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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

19th July - West Cliff GreenThe heat has continued all night and the morning has brought the same, dead blue sky and intense sun. There is enough breeze on the clifftop to make the temperature just about bearable. The birds are strangely quiet apart from the gulls which squabble over last night's take-away boxes. Every patch of shade is taken up by the coffee drinkers and early picnic lunchers. But during the afternoon a grey film of cloud slides across the sky, temperatures drop and the little breeze fills chilly. The cloud thickens and takes on that yellow colour that presages a storm. But it does not manifest apart from a few distant rumbles of thunder and ten minutes of large thundery drops of rain. People on the beach are undeterred and by late afternoon the cloud is thinning, the sun reappears and heat is building again. #bournemouth #westcliffgreen #July #summer

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Saturday, September 09, 2017

La Boheme at the Royal Opera House, London

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One of the perks of knowing the right people is getting to see things that we couldn’t otherwise afford.   Yesterday we were privileged t...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Blood and Bones. Play writng in the 21st Century.

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Blood and Bones Theatre Theatre is the oldest expression of some of the deepest human instincts.   The playwright’s job is to establ...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Blood and Bones Theatre. Fairy Tales

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Please let me know if you own this Let’s talk about fairy stories.   Let me think about some of the narratives that others have ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Chapter 2a) Belief, Bias and Common Humanity.  A meditation on playwriting in the Age of Untruth.  Apollo and Dionysius.

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The authentic narrative is a sensory explosion occurring within an intellectual context.   We know it when we feel it as acutely ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Chapter 12 - Belief, Bias and Common Humanity

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Filling the Empty Space Skidmore and I were having a drink in a bar one evening after attending a performance of some dire piece of ...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Chapter 11 - Belief, Bias and Common Humanity

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Secrets and Lies – Inner dialogue Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.    - Austin O’Malley People tell lies.   That...
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