| Local Theatre |
| Martin | quote:
C'est Tous theatre company, based in Leyland, are touring the region with an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's best loved plays -- the timeless love story Romeo and Juliet.
And C'est Tous will be stopping off at Samlesbury Hall on July 11, at 7pm, for a performance in the heart of summertime.
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| Hayleypink | cool, i dont really understand shakespeare - not posh enough! |
| Martin | Methinks the lady doth protest too much! |
| Hayleypink | me thinks martin nicked that quote from a website |
| Martin | I didn't nick anything from a website!!!!
anyway
quote:
I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth
and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth
seems to me a sterile promotory;
this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this mighty o'rehanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire; why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in aprehension, how like a God!
The beauty of the world, paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust.
Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither.
I did nick that though... The closing scene from Withnail and I
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
cool, i dont really understand shakespeare - not posh enough!
Did you not have to "do" a Shakespeare play for GCSE, Hayley?
I went to see an outdoor performance of "A Winter's Tale" at Gawsworth Hall in Cheshire, which was really good, but it was the glorious summer of 76 - don't think it would have been quite so much fun had it been piddling down! [8D] |
| Lady Griffin | quote:
Originally posted by Martin
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a God!
What!!!!!!!!!
LG
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| Martin | It is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet... |
| Hayleypink | Linda I did an 2 English A Levels (and Law) in a year at evening school - and got passes in all 3! We studied Shakespeare - but it was an intensive course so I didnt have time to study full books, just know enough to do the exam. Oh and I got a a* for english gcse... |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
We studied Shakespeare - but it was an intensive course so I didnt have time to study full books, just know enough to do the exam.
Now this is what gets me about modern exams - you can do an A-level in a subject without studying a full book! To us oldies, Hayley, that sounds so bizarre! My son worked hard for his GCSEs last year and we were very proud of him, but...... night before his French oral he asked me to test him and he could barely string together two sentences. I thought uh-oh, we're gonna be lucky to scrape a pass on this one, but he got an A. To get an A back in the 70's you had to be almost fluent - certainly had to make sure you flung in a subjunctive or two into your essay! In maths you can now take a calculator into the exam! We had to work it out with log books. But I'm sure the generation above me thought my generation had it easy, and so on, and so on.....
Well done on taking your A-levels in one year, Hayley - that must have been hard work. I know it was for my husband when he sat double maths and physics in one year. I went the conventional route of a two-year course, but I was studying one subject I hadn't done at O-level, so it was entirely new. |
| Hayleypink | thanks linda. nag doing a levels in a year was ok. i was working at the time and had one lesson a week of each subject in the evening. i met a lovely lady called eileen, she was a head teacher. lost contact after exmas but we were great study pals. i have a good memory and i loved english and law so everything sank in pretty well. |