Categories: television, theatre
Date: 09 February 2008 01:50:37
The first episode of this series screened on Wednesday night here [on Pay TV]: I taped[*] it and watched it last night. What a great, fun show. That era of history intrigues me for a number of reasons -- the life of royalty, the changes in religion, the fantastic clothes! -- and I think a great job was done in bringing it to life on the screen. I am guessing, and given I am not that knowledgeable about that aspect of English history, that licence will be taken, but that does not bother me: in dramatisations licence is to be expected, and I would only want exact representations of what happened, or as close to it as can be guessed, if I were watching a documentary or purported 'real story'. Looking forward to future episodes.
Tonight I continue around-a-bout the same era, weather willing [doesn't look good currently: as a fellow participant said to me in Pilates this morning, "Where has summer gone? If, in fact, it was ever here?" -- rain, rain, rain], with the Sydney Shakespeare Festival's performance of Much Ado About Nothing. I have not seen that play performed yet [or even heard much about it], so I am looking forward to it, particularly as it is outside and in a very nice spot in Sydney. In addition, 10% of the money from each ticket sold goes to HIV research through the Westmead Millennium Institute's Millennium Foundation: a good cause indeed.
[*] well, I suppose recorded as I used a DVD not a VCR tape: another word that may be lost soon...