On Friday 20 October 2017, I saw Chris Thorpe’s Victory Condition at the Royal Court. This is a double hander with Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O’Neill. it is only 55 minutes long, and a play that required the audience to listen to catch every word to make the words matter. It was an experience…
On Monday 17th October, I looked up into the sky and saw the sepia sky. it was a sky of a strangeness in colour that heralded the ‘green girl’, Ophelia. On her way was the girl who ‘mermaid-like’ was pulled to her ‘muddy death’. A storm in the court of Elsinore. A storm in the cold…
I love my job, but there are times when I really love my job. There are times when i can tell students such exciting news that I am nearly jumping up and down in the classroom. This year, I was able to tell the students in my Shakespeare module the very exciting news that Pippa…
Read more Pippa Nixon and Alex Waldmann are coming to Visit again
I stupidly decided to go into York city centre on a Saturday afternoon. That was probably not my best idea because it was packed. It seems that there is this new thing (or is it an old thing) of hen and stag parties that last all day, and groups of revellers tend to block footpaths.…
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The landscape is now being touched by ochres and oranges, with dabs of red. It’s the time of year when the sun still shines and it can be still warm. I really love this time of year, but there is also a feeling of foreboding as one wind and the trees will become bare, all…
I enjoy finding places near where I live, and that I didn’t know about. It’s that thing where there are places on your own doorstep that you don’t visit, but instead, travel miles to find similar places. So only five minutes from our house we find ourselves in the middle of the countryside. Around us,…
The campus quest photos can be found at: https://julieraby.smugmug.com/ The York St John University Campus map can be found at: https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/about/campus–facilities/campus-map/ The quest: In your new study groups arrange a time to meet and try and find as many of the places that have been captured in the photographs. Please mark on a copy of…
Back at work last week after a short holiday, and some time writing. There’s a chill in the air as Summer disappears and the back end of the year starts to encroach on the green landscapes. The campus is very busy. The students have returned, and our new students have arrived. This is one of…
I have moved my blog over to betweentheactsblog.com
I haven’t written on my blog for some time because I am completing my PhD. I find that it is very easy to get distracted and write short blog posts than work on larger pieces, so I have taken a holiday from blogging. Once I have submitted my PhD then I hope to get back…
Julie Raby 