A grab-bag of my interests: contemporary theatre, creativity, plus life and learning online
An image a day and a tweet or quote a day to sum up the passage of the next 10 weeks as I rehearse and perform in La Boite Theatre Company’s production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare. I get to play Duke Senior, father to Rosalind. This should be fun and a [...]
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Hello! Perhaps you’ve been redirected here from the former Expressive Plus site? If so, this is just a wee note to let you know that the proprietors have retired the site … for the time being. As it happened, both of us were too busy to maintain the site in the way we wanted to, [...]
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11/22/63 by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars A great read and enormously satisfying. As a time-travel devotee I enjoyed King’s intelligent handling of a complex conceit, one usually riven by plot improbabilities. Characterisation and narrative in 11.22.63 are top-drawer, and the recreation of period makes for a fascinating read. And, speaking of [...]
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Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars A wonderfully, fast-paced horror read. Joe Hill’s literary voice has echoes of his father’s – Stephen King – especially in the creation of singular characters and a seemingly ordinary world threaded through, or is that ‘invaded by’ the unthinkable and horribly persistent ‘other’ world [...]
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Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fascinating introduction to the remote and, from what the writer indicates, beautiful and eerie Shetland Isles waaay up there north of Scotland. I’ve almost added them to the travel to-do list. The novel is a thriller that blends modern science with ancient folklore, power [...]
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Steve Jobs died this morning aged 56. I learned about it via Twitter on my iMac. We knew it was coming probably sooner rather than later. He had been sick for years and, at each public appearance, was looking more and more gaunt. Still, when the news broke, it did come with a jolt. Within [...]
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