I saw Ralph Fiennes in Trevor Nunn’s production of Shakespeare’s Tempest at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London last night. The whole cast was fantastic, and even the comic turns made me laugh, which is rare for Shakespeare. The reviews were generally unenthusiastic, but it was my first ‘Tempest’, and I thought the production was great…
Olivia Mitchell starts an interesting discussion on whether to begin your presentation with the conclusion right up front. It’s always a choice with risks attached. Do you give the game away and risk people jumping to conclusions before they understand the ‘how and the why’? Or do you risk annoying the crowd by keeping them…
You might not know that in the original script for the first “Rocky” movie written by Sylvester Stallone, in 1976, Rocky dies after the fight that ends the film? It might have saved us from the dreadful Rocky’s II through VI but I bet that “Rocky” (Which was a truly original piece of writing in the fat,…
I read an article a few years ago about travelling preachers in 19th Century America. There were hundreds of the faithful fellows, literally wandering from town to town, all through the thousands of empty miles of the mid-west. They made their living, or their dinner, by being good, because they knew that if they weren’t…