July 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cork, Events, Ireland, London, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Readings, Sacramento, Saturdays, Shakespeare, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Washington DC, Wordpress
- Share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction. It can be monumental, minor, or something in between.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
For this post, self decided to kill two birds with one stone. She’ll look back at her fondest memories of 2017 (thus far) — the moments that gave her the most satisfaction.
From Shakespeare’s Globe, her last night in London, June 2017
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017
Bus Stop (near the Cathedral of Notre Dame)
Waiting for the beginning of Kenneth Macmillan’s beautiful, stunning ballet, “Mayerling”: Saturday, May 13
The Main House, Under a Crescent Moon
The Forest Seen From the Lake: Early March
Going to the Globe and seeing Tristan and Yseult; sorting through old photographs of Dearest Mum; seeing the Eiffel Tower up close; reading her story First Causes at Sixth Engine in Washington, DC; watching Mayerling at the Royal Albert Hall; visiting Cork; Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 21, 2017 at 2:40 pm (Artists and Writers, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, exhibits, Fridays, London, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, Shakespeare, Wordpress
Jessica Dunne exhibit at B. Sakata Garo Gallery, 20th Street, downtown Sacramento
Self loves bright colors!
A T-shirt from the gift shop at Shakespeare’s Globe: A Quote from Romeo and Juliet
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July 12, 2017 at 3:28 pm (Links, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, London, museum, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, San Francisco, Wordpress
“. . . capture any type or style of bridge where you are . . . ”
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
Bridge Over the Sacramento River (Self loves the vibrant yellow):
Sacramento, July 2017
Another type of bridge: the stairs spanning the lobby of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art:
Stairs to Upper Level, SFMOMA, June 2017
Finally, Waterloo Bridge in London. The bridge is special to self because it’s the one she has to cross every time she watches a play at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Waterloo Bridge, London, June 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 2, 2017 at 3:34 am (Books, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Plays, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: indulgences, memoir, reading lists, Saturday, Shakespeare, summer
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June 19, 2017 at 9:20 pm (Artists and Writers, Plays, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Emma Rice, England, inspiration, London, Mondays, Shakespeare, summer
This year, self was fortunate enough to catch two plays at Shakespeare’s Globe: Twelfth Night and Tristan and Yseult.
Both plays were terrific. But only one was truly unforgettable, because self watched it her last night in London, that fabulous city.
Here’s an excerpt from the Tristan and Yseult programme, written by Director Emma Rice:
Love, I celebrate it, practise it, mourn it, and fight for it.
But my appreciation and experience of this most seductive of topics is dwarfed by Shakespeare’s understanding of love. My mind spins when I imagine how his life must have been: how hard he worked, how far he travelled, how dark and scary the landscape he lived in was. If I close my eyes and propel my imagination back in time, I hear the tectonic plates of the planet creak, I see the ground opening up and Shakespeare clambering out of a deep crack in the earth’s surface, dusty, desperate and gasping for air . . . then, with the clarity of clear water, he sings from the earth he was born. Shakespeare gave voice to desire and to grief, to parenthood and to marriage. He charted the waters of courtship and the loneliness of a failing marriage. He mourned for us, married for us and betrayed for us. He gazed fearlessly into the human existence like no other, before or since.
Shakespeare’s Globe, Just Before the Start of “Tristan and Yseult,” June 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 14, 2017 at 5:27 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Emma Rice, England, London, memories, photography, postaday, postaweek, praise, Shakespeare, summer, Wikipedia, Wordpress
The bokeh that resulted give the lights of the city a magical quality and creates a unique look for a heavily photographed location.
— David W., The Daily Post
Self had to look up the definition of “bokeh”, here.
Last night, self saw “Tristan and Yseult” at Shakespeare’s Globe. Such a beautiful, high-energy production, Emma Rice’s last as Director at the Globe.
Audience Leaving the Globe After “Tristan and Yseult”: Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Leaving Shakespeare’s Globe after a performance of “Tristan and Yseult,” Tuesday 13 June 2017
Going home, over London Bridge, she snapped this shot of Big Ben:
London Bridge Last Night, Around 10 p.m.
And this one of the London Eye:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 10, 2017 at 7:22 am (Artists and Writers, Plays, Recommended, Sayings, Traveling)
Tags: England, Saturday, Shakespeare, wisdom
O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
— Isabella, Act II, scene ii, Measure for Measure
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May 20, 2017 at 1:43 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, destinations, Places, Plays, postaday, The Guardian, Traveling)
Tags: discoveries, Emma Rice, England, London, memories, postaday, postaweek, praise, Saturday, Shakespeare, Wordpress
- This week, share a photo that channels a living tradition, whether it’s your own or someone else’s.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
This is her second post on HERITAGE. She deleted the first one, pictures of the Imperial War Museum. For the first time in forever, that post got 0 likes, go figure.
Self watched (last night) a kickass production of Twelfth Night, directed by Emma Rice, who’s departing the Globe after just two years at the helm. As a tribute to Ms. Rice (who famously told the Guardian two years ago: “Being childlike is underrated. It takes commitment.”) Self thinks this would be an appropriate time to share why she loves the experience of watching a play at the Globe, so much:
It’s so London. And London is a city absolutely buzzing with energy. Especially at night. Every year since her first Globe play (2014’s bloody Titus Andronicus), she watches at least one play at the Globe.
Last Night: Heading home in a cab after watching “Twelfth Night”
At intermission, she heads straight for the wharf. This is the view:
The Thames, Seen From Behind the Globe
It is an essential part of her Globe theatre-going experience.
Self still remembers her first sight (up close) of the Millenium Bridge. Her jaw dropped. She had no idea — no idea — that London had become this cool place. That was the moment when self fell in love, really fell in love with the city:
The Millenium Bridge connects the South Bank to Saint Paul’s.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 26, 2017 at 9:13 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Links, Plays, Sundays, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: art, discoveries, fantasy, flash fiction, humor, inspiration, Ireland, Literary Magazines, rejections, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, West Cork, writing process
We’re going under.
When?
Today.
Just like that.
Yes.
Well, I need more time to select.
Select?
Yeah. What do you think?
Everything you need is down there.
The two men arguing are about to descend to the ocean floor in a bathosphere called Pinkie Pi. They are under the impression that’s where everyone else on the surface has gone.
Stay tuned.
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March 10, 2017 at 10:38 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Plays, Recommended)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, discoveries, Fridays, music, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Libretto for Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten:
O when you pray you shut your eyes
And then can’t tell the truth from lies.
Yesterday (9 March 2017), Unit # 1
Loud man. I never did have time
For the kind of creature who spits in his
wine.
A joke’s a joke and fun is fun.
But say your grace and be polite for all that
we have done.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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