"Imagination is the source of every human achievement"
(Ken Robinson)
Non-fiction/Seasonal Reading: Ramie Tagoff's Shakespeare's Sisters
Current Bedside Poetry: Ben and David Crystal's Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
Last read: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Most recent re-reading: TH White's The Once and Future King
Looking forward to reading: Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (again) and interspersing with Lee Child
Most recent re-reading: TH White's The Once and Future King
Looking forward to reading: Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (again) and interspersing with Lee Child
Recent memorable reading: Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End, John Boyne’s The Heart's Invisible Furies, Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble, Patrick Gale’s A Place Called Winter, George Gissing's The Odd Women, Maggie O Farrell's Hamnet, Kerry Madden's Werewolf Hamlet, 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
Most recent cinema: Macbeth (from Donmar, streaming), Conclave, Six (theatre show, streaming), The Brontes by Anita Rani: Sisters of Disruption (cinema screening as part of Bradford City of Culture), The Ballad of Wallis Island, Pip and Posy: Sandpit Friends
Top Ten Films (currently): All About My Mother, 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, Singin' in the Rain
Most recent TV: Andor, The Bear, Couples Therapy, Lessons in Chemistry, Mandalorian, Shrinking, Slow Horses, Stranger Things, Succession, Umbrella Academy
Looking forward to watching at theatre: See Page "Looking forward to...."
Some (not so) recent memorable theatre (Will update before too long):
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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