St Patricks Day will be here before you know it and I am going to get a jump on it and write a little about Ireland, my history with it and two actors, I worked with, my favourites: O'Toole and McGoohan...both Irish of course..
When I was a child of about 8 0r 9, my aunt and uncle moved to Dun Laoghaire
Dun Laoghaire is a suburb of Dublin and they moved into a ...
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Quote from Macbeth, which pretty well sums up our modern way of life at the moment.
The media, social media and live ...
Posted on February 4, 2019 and filed under JM Video Shorts, Just Talking!, My News & My Kind of People, New Chilling Tales, New Chilling Tales- the Anthology
Today it's the turn of Charlotte Gilman Perkins and her story The Yellow Wallpaper, which you can watch at newchillingtales.com on this site!
https://youtu.be/QdnedIGD5LI
Here's a little bit more about Charlotte Gilman Perkins and the Women's Suffrage movement in the US. These were brave women flying in the facial of a social order which had lasted for hundreds of years. Historically women had been traded in
marriage for property and money. The woman would then have the ...
Posted on January 18, 2019 and filed under Just Talking!, My News & My Kind of People, New Chilling Tales, New Chilling Tales- the Anthology, Podcasts
Ok - Friends, instead of writing a blog this time...thought it might be fun to create a vlog...fun for both of us, we hope, but it could may be fun for neither. However in the spirit of Good Will and Cheer for the Season, I am giving it a go!
Don't forget! New Chilling Tales on the site!!
Happy New Year!
AMBROSE BIERCE
Ambrose ...
Posted on December 28, 2018 and filed under Just Talking!, My News & My Kind of People, New Chilling Tales, Podcasts, Recent Projects
The title to this blog relates to Michael Croft friend, founder of the National Youth Theatre and Shakespeare expert above all. So twisting the Macbeth quote to fit my name when whenever we met was a little ongoing joke between us. I don't think I have ever met anyone who understood Shakespeare and directed his plays as brilliantly as Michael. My two weeks rehearsing Julius Caesar, playing Portia, taught me more ...