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John Coke of Thorne in Ottery St Mary church - in the height of 1632 funerary ware

#Parsifal staging @glyndebourne a huge fail. So sad. Thankfully sat far away thus not too distracted by director's unimaginative, prosaic take. Musically excellent, dominated by huge-voiced #JohnRelyea #Gurnemanz The only innocent fools listed here ...

As a non-German speaking Brit @haendelfest following Keiser's #Octavia was tough but natives little better off. No-one really cared as this totally neglected genre-defying composer is so tuneful, witty & fun! #LauttenCompagney and young singers 100% deserved standing ovation

5* evening @haendelfest #Poro @ohOrkiestra under Pastuszka, Lezhneva #OrnamentationQueen, Cencic, Richardot, Hymas, Edlin, Brés-Feuillet 100% top form, the old Ulrichskirche absolutely rocking for the finale, unbelievable, 🙏🏼 no staging to distract from pure #MusicalTalent

Halle for @haendelfest a superbly sung & played #Agrippina #WalterSutcliffe helps show the comic madness BUT his "anti-capitalist" Las Vegas power&sex&money&drugs concept tires very very rapidly after the interval, he needs to visit @rockimpark_com to see capitalism at its best

Brilliant night @grangeparkopera for #BrynTerfel double bill, Gianni Schicchi was excellent fun but #Rachmaninoff #Aleko was superb: ingeniously apt staging #PunksArePeaceful, gorgeous music, singing @AilishTynanEire @luisgomestenor and playing @BBCCO

@KWhiteTenor missed hearing a voice like yours last night. Have you ever sung the role? Difficult for modern sensitivities. But Das Rheingold has no heroes either and still quite popular.

Lovely to see a Rameau @GarsingtonOpera performed in the UK, a rare occasion #Platée Players of @EnglishConcert on fine period-performance form tho a heavy interpretation (of a cruel story) and lacklustre conducting took shine away. Et incroyable, zero haute-contre!

Already looking forward to 2024 @BeyondShakes Xmas Revels @WhiteBearTheatr if the team can recover from huge and hugely appreciated 2023. Many thanks. (Also excellent food, beer, wine, atmosphere at refurbed @SE11WhiteBear highly recommended

Interesting post-play chat #GeorgePeele's #OldWivesTale with @AnnalieseC & @RobertCrighton @BeyondShakes wasn't it really a (short and very entertaining) satire on #PhilipSidney's (very long but also very entertaining) #Arcadia? much material for podcasts itself

Great urinals #Dec2023 so very Kennington SE11 (so very welcome)

Great week of pre1600 ?drama ?prose ?fragments (whatever) triumphantly ended with "GeorgePeele" #OldWivesTale hilarious genre mash-up vividly brought to life by @BeyondShakes ensemble well-meshed after 4 days of different-play-a-night-rep #SamuelDaniel #Cleopatra my fave, truly!

@shaksper can't believe you weren't down @WhiteBearTheatr with the #WinterRevels rather than glued to your TV!

@ShakespeareRes @henrywriothesl3 @RobertCrighton @BeyondShakes Beware that cat

Nov 10, 1624: Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, dies of fever in the Low Countries while commanding troops against the Spanish. #OTD

Miaow de force from @RobertCrighton brilliantly purring and pawing his way through Beware the Cat by William Baldwin. A sort of X-rated, Tudor revenge, version of Dr Doolittle. Looking forward to #OldWivesTale last night of the #WinterRevels whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/the-be…

#ArdenOfFaversham an average property developer doesn't deserve murder, his Alice who brought it about is mad or bad or ? @BeyondShakes ensemble stepped up to make this committee?-play coherent - nice nod to @ShakeAuthTrust "chasm challenge" by making #BlackWill a Brummie

Remarkably dramatic evening with @BeyondShakes #SamuelDaniel #Cleopatra @WhiteBearTheatr Strange as so little conventional action, just spell-binding storytelling of her last hours, in her voice but much also her voice in the reports of others, all subtly different, and modern

Pity those who missed tonight, #SamuelDaniel shining bright What a neglected treasure, done incredible justice by @BeyondShakes's very fine team in #Cleopatra @WhiteBearTheatr #ArdenOfFaversham for 3 of 5 #WinterRevels tomorrow

@The_Globe To @WhiteBearTheatr for the last of the 3 of the #WinterRevels because @the_globe long ago abandoned it's #EarlyModernDrama mission and lost its audience too ticketsource.co.uk/milkbottleprod…

All I want for Christmas... Is to know what actually happens to the Fool in #KingLear? LIKE WHERE DOES HE GO?!

Always good to see Marlowe in London #DidoQueenOfCarthage @WhiteBearTheatr was a strong semi-staged version kicking off @BeyondShakes #WinterRevels lovely poetry of #SamuelDaniel #Cleopatra up next whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/the-be…

@rich1c @ShakeAuthTrust @stanley_wells @OldFortunatus The "chasm". Love it. So glad it is getting more airtime. It is the challenge to hidebound, conservative, Stratfordian reactionaries.

@ShakeAuthTrust @stanley_wells your scholarship is in tatters if this continues to be promoted. @OldFortunatus “who cares who the author is” Really?

Stratfordians are going to keep struggling with this one for a long long time. "The chasm between Shakespeare’s ‘genius’ plays and his banal life: The Bard led such a boring existence, it has caused many to doubt that he really wrote his works" telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/1…