Spare ticket for The Game. Also cricket, Roger Livesey, the Queen and My Beautiful Laundrette
I appear to have a spare ticket for The Game, Harold Brighouse's play about football as a family business, at the Garrick Theatre in Stockport at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday night. Only £9 to a good owner...
PS Have been intrigued to learn that Roger Livesey's Desert Island Discs included "Egbert Moore: MCC v West Indies Calypso. Artist: Gerald Clark and Serenaders". (Egbert Moore is Lord Beginner.) This doesn't appear to be the usual Ramadhin and Valentine calypso from 1950, even though Livesey appeared on the show in 1952, but this one recalling in commendably statistical detail the first half of MCC tour of the West Indies in 1934-35.
PPS But if you want intriguing that segues into weird, watch this clip of Roger Livesey playing indoor cricket in front of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at the National Playing Fields Ball in 1951. Which reminded me of this report from Peter Bradshaw on the Queen attending the BFI National Film Theatre's 60th birthday do yesterday, which featured a 1953 3D film called Royal Review made at the time of the Coronation, followed by "a showreel display of the BFI's work on film history and archive restoration". I just hope the Queen isn't a slash fan, because if I'd been watching when the compilation cut away just before Daniel Day-Lewis's big kiss with Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette I would have screamed and, even though Bradshaw's point is that HM could play poker with Buster Keaton, I don't like to think of her being forced to contain such violent emotion.
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PS Have been intrigued to learn that Roger Livesey's Desert Island Discs included "Egbert Moore: MCC v West Indies Calypso. Artist: Gerald Clark and Serenaders". (Egbert Moore is Lord Beginner.) This doesn't appear to be the usual Ramadhin and Valentine calypso from 1950, even though Livesey appeared on the show in 1952, but this one recalling in commendably statistical detail the first half of MCC tour of the West Indies in 1934-35.
PPS But if you want intriguing that segues into weird, watch this clip of Roger Livesey playing indoor cricket in front of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at the National Playing Fields Ball in 1951. Which reminded me of this report from Peter Bradshaw on the Queen attending the BFI National Film Theatre's 60th birthday do yesterday, which featured a 1953 3D film called Royal Review made at the time of the Coronation, followed by "a showreel display of the BFI's work on film history and archive restoration". I just hope the Queen isn't a slash fan, because if I'd been watching when the compilation cut away just before Daniel Day-Lewis's big kiss with Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette I would have screamed and, even though Bradshaw's point is that HM could play poker with Buster Keaton, I don't like to think of her being forced to contain such violent emotion.
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