come down from working up to a performance like that, slow the adrenalin and deal with the reality of “life after”! However I am lucky with great friends and this last week…
This has been an extraordinary week, post Macbeth. First order of the day, rest and recover, it was a challenging month, demanding a lot of energy, fortunately I am blessed with decent health (genes), so have staying power, but now its time to pace and prioritize events. The week was the sublime to the…
Macbeth is over now and I loved every moment of doing it. What a great part and I am happy that I was not only able to learn the lines, but was able to retain them at my time of life. Shakespeare is such an extraordinary writer, once you get the words into your head…
Second week of Macbeth in Portsmouth and I am just beginning to relax and enjoy doing playing this wicked woman who destroys herself with her own wickedness. Between trying to avoid being knocked out by the three huge revolving mirrors that take up the lions share of the stage, struggling with the worst cough and…
