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Bye for now… Just a note to let you know that after a dozen or more years in this format I am closing this site for a while.
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The Bard Off-Planet
I will be guest speaker on Tuesday June 30th 2:30 pm Eastern USA/7:30 pm UK at:
Aquarius Rising: West of Scotland Astrological Association
My topic is:
Shakespeare was an astrologer
(or if he wasn’t he knew people who were)
Here is the blurb:
This talk is an astrological exploration looking at the chart of the Bard and his work. For example, it’s well known that the seven ages…
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#Aquarius Rising West of Scotland Astrological Association#Astrology#Colin McPhillamy#Guest Speaker#June 30th#Shakespeare#Shakespeare and Astrology
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Funny How the Immune System Works
Funny How the Immune System Works
Even the most reclusive of us must be aware that there really is nothing funny about what is going on at large in the world at the moment. However medical authorities from The Mayo Clinic onwards recommend giggling, sniggering and laughing as a great tonic, so whether appropriate or not at this time of trouble, here goes…
Sir Thomas Beecham the conductor, is on record as saying, “If I was…
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#Anthony Lane#Bertie Wooster#Denis Price#George Orwell#Hugh Laurie#Ian Carmichael#Isaac Asimov#Jeeves#Mozart#P G Wodehouse#PLUM#Roy Smiles#Sir Thomas Beecham#Stephen Fry#Tim Pigott-Smith
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Just On The Off-Chance...
Just On The Off-Chance…
It’s May 1st 2020. The first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, and the Celtic festival of Beltane. Sadly there won’t be much dancing around the maypole this year.
Meanwhile what is to be done during this indoor time?
I have turned to the unread books on my shelves, attempting to turn them into books that have actually been read. Stop me if I’ve quoted this before but it is á propos:
“The…
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#Be Here Now#Beltane#Colin McPhillamy#Gurdjieff#Interviews#Kenneth Clarke#Kurt Vonnegut#Ram Dass#The Paris Review#Timothy Leary#Woody Allen
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Actor to Offstage Prompter: "Line...!?!"
Actor to Offstage Prompter: “Line…!?!”
It’s a calendar month since they closed down Broadway, and I have been thinking about Death. If that’s too morbid for your taste, you may want to skip this one.
The great sorrow in the present crisis is that the terminally ill are dying alone without comfort of friends or loved ones. So amidst all this terrible tragedy, appalling inconvenience, and ongoing uncertainty, I have wondered lately,…
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#Anton Checkov#Ben Travers#Colin McPhillamy#Dalai Lama#Death#Doctor Johnson#Dr Peter Fenwick#Elizabeth Kubler-Ross#Eugene O Neill#Groucho Marx#Herik Ibsen#Measure For Measure#Nostradamus#Prompt#Socrates
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Since the World Changed...
Since the World Changed…
They closed the Golden Theatre on West 45th Street on Thursday 12th March, most of Broadway and off-Broadway following within a few hours. On Friday March 20th Hangmen was closed officially.
All that seems like a whole different long-time-ago time now. But then that’s what two weeks (today) of self-isolation can do for you.
Actors are no strangers to being chucked out of work and sometimes…
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#Astrology#Broadway#Charles Dickens#Colin McPhillamy#Hangmen#Moby Dick#Nostradamus#Patricia Conolly#Pete Bradbury#Plague#Resurrection#Shakespeare#To Kill a Mockingbird#Tolstoy#Virus#War and Peace
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In 1593...
In 1593…
In the 1590s they closed the theatres in London because there were outbreaks of plague. The longest period of closure was from February 1593 for about a year when Philip Henslowe (you saw his character in Shakespeare in Love, played by Geoffrey Rush) was made to close the Rose Theatre.
Theatre people are not strangers to sudden changes in the continuity of work, and yesterday as I’m sure everyone…
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#1590s London#Andrew Cuomo#Broadway#Bubonic Plague#Geoffrey Rush#Hangmen#Philip Henslowe#Rose Theatre#Shakespeare in Love
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Learning the Ropes
Broadway in New York City snakes through midtown like an uncoiled length tossed casually across a grid. It creates wedges: one at the Flatiron building on 23rd Street, and another at Times Square at 42nd Street the one-time-and-forever centre of the known entertainment universe.
In these “interesting times” where we live, now and then I get an intuitive confirmation of the impressive prescience…
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#1984#Aldous Huxley#Brave New World#Broadway#George Orwell#Golden Theatre#Hangmen#Mark Addy#Martin McDonnagh
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For me it was quite a lot... about the hair.
