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Yesterday I went over to Mary Tavy to watch a Shakespeare in the Garden production. Read more... )

Oldie foster stole some bubblewrap this morning,Read more... )
I've downloaded a copy of Synfig, an animation program, to play with. Because apparently I don't already have enough art supplies. I am hoping that it may be possible to use Synfig to produce animations created from pastel drawings, in some way. What could possibly go wrong?

Speaking of which, I am mildly annoyed Read more... )

On the other hand, the blackberries are ripening. This morning (on my long non-foster dog walk) I picked blackberries and ate the good ones, and kept the rest to chuck to the three pigs. I feel pigs probably don't mind their blackberries slightly squashed or maggoty.

A camera-related triumph! Read more... )

This evening we were just setting off to walk the dogs when we saw a pair of biplanes overhead! I didn't think you still got biplanes.
bunn: (dog knotwork)
http://blueremembered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/sword-at-sunset-play-writer-james.html?spref=tw

Apparently so.  I imagine that such a fat (and on places, let's face it, slow) book must have needed a fair bit of pruning, but I wish I was close enough/could spare the time to go and see what they made of it! 
bunn: (Kettlehat)
Buckland Abbey is Sir Frances Drake's old pad.  Well, it was a Cistercian monastery first, then it belonged to the Grenvilles, then they sold it to Drake. Eventually it ended up with the National Trust, who decided this weekend, they would have a Shakespeare festival and do Elizabethan Things.  It was terrifyingly hot today (32 degrees!)  but there were trees and things to hide under. And it was all free!  Well, free if you are a National Trust member anyway.
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bunn: (Cats and Hounds)
Apparently The Hobbit stage play is visiting Plymouth in Feb and I have been given some theatre tokens... 

Anyone know if it's any good?  I dunno where else this production has been.

Hamlet Hum

Dec. 28th, 2009 11:06 pm
bunn: (Bungles)
Certainly can't complain at Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, but not entirely convinced by David Tennant's Hamlet, particularly during the scenes with Ophelia. Ophelia was good though.

Laertes was a tit, but then I guess Laertes is a bit of a tit so maybe that was just well acted...  But I think I prefer him more angry and less... prattish. 

On the whole, thinking that Hamlet probably works better on the stage than as a film, though the references to CCTV were quite clever and would have been a bit more difficult to do on stage probably. 

Books read

Mar. 18th, 2009 08:43 pm
bunn: (Cats and Hounds)
I just cleared out a pile of books read.  In theory I am moving them to the library.  Only I got them this far and decided to blog about them...

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In non-book news,  I went to see Measure For Measure today, in the Theatre Royal in Plymouth with (rather unexpectedly) Alastair McGowan playing the Duke. I'd not seen or read the play before, but now I can see why it is not one of the more popular ones, what with the complexity of the plot and the rather mixed-feeling ending.  Still, it was definitely worth watching. I liked the way the lighting made the best of the (fairly simple) set. 

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