I'm glad you got to go out - and sorry it was so tiring!
Thank you on both counts!
Unfortunately, wearing the masks does seem to be physically tiring in itself
I find them sensorily awful. It doesn't affect my breathing; it's the same nauseating wrongness as certain textures or kinds of touch. I said almost exactly two years ago that at the end of the pandemic either I would be amazingly desensitized or no one would ever be able to touch my face again. Unfortunately, I suspect we are heading for option B.
Anyway, may there be more good things and less tiredness sometime soon.
*hugs*
I would love to be less tired. I literally can't remember the last time I didn't feel like I was dragging myself out of death in the morning. I don't think it was any time in the last year.
That was the play I did for my A-Levels and I loved it (much to my surprised). We watched the Oliver, the Branagh, the BBC, and went to Stratford to see it,and honestly I liked them all a lot in different ways.
Nice! I'm not familiar at all with the BBC version. I have seen Branagh's, also not since high school. I have never seen a staged version, although I keep hoping: I've been disappointed in the wake of two very different productions of Henry IV.
My abiding memory of the Olivier is that it had my favourite Constable of France. He was so beautifully done with the Dauphin and delivered the horse line best of anyone.
That's Leo Genn! I will look forward to the rest of his scenes.
[edit] "It is the best horse of Europe."
The only thing I clearly remember is Tony Britton as Chorus, as a WWI veteran with a poppy in a long dark coat
That's a good image to retain.
I looked it up a few years ago, because knowing the date and the Tony Britton thing, I ought to be able to sure of it when I found it - and I saw Iain Glen! It would be more impressive if I could remember anything specifically about his performance, but hey. It's Henry V. If he hadn't been great, we wouldn't have enjoyed it.
Makes sense to me. I saw Karl Johnson in Amadeus at the Old Vic in 1999. I had no way of knowing that a dozen years later he would become almost totemically important to me because of his work with Derek Jarman; I imprinted from that production on David Suchet's Salieri; years later I discovered that its Mozart had been Michael Sheen. I remember some of his gestures and inflections. I have almost nothing of Karl Johnson except a flicker of his face because it was interesting. He was playing a supporting role. So I appreciate that I have seen him live, but it is mostly an abstract fact.
Coincidentally, I have been watched Laurence Olivier this week as well, as I watched his (MIchael Elliott's) 1983 ITV King Lear, which also has Diana RIgg and Dorothy Tutin in.
See, that one I loved just for John Hurt as the Fool.
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Thank you on both counts!
Unfortunately, wearing the masks does seem to be physically tiring in itself
I find them sensorily awful. It doesn't affect my breathing; it's the same nauseating wrongness as certain textures or kinds of touch. I said almost exactly two years ago that at the end of the pandemic either I would be amazingly desensitized or no one would ever be able to touch my face again. Unfortunately, I suspect we are heading for option B.
Anyway, may there be more good things and less tiredness sometime soon.
*hugs*
I would love to be less tired. I literally can't remember the last time I didn't feel like I was dragging myself out of death in the morning. I don't think it was any time in the last year.
That was the play I did for my A-Levels and I loved it (much to my surprised). We watched the Oliver, the Branagh, the BBC, and went to Stratford to see it,and honestly I liked them all a lot in different ways.
Nice! I'm not familiar at all with the BBC version. I have seen Branagh's, also not since high school. I have never seen a staged version, although I keep hoping: I've been disappointed in the wake of two very different productions of Henry IV.
My abiding memory of the Olivier is that it had my favourite Constable of France. He was so beautifully done with the Dauphin and delivered the horse line best of anyone.
That's Leo Genn! I will look forward to the rest of his scenes.
[edit] "It is the best horse of Europe."
The only thing I clearly remember is Tony Britton as Chorus, as a WWI veteran with a poppy in a long dark coat
That's a good image to retain.
I looked it up a few years ago, because knowing the date and the Tony Britton thing, I ought to be able to sure of it when I found it - and I saw Iain Glen! It would be more impressive if I could remember anything specifically about his performance, but hey. It's Henry V. If he hadn't been great, we wouldn't have enjoyed it.
Makes sense to me. I saw Karl Johnson in Amadeus at the Old Vic in 1999. I had no way of knowing that a dozen years later he would become almost totemically important to me because of his work with Derek Jarman; I imprinted from that production on David Suchet's Salieri; years later I discovered that its Mozart had been Michael Sheen. I remember some of his gestures and inflections. I have almost nothing of Karl Johnson except a flicker of his face because it was interesting. He was playing a supporting role. So I appreciate that I have seen him live, but it is mostly an abstract fact.
Coincidentally, I have been watched Laurence Olivier this week as well, as I watched his (MIchael Elliott's) 1983 ITV King Lear, which also has Diana RIgg and Dorothy Tutin in.
See, that one I loved just for John Hurt as the Fool.