Pants.
I lost my old blog when I deleted my old gmail account and due to final Year/ first Semester Stress, I didn’t have an awful lot of spare time to write. I start this new blog with reasonably good intentions. I recently joined twitter and have been hooked on catching updates from the likes of Stephen Fry which is awesome (another apple enthusiast might I add – the gentleman is twittering from his iphone… Slap a pair of aviators on this man and hand him a mojito – He is cool)
I read recently that the comedic genius himself actually owns the second ever macintosh sold in Europe. I wonder where his opinions lie in regards to the endless array of nerds (thankfully, I am not including myself in this ULTRA-NERD category) who seem to think that the world wants to see them unboxing their new Apple computers? I know I’m bad but come on!
Just finished a short play entitled: Pat & Joe take a bath. Don’t read anything into the title. It’s supposed to be brutal and harrowing and black in genre, but I managed to make a comedic reference to ‘Pat Butcher’ which was highly untoward. The piece is set in a dingy cellar somewhere in North Armagh, Northern Ireland. Premise being that the protagonist is a retired paramilitary soldier, whom along with the lousiest, most moronic human being on the planet – has to divulge some information from a publican who’s bar is situated on the border line between two conflicting neighbourhoods in the village. He’s accused of being informant to the B-Specials; his right wrist tied to the taps of an old bath in the centre of the cellar. Tortured etc. I’ll not elaborate too much just incase a.) someone thinks my ideas good enough to steal b.) I end up publishing half of my play online and resultingly get done for plagiarism when excerpts show up online the week before it’s reviewed.
Anywho, I’m currently re-drafting my Independent Project question. Initially, I had intended to address the following: ‘A study of the translation of theatre texts: Analyse the issues involved in translating Shakespearean plays.’
However, I’ve since been informed that my question refers to an area, much too vast for an independent project, and would be more suited to my PhD. Which is fine, only – I can’t think of what else to write about. Apparantly, even honing in on one Shakespearean piece is too much! Poo.
Perhaps back to the drawing board on that. I need to keep it performance based, so If anyone just so happens to know a friend, or a brother, or an aunt… Or maybe the brother of an aunt’s friend or whatever – someone who might be able to gimme some advice on the research area. ie. Translation Theory Re: Performance Text – Please endeavour to get in touch and help me!
Oh by the way, not as cool as Fry, but I think I deserve at least the mojito?
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Night
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