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Post by Zulus Thousand of em » Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:23 pm

... or you could avail yourself of the services offered by the Russian Brides website. A link has been thoughtfully provided on this very site. :wink:
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Post by thebish » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:28 pm

i'm going out to behead a paediatrician and a podiatrist and a pea-distribution-manager - just for good measure

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Post by Zulus Thousand of em » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:31 pm

thebish wrote:i'm going out to behead a paediatrician and a podiatrist and a pea-distribution-manager - just for good measure
Cast your net wide, Bish! :D
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Post by Lord Kangana » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:31 pm

Apparantly pedestrian sounds similar to paedophile in Spanish. I think thats excuse enough when driving home tonight Bish.
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Post by enfieldwhite » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:02 pm

Puskas wrote:Tonight I am going home.

By myself.

To weep.
Stop picking the scab and get some air to it.

That should sort it.
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Post by thebish » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:19 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Apparantly pedestrian sounds similar to paedophile in Spanish. I think thats excuse enough when driving home tonight Bish.
I'll bear it in mind! 8)

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Post by Il Pirate » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:28 pm

William the White wrote:Not tonight, but this lunch time, going to the Octagon for Poetry on a Plate - this time Coleridge, read by actors from the Octagon company. You grab some food and go upstairs to the bar for the performance. Last time was John Donne - fab. :D
with throats unslaked, with black lips baked.
we could nor laugh nor wail
through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked blood
and cried, A sail, A sail!

so I'm hopping on the next boat from Pompey back to the IoW and getting balddered in the nearest hostelry....the King Lud actualy, end of Ryde pier.

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Post by Di Stefano » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:00 pm

Zulus Thousand of em wrote:
Puskas wrote:Tonight I am going home.

By myself.

To weep.
Again? You can rent whores by the hour - so I hear. :oops:
He weeps because I'm mean and won't let him play street football with us.

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Post by William the White » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:48 am

Il Pirate wrote:
William the White wrote:Not tonight, but this lunch time, going to the Octagon for Poetry on a Plate - this time Coleridge, read by actors from the Octagon company. You grab some food and go upstairs to the bar for the performance. Last time was John Donne - fab. :D
with throats unslaked, with black lips baked.
we could nor laugh nor wail
through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked blood
and cried, A sail, A sail!

so I'm hopping on the next boat from Pompey back to the IoW and getting balddered in the nearest hostelry....the King Lud actualy, end of Ryde pier.
Yes, at least the opening of the Ancient Mariner was there, and yes, Tango... the opening section of Kubla Khan...

Those two works, and, i suspect, much of the rest, are a product, in part, of the opium - soaked imagination... Was a great lunch-time event though... And i took my own sandwich...

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Post by clapton is god » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:19 am

Octagon for the third in the season, Ghosts.

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Post by thebish » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:37 pm

probably to the bog every 10mins as I have a nasty stomach-crampy dribbly-down-below condition which I think stems from scoffing piles of buffet-food after my eldest son's AS-level prize-giving last night... :vomit:

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Post by Il Pirate » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:30 pm

William the White wrote:
Il Pirate wrote:
William the White wrote:Not tonight, but this lunch time, going to the Octagon for Poetry on a Plate - this time Coleridge, read by actors from the Octagon company. You grab some food and go upstairs to the bar for the performance. Last time was John Donne - fab. :D
with throats unslaked, with black lips baked.
we could nor laugh nor wail
through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked blood
and cried, A sail, A sail!

so I'm hopping on the next boat from Pompey back to the IoW and getting balddered in the nearest hostelry....the King Lud actualy, end of Ryde pier.
Yes, at least the opening of the Ancient Mariner was there, and yes, Tango... the opening section of Kubla Khan...

Those two works, and, i suspect, much of the rest, are a product, in part, of the opium - soaked imagination... Was a great lunch-time event though... And i took my own sandwich...
being Bolton fans maybe Larkin is more to our taste!

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:57 pm

clapton is god wrote:Octagon for the third in the season, Ghosts.
Without ruining it, let us know what you think won't you, Clapton?
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Post by William the White » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:33 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
clapton is god wrote:Octagon for the third in the season, Ghosts.
Without ruining it, let us know what you think won't you, Clapton?
I'm there next Friday. This production is really dividing the critics. Rave in the Mail. Negative in The Guardian. and the locals and specialist journals divide also...

http://octagonbolton.blogspot.com/

Brave and remarkably honest of the Octagon to put the hostile reviews on their site as well as the positive...

I'm looking forward enormously - i'm an Ibsen fan and four of the cast were in the brilliant, unblemished in terms of acting, All My Sons last month.

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:45 pm

William the White wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
clapton is god wrote:Octagon for the third in the season, Ghosts.
Without ruining it, let us know what you think won't you, Clapton?
I'm there next Friday. This production is really dividing the critics. Rave in the Mail. Negative in The Guardian. and the locals and specialist journals divide also...

http://octagonbolton.blogspot.com/

Brave and remarkably honest of the Octagon to put the hostile reviews on their site as well as the positive...

I'm looking forward enormously - i'm an Ibsen fan and four of the cast were in the brilliant, unblemished in terms of acting, All My Sons last month.
Did you get my PM? I'm there on Thursday. Can't wait.
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Post by clapton is god » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:11 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
clapton is god wrote:Octagon for the third in the season, Ghosts.
Without ruining it, let us know what you think won't you, Clapton?
Okay, mini-review, no spoilers:

A dark Victorian angst-ridden melodrama about family secrets which aren't so much slowly revealed as hinted at letting the viewer join the dots to get near the truth.

I found it far too similar to last months offering and I believe the director has said they retained the same glass floor for both productions as they wanted to convey the similarities.

A small and powerful cast most of whom have been retained from All My Sons but for me that was a failing rather than a positive. Same actors and other than losing the American accents the same acting traits. Oscar Pearce (Oswald) must have stayed behind for extra lessons in conveying his voice. He has now spent two productions shouting at the top of his voice!

The production wasn't quite as polished as I would expect either. There were at least a couple of missed cues and fluffed lines, a prop was accidentally broken and as Oscar entered for the first time he dropped his pipe which almost landed in my lap as we were sat in row D which was the very front row and right next to one of the stage access points. I think that may have been one of the reasons I didn't quite enjoy this as much as I was expecting. I was far too close to the action and the cast seemed to spend the entire production almost sat on my knee shouting at each other. I think I prefer my viewing position slightly more elevated than that.

The above sounds negative and picky but I did enjoy it and it sparked a long debate between my wife and myself which is always a good sign. Margot Leicester was for me the pick of the cast playing a powerful matriarch who holds all the family sercrets, or Ghosts of the title. Overall though, after sleeping on it, I think I share The Guardians opinion rather than The Mails. My wife on the other hand, was far more positive. As said, opinion divided.

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Post by clapton is god » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:21 am

...and to add to the above, I've just now sought out and read The Guardians review on the Octagon website (I never do that before seeing a production) and I have to say it is spot on!

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:35 am

clapton is god wrote:...and to add to the above, I've just now sought out and read The Guardians review on the Octagon website (I never do that before seeing a production) and I have to say it is spot on!
See, as a rule, I never read a review of anything before watching/listening to it myself, only on this occasion I have. I'm quite fascinated now. I'll report back.
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Post by superjohnmcginlay » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:07 am

Shoulder of Mutton I reckon.

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Post by General Mannerheim » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:40 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:Shoulder of Mutton I reckon.
on Holcombe hill? good choice!

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