Nice deconstruction, thanks. I think your joke (and the rude one I posted yesterday) both work well because despite their brevity, they're more multi-faceted than you might initially think. Are you going to write a post on the Riyadh Comedy Festival?! Stewart Lee summed it up quite well, but interested in your take on the Omid Djajili Guardian defence..?!
Off topic, but it’s very important I tell you: it’s about Shakespeare 😂 (Autistic - who me? 😂). I’ve just discovered that the David Tennant/Cush Jumbo Macbeth is available to stream now, on Marquee Tv (£9 a month; if I’d known it was going to be available so soon after cinema release I wouldn’t have spent £15 a head taking my boys to see it, after my first viewing, but nevermind …). Go and watch it, right now. Or, okay, after you’ve finished that Solero … Setting aside the fact that Tennant is obviously brilliant, and Jumbo nails it: the staging manages to pull off an incredibly dynamic battle with long swords on a tiny stage; the screaming of Lady MacDuff is more chilling than any anything I’ve heard anywhere before, anywhere, ever; the soldier’s uniforms are individualised unity and the casting captures the essence of their characters, so you can actually tell them apart (so many Macbeths fall down because 90% of the cast are indistinguishable); it’s palpably Scottish: I never noticed before the absurdity that productions of what is subtitled ‘The Scottish Play’ never feel remotely rooted there. I could go on. Everything about the production is deft, visually and emotionally arresting. Anyone reading this, even if you think you don’t like Shakespeare, watch it too: it is theatrical perfection. Watch it and tell me otherwise.
Nice deconstruction, thanks. I think your joke (and the rude one I posted yesterday) both work well because despite their brevity, they're more multi-faceted than you might initially think. Are you going to write a post on the Riyadh Comedy Festival?! Stewart Lee summed it up quite well, but interested in your take on the Omid Djajili Guardian defence..?!
Trump still tried to claim it.
Off topic, but it’s very important I tell you: it’s about Shakespeare 😂 (Autistic - who me? 😂). I’ve just discovered that the David Tennant/Cush Jumbo Macbeth is available to stream now, on Marquee Tv (£9 a month; if I’d known it was going to be available so soon after cinema release I wouldn’t have spent £15 a head taking my boys to see it, after my first viewing, but nevermind …). Go and watch it, right now. Or, okay, after you’ve finished that Solero … Setting aside the fact that Tennant is obviously brilliant, and Jumbo nails it: the staging manages to pull off an incredibly dynamic battle with long swords on a tiny stage; the screaming of Lady MacDuff is more chilling than any anything I’ve heard anywhere before, anywhere, ever; the soldier’s uniforms are individualised unity and the casting captures the essence of their characters, so you can actually tell them apart (so many Macbeths fall down because 90% of the cast are indistinguishable); it’s palpably Scottish: I never noticed before the absurdity that productions of what is subtitled ‘The Scottish Play’ never feel remotely rooted there. I could go on. Everything about the production is deft, visually and emotionally arresting. Anyone reading this, even if you think you don’t like Shakespeare, watch it too: it is theatrical perfection. Watch it and tell me otherwise.