I’ve been thespianised. July 29th, 2006 And it wasn’t painful! My mum took me and nan to her Utopia, Stratford-Upon-Avon, for a break and to see Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek for the uninitiated) as Prospero in Shakespear’s The Tempest. She knows I have always hated Shakespear and thought it overrated and that I find most plays hard to follow and at times, boring. So we all knew I was there for Patrick Stewart, plain and simple. The surprise? I understood every word. I understood the entire plot and got all the jokes (the comic timing of the actors was superb). I was totally absorbed and engrossed and didn’t want it to end. I now want to go and see King Lear (with another hero, Sir Ian McKellen in it – saw him in Dance of Death a few years ago, brilliant) which is on next year, and Antony and Cleopatra which has Patrick Stewart as Antony, which is on now – hopefully we’ll still get seats (am going with AnM).
It also (and probably more of a draw – sorry Patrick) has another actor in common with the Tempest. Julian Bleach played the spirit Ariel amazingly in The Tempest – utterly captivating. I found myself watching him instead of PS, who was who I was supposed to be watching (having never seen PS in real life before). Anyway, he plays the clown in A&C 😉 *drools quietly* ahem, great acting yes. I feel I am doing him a diservice – although very nice to look at I do appriciate the acting too! I’m not totally shallow. Anyway. Tomorrow I move home to my flat that is hopefully nice and clean. On Monday I start my new job. I am totally terrified, and also will be sans internet until I get it installed (a priority). I’m debating whether to bother with a landline (don’t need one for Telewest broadbean I believe) or whether to operate off Skype and my mobile… given my high computer usage, Skype isn’t an unreasonable option, and my mobile is always on after all. Decisions, decisions.
