...And Sometimes They Don't Improve.

[ngelinadb]

Poked at the embroidery some Tuesday night, decided it was hopeless and ripped it all out. Note to self re: inadvisability of using outline stitch on loose ground. Supplemental note to self re: advisability of mounting loose ground on something stiffer in the first place.

Got as far as mounting last night, before I was distracted by shiny things

Comments

[dieppe]

OOooh, I'll bet Thomas wasn't too fond of "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" with guns and such either, huh?

[ngelinadb]

His response does not bear contemplation....

[anonymous]

Thomas may not have liked the Romeo & Juliet with guns, but I have to confess that I really enjoyed it! I actually like a lot of the Shakespeare in different eras productions, for some reason; they often seem better acted and faster paced than the more staid, traditional productions where, all too often, it seems as if the actors are merely reciting lines, rather than actually engaging in dialogue or interacting in a drama.

The 10-minute Hamlet Shakespeare group out here has done their own version of "Titus Andronicus"---as an Iron Chef style cooking show!

The Lancaster Shakespeare Festival is coming in April, and I hear they're going to put on "Pericles" this year, which hardly ever gets done. Karen, I don't know if you'd like to come and see that, or not.

[anonymous]

I've heard, by the way, that there is a Japanese Kabuki production of "Titus Andronicus" somewhere out there; no blood shed, when characters die they are simply led offstage by a stage hand, all violence suggested symbolically, rather than actually shown---traditional or not, this seems to me about the easiest way to sit through "Titus", if you actually HAD to! That, or 10-Minute Hamlet's (satirical)Food Network version! "Titus" is not one of the Bard's more appealing works (though it appears to be enjoying a strange popularity these days). I'm all in favor of anything that makes it easier to get through. . .