Mirrors, water, tapestries reflect the dreams and reveries of doomed women who are often wearily suffering from loss or are washed out with the pain of unrequited love. Some have suffered death and others are just about to. In contrast, the temptress uses the ice cool water to tease and lure men to sexual deviation…
Read more One & Other, 12 noon man. (Trafalgar Square, 11th July 2009)
I have managed to watch all the Torchwood episodes this week thanks to the magic of Sky +. I must admit I was gripped and had to catch up because of watching open air Shakespeare for a couple of evenings (see other blog entries). It was enormously difficult to avoid spoilers (especially now I twitter,…
Read more Torchwood and Coronation Street (w/c 6th July 2009)
Once upon a time……. in a castle on the mountain where the ravens croaked, the young girl mourned the death of her physician father brought up by the Countess Rossillion. Rossillion was a dark place. Then Helena fell in love with the Countess’ son, Bertram, and it should have ended happily ever after. For her…
Read more All's Well That Ends Well (National Theatre, 11th July 2009)
Open air Shakespeare is about having an entertaining afternoon/evening out, as much as it is about searching out that brilliant performance of Shakespearean production. Of course when going to any theatre, there is a hope it will be entertaining, but open air Shakespeare brings with it all the ritual of what you do before and…
Read more The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest (Ripley Castle, Library Gardens York)
Julie Raby 