For me it was quite a lot… about the hair.
We gave London Assurance at The Irish Rep, NYC the last time Feb 09 2020. A delight to perform in. Thanks to all… Then:
Now:
Happy either way Special thanks to Luis: Master of organic hair coloring
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Stop Press - London Assurance Extension
Stop Press – London Assurance Extension
A short sweet note to say that after the aforementioned ‘money review’ in the Wall Street Journal by Terry Teachout, our initial run of London Assurance has sold out.
We’ve extended for two weeks. Performances from 01/29 thru 02/09. Tickets are going fast…
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#Brian Keane#Caroline Strang#Charlotte Moore#Craig Wesley Divino#Dion Boucicault#Elliot Joseph#Evan Zes#Farce#Ian Holcomb#Irish Rep#London Assurnace#Meg Hennessey#Rachel Pickup#Robert Zuckerman#Terry Teachout#Wall Street Journal
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The Power of the Press
The Power of the Press
I’ve been posting too frequently lately. After this update. I shall resume a sedate once-a-month-if-that routine. It’s the bushfires in Australia that have me so riled. A national emergency and an international crisis – anyway enough of that and plenty of my opinion in previous posts.
Meanwhile…
The astonishing power of a good review in a major newspaper…!
From left to right: Those splendid…
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A Monologue You Will Never Hear
A Monologue You Will Never Hear
Happy New Year!
Among the many monologues you will never hear, we include this from the (Australian/American/British) – fill in the gap – (Prime Minister/President/Almost all senior officials) in public address.
“My fellow (Australians/Americans/Britons ) the time has come to admit that we have completely fucked it up. Our politics are uselessly toxic, and we are destroying the Earth.
Devastating…
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#Australia#Clean Energy#Fires#Floods#Great Britain#Greta Thunberg Helpline#Monologue#Presisdent#Prime Minister#The Environment#USA
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Australia is on Fire
Australia is on Fire
Australia is on fire.
It probably is a good idea to know about it. Why so? Because if nothing is done, the equivalent will happen here, wherever that happens to be…
In the absence of any detailed reporting apart from the usual sound bite/video clip sensational pictures of walls of flame, social media is the best source of information.
#AustraliaFires
This astonishing kid is motivating millions of…
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London Assurance at The Irish Rep
London Assurance at The Irish Rep
From a theatre history point of view London Assurance is unique. Dion Boucicault wrote it in three weeks in 1841. He was twenty. Some sources give his age as eighteen at the time.
That’s me sliding into character in the dressing room
The human Dionysus Boucicault captured some of the Dionysian spirit and poured it in this soufflé of a play. A piece which might also be called a keggeree, or…
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#Brandon Thomas#Charlotte Moore#Colin McPhillamy#Dion Boucicault#Dionysus#Irish Rep#London Assurance#Noel Coward#Oscar Wilde#Rachel Pickup
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Casting Call forGreta
We also have governance by denial.
“Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.” Attributed Native American saying.
What is this frustrated-green-rant doing in a blog about acting? – Scroll down for answer.
Greta Thunberg – the heroine of our times
The solutions are there
The…
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#Australian Fires#Green rant#Greta Thunberg#The Biggest Little Farm#The Man Who Planted Trees#Wilding
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Nicely Busy
That young actress Patricia Conolly is back on Broadway, she gave her first performance as Mrs Debose yesterday in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the new cast at the Shubert Theatre with Ed Harris now playing Atticus Finch. Tickets are available at mind-numbing Broadway rates.
I haven’t seen the show yet, but judging by the audience response as I heard the last few lines of the play from the…
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#Andy Murray#Brian Bedford#Broadway#Colin McPhillamy#Donald Sinden#Ed Harris#London Assurance#Matthew Broderick#Mick Mellamphy#Off-Broadway#Patricia Conolly#Pigeon Theatre Company#Rachel Pickup#The Cure#The Irish Rep#The Seafarer#Tim Ruddy#To Kill a Mockingbird
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Even Actors go on Holiday
Even Actors go on Holiday
Before we left we noticed that everyone we told we were going to Barcelona had something to say along the lines of: “Oh, it’s great, you’ll love it.” And now we can say that too.
There’s the oddly named Hotel REC, which I wholeheartedly recommend, is situated close by the Arc de Triomf. The entire staff is extra friendly and helpful, and the cool design of the building on an oddly shaped…
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