Thought for the day

Was Shakespeare actually a woman?

"I and my bosom must debate awhile,
And then I would no other company"
--Henry V, 4.1.31-32

(Thanks to Dee Dee for the question)

My bird, on theatregoers

"Why do people go to the theatre? Is it so they can eat dinner at 5:30?"

Play/write

"I’m very good at accepting my flaws. It’s one of the few things I’m good at."

- Patrick Marber

Launch of The Essentials

in which the Amnesiacs did not double-team actress Charity Wakefield.

Amnesiac Recommends

Wherein it is hoped that Tim FitzHigham, FRGS, Bt. will be giving the Amnesiacs a massive plug.

(Click image to book - and say 'Bath' to get a £2 discount per ticket.)

The 15(b) golden rules of theatre etiquette

... according to Benedict Nightingale and me:

15b (and corringendum)
Do NOT, under any circumstances, sniff. If you're ill, stay at home; if you're just ill-bred, stay out of the theatre.

Top of her class-consciousness

“I didn’t realise before That Face that writing about the middle classes so scathingly was quite a rare thing. But there’s no mystery as to why I write from that perspective. I’m middle-class.”

- under-age playwright, Polly Stenham

Orwellian-ism

Orwell and me, at the Trafalgar Studios.

Constant Re-Frayn

My positively final appearance - in a championship bout - against Michael Frayn.

Alles in ordnung (isch)

Michael Frayn's Alphabetical Order, reviewed at Hampstead Theatre.

After Dido, le deluge

in which the author is forced to admit it is possible to be unnecessarily clever.

Call me Jimmy

Interview with Osmond minimus.

White-face

Death and The King's Horseman, at the National.

Where There's A Will

... there's a wag.

Tony Gardner, starring in Feydeau's farce.

A message for my fellow amnesiac

Am recovering on a Sunday night by gawping goggle-eyed at Lewis on ITV with the fam. Can't help enjoying the fact that an ambitious "freelance" (plagiarist) theatre critic for a leading Oxford newspaper has just been brutally murdered.

Great publicity, I reckon. Should you require my strangulation services, I'm free on Tuesday night. Get in touch.

p.s. Bring your own string.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

'Facebook' piss-take of Hamlet.

[Thanks to GRM]

Lughnassy

Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, Old Vic.

Burnt by the Sun

Reviewed, at the National.

Wery funny, yes indeed.

Review of England People Very Nice, at the National

'Batter my conscience.'

Review of Doctor Atomic, at the Coliseum.