I can't quite figure out how I feel about this review of Branagh's production of The Winter's Tale (and Harlequinade):

http://variety.com/2015/legit/reviews/winters-tale-review-kenneth-branagh-1201635920/

For example:

This time, ( Read more... )

So Branagh is doing Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale at the Garrick Theatre in London, alongside Terrence Rattigan's Harlequinade, which is apparently a play about a company that tries to put on Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale. I like the idea of this grouping, and a lot of the casting sounds really amazing (Dame Judi Dench as Paulina ( Read more... )

Apparently, due to the process of association, I can't cook rice without saying the following things out loud at some point ( Read more... )