tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post114338731021033862..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: Train whistle, pigeon v squirrel, cold streetcarAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-1143557461117371452006-03-28T15:51:00.000+01:002006-03-28T15:51:00.000+01:00There's an account somewhere of a production of Ki...There's an account somewhere of a production of King Lear at the Old Vic during an air raid in World War 2. John Guilgood, as Lear, got a special round of applause when, in the storm scene, he came to the words:<BR/><BR/>And thou, all-shaking thunder,<BR/>Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world,<BR/>Crack nature's moulds, all germens<BR/>spill at once,<BR/>That make ingrateful man.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-1143550529666122822006-03-28T13:55:00.000+01:002006-03-28T13:55:00.000+01:00I rememebr going to a production of The Wild Duck ...I rememebr going to a production of The Wild Duck during the Miners' Stike in the seventies. During a power cut the play continued by candlelight. The Line "Ah beautiful dawn - see how bright - it lifts my spirits," fell rather flat.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.com