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Septimus, What Is Carnal Embrace?

Monday, May 31, 2010

THAT is one of the great first lines. I can’t get away from Stoppard it seems: we celebrated Mum’s birthday by going to see Arcadia. (I should also have remembered that the version of The Cherry Orchard which Dad and I saw at the Old Vic last summer was actually by Stoppard too). Et in [...]

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Save the Gerund and Screw the Whale

Friday, May 21, 2010

To the Old Vic with MZFC. I was here last summer with Dad, our last theatre outing together. The last of too many to count. It was The Cherry Orchard.  (Mme. Ranevskaya: How old you’ve grown, Fiers! Fiers: I’ve been alive a long time). Tonight it was The Real Thing. I knew it was a [...]

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