"Imagination is the source of every human achievement"
(Ken Robinson)
Non-fiction/Seasonal Reading: Lewis Dartnell's The Knowledge: How to Rebuid Our World After An Apocalypse
Current Bedside Poetry: Jacqueline Saphra's One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets
Last read: Mark Lawrence's Holy Sister
Most recent re-reading: Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son
Looking forward to reading: Jo Baker’s The Picture Book, Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall, Tove Janson’s The Summer Book, Kirsty Logan’s The Gracekeepers,
Authors whose work I love reading (and re-reading): Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Angela Carter, John Christopher, Charles Dickens, Dave Duncan, EM Forster, Alan Garner, William Golding, Sally Green, Thomas Hardy, Alice Hoffmann, Kazuo Ishiguro, DH Lawrence, Kerry Madden, Somerset Maugham, Anne McCaffrey, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, RL Stevenson, Meera Syal, Colm Tóibín, Anne Tyler, Evelyn Waugh, HG Wells, TH White
Some recent cinema I appreciated: Dune, Mothering Sunday, No Time To Die, Spencer
Top Ten Films (currently): The Big Chill, Cabaret, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather I&II, God’s Own Country, Hannah and her Sisters, Promising Young Woman, The Remains of the Day, Roma, Singin' in the Rain
Some recent TV to talk about: Black Sails, Call My Agent, Chernobyl, ER, I May Destroy You, Line of Duty, Little Fires Everywhere, Money Heist, Normal People, Outlander, Queen's Gambit, Schitt's Creek, Stateless, To Walk Invisible, Unbelievable, Unforgotten, What We Do In The Shadows
Looking forward to watching at theatre: @ The RSC: The Magician’s Elephant (now rescheduled for Nov/Dec in 2021), @ The Alhambra, the Panto Sleeping Beauty (rescheduled to Dec 2021)
Most recent re-reading: Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son
Looking forward to reading: Jo Baker’s The Picture Book, Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall, Tove Janson’s The Summer Book, Kirsty Logan’s The Gracekeepers,
Recent memorable reading: Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End, John Boyne’s The Heart's Invisible Furies, Patrick Gale’s A Place Called Winter, George Gissing's The Odd Women, Maggie O Farrell's Hamnet, Mary Lawson's Crow Lake, Elizabeth Strout’s The Burgess Boys, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, Tara Westover's Educated
Authors whose work I love reading (and re-reading): Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Angela Carter, John Christopher, Charles Dickens, Dave Duncan, EM Forster, Alan Garner, William Golding, Sally Green, Thomas Hardy, Alice Hoffmann, Kazuo Ishiguro, DH Lawrence, Kerry Madden, Somerset Maugham, Anne McCaffrey, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, RL Stevenson, Meera Syal, Colm Tóibín, Anne Tyler, Evelyn Waugh, HG Wells, TH White
Some recent cinema I appreciated: Dune, Mothering Sunday, No Time To Die, Spencer
Top Ten Films (currently): The Big Chill, Cabaret, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather I&II, God’s Own Country, Hannah and her Sisters, Promising Young Woman, The Remains of the Day, Roma, Singin' in the Rain
Some recent TV to talk about: Black Sails, Call My Agent, Chernobyl, ER, I May Destroy You, Line of Duty, Little Fires Everywhere, Money Heist, Normal People, Outlander, Queen's Gambit, Schitt's Creek, Stateless, To Walk Invisible, Unbelievable, Unforgotten, What We Do In The Shadows
Looking forward to watching at theatre: @ The RSC: The Magician’s Elephant (now rescheduled for Nov/Dec in 2021), @ The Alhambra, the Panto Sleeping Beauty (rescheduled to Dec 2021)
Some (not so) recent memorable theatre:
Dramatists I am always keen to book theatre tickets for: Caryl Churchill, Helen Edmondson, John Fletcher, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams
Poets I re-read (aloud if in a “safe space”): Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, WH Auden, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, ST Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, TS Eliot, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Ted Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Louis Macneice, John Milton, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, Peter Porter, Isaac Rosenberg, Christina Rossetti, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats
- Ballet Rambert’s Ghost Dances (at Bradford Alhambra)
- Bolton Octagon’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Bradford Alhambra tour of RSC’s Matilda
- Bristol Old Vic/Sally Cookson’s Jane Eyre
- Glenda Jackson in Deborah Warner’s King Lear
- Globe Theatre’s Edward II, Richard II
- Leeds Playhouse’s Piaf
- Manchester Royal Exchange's Gypsy
- Opera North’s Gianni Schicchi, Magic Flute, Rite of Spring (latter with Phoenix Dance Company)
- RSC’s Comedy of Errors (in the outdoor Garden Theatre)
Dramatists I am always keen to book theatre tickets for: Caryl Churchill, Helen Edmondson, John Fletcher, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams
Poets I re-read (aloud if in a “safe space”): Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, WH Auden, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, ST Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, TS Eliot, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Ted Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Louis Macneice, John Milton, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, Peter Porter, Isaac Rosenberg, Christina Rossetti, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats
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