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Macbeth.
I think I memorised "Thanatopsis" and part of "The Gettysburg Address", in school. We never did any acting, I was so shy and withdrawn that I shudder to think about how it would have gone.
Very nice eppi.
Khadijah
old Macdonald
Could be worse, could be the Wiggles. I wonder at times how some Mums and the odd Dad keep sorta sane with them and High Five and Bob the whatsis. almost makes me glad I never had kids. Dinner sounds nice.
Keep scribblin Ang.
Kris
I have enjoyed McBeth, at
I have enjoyed McBeth, at least reading it, and the one play I saw. But then I like a lot of Shakespeare. I always wondered about the origin of that name, and then was told that the extra's, the ones without speaking parts, that stand around muttering nothings and "Shakeing their Spears" might have been the origin of the name?
CaroL
CaroL
At least
Sister M. didn't let slip that Cathy had played Lady Mac at a boys' school!
S.
Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1290
I do believe that Cathy had fun,
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
We all know that Cathy is naturally
a great mother. Sounds like she's just as great as a teacher (at least occasionally). Still, I'd like to see her get back to research.
Brilliant Teaching
“Well, ladies, I don’t know about you but I think that was a brilliant afternoon with a wonderful teacher.â€
Sister Maria summed it up for me.
Thanks A+B+I (braised steak with mushrooms, a savoury rice and garden peas): Good to see Cathy doing so well with her teaching.
Planned Success
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
Super stuff, as always.
And really excellently told - I could see the picture so well in my mind's eye.
Way back, I think in the early 80's, Trevor Nunn directed a TV version of the Scottish Play with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench starring, amongst others. Judi D (now, of course, Dame Judi Dench) played Lady M.
At first I was sceptical because the play started and there were no elaborate costumes, just plain sets and modern clothes (sorta) but the sheer vitality of the performances gripped me. Judi D's sleepwalking scene is now firmly stuck in my head as THE definitive version. For those of you with just under 7 minutes to spare, you may like to see ....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkyZWQ2bmQ
Dear Goddesses in their sweet heaven!
Thank you Julia for this heads-up! This is delightfully creepy and That Scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will last in my mind forever. I knew that JD was good - but that was on another plane entirely! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Diana.
A wonderful word picture
So clearly written, I can almost smell the mixture of scents from the audience. Brilliant job!
Yeah
Shakespeare is pretty good - whether he could post every night...?
Angharad ;)
Angharad
would have been nice to have had
a teacher like Cathy.... Might have helped me understand Shakespeare!
Kirri
Verse
I have a very difficult time memorizing verse or reciting them. It is very easy for me to form a picture in my head of the actions taking place while reading though. As an example, while attending the Drill Sargent Academy the instructors expected us to memorize the Drill Sargent Creed. Often while waiting in line to enter the Messhall to eat they would be going up and down the line and asking us questions (which we were required to answer.) If you gave the incorrect answer you had to step out of line and drop for 20 push-ups. One of the questions they would ask was to recite the Drill Sgt Creed. Any time I got that question I just stepped out of line and dropped. To this day I still don't have it memorized even though I do have it someplace on my desk.
However, if you were to ask me to disassemble and reassemble an AN/USQ-70 Position and Azimuth Determining System without the manual I could do it with my eyes closed(slight exageration here.) And I have not handled this equipment in over 20 years.
Teaching is a vocation,
and Cathy has it, though she doesn't notice. Any job that is fun is a keeper.
Old men are full of blood.
I was visualizing the naked sleepwalking scene, with a variety of Lady M's .
Then the thoughts became all helter-skelter. Out Damn Spot !, used to say that every morning to my dog.
Cefin
Kabuki MacBeth ...
I took my Dad to a local production of Kabuki MacBeth (but not this one: ...http://theactingcompany.org/plays/2019-20-season/kabuki-macb...).
The entire play was done in Japanese theater style with such things as people dressed completely in black holding a cut-out Moon on a pole. We were not supposed to 'see' the prop people in black.
As far as I could tell, all the words were Shakespeare's ('King' or 'Prince', not 'Shogun'. They didn't try anything with accents (certainly not Japanese, not Scottish, nor Ye Olde English).
We (audience) were so transported into feudal Japan, that when someone in the play was declared "the finest prince in all Christendom...", the word "Christian" jarred by being anachronistic by a half-millennium!
... and I'm so much enjoying Cathy & Company's ...
... "never-ending" catastrophes. Only about 2,000 more chapters before I catch up :)