Yesterday I went over to Mary Tavy to watch a Shakespeare in the Garden production. ( Read more... )

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Buckland Abbey is Sir Frances Drake's old pad.  Well, it was a Cistercian monastery first, then it belonged to the Grenvilles, then they sold it to Drake. Eventually it ended up with the National Trust, who decided this weekend, they would have a Shakespeare festival and do Elizabethan Things.  It was terrifyingly hot today (32 degrees!)  but there ( Read more... )

Apparently The Hobbit stage play is visiting Plymouth in Feb and I have been given some theatre tokens...

Anyone know if it's any good?  I dunno where else this production has been.

Certainly can't complain at Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, but not entirely convinced by David Tennant's Hamlet, particularly during the scenes with Ophelia. Ophelia was good though ( Read more... )

I just cleared out a pile of books read.  In theory I am moving them to the library.  Only I got them this far and decided to blog about them...

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