Tag Archive | Jewel in the Claw
Ship of Fools – a Sonnet for the Playwright …
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
“What’s that?” The gentleman standing beside me eyed the scroll in my hand. We had just completed the final ritual of Jewel in the Claw, the five-act workshop written by Steve and set in Elizabethan England. Steve had played Shakespeare… as well as nobly fulfilling the role…
Behind the Scenes…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
It is an odd thing to put on a workshop where ritual and drama are mixed. Odd, but old… theatre has its roots in the sacred drama of ancient times. Even the rituals of the Church have a theatrical element, blending light, song, the glamour of embroidered…
Seeds of Change
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
‘Dr Dee’, ‘Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I’, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’ and ‘Master Shakespeare’ Time does strange things. It is just a week since our workshop and already it feels as if it is receding into the mists, and yet, it is also as clear and sharp as…
Shades of the Golden Age…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
As a child, I loved the old movies of the swashbuckling variety. Even then, I knew the stories were not real and the history likely to be wildly innaccurate. Romance and adventure did not wait behind every tree. Magic, though, had its own reality. With a family…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 