our very own miss Desdemona
the first day of the rehearsals for Desdemona…. and our much needed props
our poster :)
Happy 200th birthday, Mr Dickens
From A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens
Poem by Richard Price
I Am Greatly Changed
That poor dream, as I once used to call it,
has all gone by. (The freshness of beauty
is the saddened softened light
of once proud eyes.) I have very often - .
I intended to come back. Tracing, proving.
I thought - . I thought you would like - .
‘God bless you, God forgive you!’
you said to me.
I am greatly changed.
I thought you would like to shake hands.
What I had never felt before
was the friendly touch.
I very often hoped - .
I have often
thought of you.
An imaginary case.
I have been considerate and good,
I have been bent and broken,
suffering, God forgive you.
Suffering, God bless you.
(Suffering has been stronger
than all other teaching,
a heart to understand
what my heart used to be.)
The ground belongs!
Everything else,
little by little, has gone.
I wonder you know me.
If you could say to me then
‘God bless you! God forgive you!’
you will not hesitate now.
(‘God bless you,’ you said to me).
Poor, poor old place!
Ruined place.
Would I step back?
Ignorant, held?
She gave me her assurance
(her voice, her touch).
I took her hand,
evening mists rising now, tranquil.
‘We are friends.’
Lovely black and white vintage - and very appropriate given how cold it is outside..
Frank Navara, Street scene during a heavy snowstorm in Astoria, NY, 1940
on a recent voyage to London, we stumbled upon a familiar name…. and right next to George Bernard Shaw - what those walls must have had seen and heard….
