Export / Import; Pixels / Schmixals.
Well, I uploaded this - no problem.
And this of my grand daughter, Maia.
Sorry, wrong piccie.
THIS is Maia - in a wig!
May 14, 2013
May 9, 2013
One more try
A readjustment....
HALLELUJAH!!!!!
June 21, 2009
Here we go again.
Tomorrow I go back to the Arcola. I'm rehearsing Ibsen's GHOSTS, for the Actors Touring Company, directed by Bijam Sheibani - a nice bloke with a good way of working.
I'm playing ENGSTRAND, a carpenter. In case you don't know, GHOSTS is about this carpenter who has a stepdaughter who works for a woman whose deceased husband is the real father. There's money, sex and an STD involved. Doubtless, other members of the cast will have a different perspective. I think there's a couple of laughs as well - well, if I've got anything to do with it there will be. I'll let you know.
I'm looking forward to the Lachmajun from Mangal, over the road. £1 for lunch - NOT BAD, EH?
May 22, 2009
There's more.
The daughter's gig was great. Her stuff is edgy and difficult to play; it needs experienced musicians (and a bit of editing, it has to be said). She heard today that she got a 1st for her 'David Bowie' project, for which she was partnered by Liam, an excellent guitar musician from the antipodes.
May 15, 2009
Two years, already?
Almost two years to the day since we last spoke????
Well, my dog died last year. Then my agent retired two years ago and I haven't stopped working since. What's all that about? I've got a new agent now - Robert Kelly @ Kelly Management. We're getting on great, so far. I've just had a casting for a new Roland Joffe film about Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei. I'll keep you posted, if you're interested.
March 19, 2007
THE TEMPEST
Look, this is my opinion - right?
Bill Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST is like the Windows Millenium computer operating system. Y'know - "We've spent all this money developing the next generation of our OS we had better publish it. I know it's not brilliant but we've got to recoup".
I think THE TEMPEST is 'work-in-progress'. Shakespeare observed what was going on in society at large, devised a poetic setting in which to 'paint the picture' and discovered that there was no plot to speak of - simply a set of elements which were either in flux, or were constants.
NOTHING HAPPENS!!! There is no action - no physical state-of-things that is attacked, defended or changed. There is no struggle through which the 'combatants' learn something about themselves and each other.
To my mind it's a description of the way God, (whoever she is) was working in the time between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Like Prospero, she was changing her attitude (or mind) from 'An eye for an eye' to 'Peace and Reconcilliation'. THE TEMPEST is set in Prospero's cell on an island; it could be set in Nelson Mandella's cell on Robin Island.
Maybe Shakespeare's intention was to develop a trilogy - the first part, "Prospero's Fall", set in Milan. The second part, "Prospero's Return", set on his island. The third part, "Prospero's Second Fall"back in Milan. It would be like a collection of "ROCKY" movies in which Prospero is the winner every time but against terrible odds. I wonder if Stallone would be interested? This idea's copyrighted, by the way. How do you spell that - copywrighted?
