8.30am on a drizzly Monday morning in downtown Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for the breakfast launch of Auckland Theatre Company’s 2026 season might sound like quite a big ask but ‘something’ told me there was ‘something’ pretty good in the offing so, armed with our new pink umbrella and more than a tad (good 1970’s theatre […]
Month: October 2025
The Gower Statue, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare, Ronald Gower, and frozen me in a short-sleeved blouse having just come from the sweltering antipodes!
The Shakespeare Memorial by Lord Ronald Gower. Bronze and stone, with a pedestal designed by Parisian architects, Peigniet and Marnez. 1888. Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon. At each corner of the Memorial, the sculptor has placed a representative Shakespearean character: “Hamlet, Prince Hal, Lady Macbeth and Falstaff. These characters were intended to be emblematic of Shakespeare’s creative versatility: […]
‘Rosemary, that’s For Remembrance’ ~ a reflection on Shakespeare’s old hometown
The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first day of my stay I visited the church […]
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