Good night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

HAMLET (2009) dir. Gregory Doran

hamlet and horatio being in love for six minutes straight

thinking about andré tchaikowsky, my sweet little shakespeare-obsessed gay, who just wanted be a part the shakespearean tradition even from beyond the grave, who donated his own skull in to theatre to cement his connection to art, his death only marking his transition from artist to art

and thinking about his skull being finally used after over two decades in THAT 2008 rsc production of hamlet

and thinking about THAT MOMENT from the film version in which hamlet says the line here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft and horatio, like the sweet little gay that he is, looks at hamlet the very moment he utters the word kiss'd

andré, this is all you ever wanted and MORE

Sophie Okonedo in Troilus and Cressida (1999)

"Get out of my head!"

Warrior Nun (Psalms 116:15)

Behind the scenes photos from Midsomer Murders - The Stitcher Society.

(Photos from Harriet Thorpe’s Instagram.)

"If the OCS is real, it would be a secret kept for centuries, even from those on the inside."

I’ve watched “Hamlet” 2009. Because David Tennant is in it, not because I’m such a Shakespeare fan. Do you know who else is in it? Patrick Steward. “Hi, Captain”, - I said in a very bad sort of British accent. Tennant plays Hamlet and Steward plays both King Claudius and King Hamlet (well, the ghost). All the other actors… Well, I have absolutely no idea who the hell are all those people I’ve never seen any of them. I pretty much enjoyed this film – the acting is good (obviously), the props and scenery are interesting – they are modern, so we got to see David Tennant in jeans and stretched T-Shirt, barefoot, in a palace, the cinematography was a little unsettling – a lot of times actors looks straight in the camera as if talking directly to the audience, a lot of close-ups too. I’m not going to retell the plot of “Hamlet”. I just won’t. While watching it I had tenth-grade flashbacks, because we learned Hamlet’s monologue (the famous one “To be or not to be”) by heart and unexpectedly I still remember some bits. Also, I’ve never thought that “Hamlet” may be funny, but here it is – David Tennant lying upside down in an armchair making fun Polonius or making a courtier take on and off his hat several times. This movie also reminded me of another one, as I’m thinking now inspired by this, - “Boris Godunov” 2011. A classical historical play, the text is uncut and not edited – as close to the original as it can be, but everything is in modern times and feels a little like art-house. The original play of that movie (“Boris Godunov” by A.S. Pushkin), by the way, is partly inspired by Shakespeare’s “Richard III”. So, if you’re not allergic to modern Russian cinema, I recommend watching it – as for me, it’s pretty good too.

Storm in a Recycled Cup

THE TEMPEST Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Monday 6thFebruary 2023 There is a welcome drive in contemporary theatre for sustainability and being green.  The RSC is at the forefront: they’ve been recycling the same 37 plays for decades!  Seriously, anything that reduces or offsets an organisation’s carbon footprint can only be for the good, can’t it?  Can this example of…

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Watching The Sandman and it's him again 😂

YOU GUYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Did I just design a Cardinal Richelieu Theme Bike jersey and going to get it printed?! Abso-fucking-lutely!

"Vincent... Where did you run off to?"

"Salvation."

Warrior Nun (Psalms 116:15)

I do want to know your top 5 joan paintings? I can make no promises but even just in general the concepts slap (also I am living for your mcr opinions and getting so pumped up to listen to them again, thank you)

VINDICATION FOR MY CORRECT MCR OPINIONS

okay sorry. joan time.

joan of arc listening to the voices by eugène thirion (1876)

this is THE definitive joan painting for me. the textures. the placement of the bodies. the figure in armour in the background. is that joan too? are we seeing into the future? is she? her expression's inscrutable to me but, i like to think that when she heard the voices they told her she would die and still she chose to take up the sword. i love any piece of media that reminds the audience of its own voyeurism. you are looking at joan knowing she will be burned at the stake before she turns 20, and joan is looking back at you. further correct opinions under the cut

2. sleeping joan of arc by george w. joy (1895)

oughh. this one renders me inconsolable. even martyrs need naps. the vulnerability of falling asleep contrasted with the refusal to take off her armour. the tender way the angel is cradling her feet...sword within reach, hands crossed in prayer or like a corpse [ethel cain voice] god loves you but not enough to save you

3. joan of arc by albert lynch (1903)

a classic! the martyr the myth the legend! i don't have much to say about this one i just think it's really pretty <3 the hairstyle that launched a thousand photoshoots. the field of lilies she's in the middle of...i don't know if lilies were associated with funerals in 1903 (surely they must have been i can't see that tradition being only 100 years old) but to someone who's been to a Lot of funerals she is quite literally dead and alive at the same time. what is a ghost? something dead that seems to be alive. something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

4. joan of arc - harold piffard (c.1897)

again, i just think this one's neat :^). i was surprised when i found a date for it because to my (untrained, not an art historian) eye it looks SO modern. it looks like it could have been painted in photoshop in 2011, that is in no way a dig i just think it's the light which is throwing me off. this one has such a simple colour palate, the red of her skirt is largely obscured idk i want it on a tshirt with some poetry or lyrics on it. also can we talk about the folds where her banner is draped over her shoulders? godly.

5. joan of arc by dante gabriel rossetti (1882*)

i am in general not a fan of rossetti-he could paint one face and it looked like carlos ii of spain which is deeply unflattering to say the least; everyone he painted looked like a hapsburg second cousin. so, my condolences. even this one i'm not sure i like because all the shades of red are too similar that her hair and the background and all the detail on her robe sort of blend together like tomato soup. but still the close upper body crop (for lack of a better word) really brings you up close and the way that the eye, for those who read left-right which is what rossetti's audience would have been, goes from her hands along the pommel of her sword along the blade to her face and the angle of her face is quite striking!

*he did an almost identical watercolour with even tighter framing in 1864