Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Thursday, 20 April 2017

Play on Words

My visit to the ARC in Stockton was rewarded with an excellent performance of “Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead” streamed live from the Old Vic (where it was premiered fifty years ago) with Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire in the eponymous roles, and they made a very good partnership batting (literally at one point) lines to and fro as they, exasperated and puzzled, tried to make sense of their bit parts in Hamlet, delivering Tom Stoppard’s verbal acrobatics with consummate skill – but they were at least matched by David Haig as The Player whose appearances on stage brought light, colour and some killer lines.

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