that was my thought on first seeing it, but I think the "Lear" stuff was just a jumping-off point.
I thought I might be the only one I'd ever meet who read Cox's "Lear Diaries." I missed his Lear by a few months...at that time, there were three major productions in London and I couldn't get away. but I caught a National Theatre Platform T…
that was my thought on first seeing it, but I think the "Lear" stuff was just a jumping-off point.
I thought I might be the only one I'd ever meet who read Cox's "Lear Diaries." I missed his Lear by a few months...at that time, there were three major productions in London and I couldn't get away. but I caught a National Theatre Platform Talk after the production and before the book came out and had a talk with him in the bookstore after the talk (his experience of playing Lear wasn't a wonderful one). the talk inspired me to write some fiction about a guy playing Lear and what happens to him, and I tried a little but gave up. I saw him a year so later in this one-man play in a tiny off-off Broadway theater on the far west side in midtown. I'd gone with a good old grad school friend and a weird thing happened. Cox was just there, in front of us, a regular guy who could have been mistaken for a semi-well-heeled bum. then, at the precise time the performance was supposed to start, he changed completely...you could actually SEE this whole other "thing" (power? vital force? Dionysus entering him?...who the fuck knows). but we both just gasped and turned to each other at the same time and asked "shit...did you see THAT??"
and when the play ended, he was once again the same guy you'd pass on the street and notice only that he's very short.
so I'm inclined to like Brian Cox a LOT.
I also very recently received a gift (very similarly acquired) of a HUGE (65") tv. I was embarrassed the first few days, because buying something that size is something I'd never have done (it would've represented too much of a commitment to television or something dumb like that). but after those few days, it grew on me. I will say that watching something like basketball on a screen that huge can get me a little nauseated, but I watch basketball very seldom. the old movies on it (especially with those great new prints you can see on Criterion, which is an extra monthly charge but well worth it) look absolutely GORGEOUS. I do find that films shot in a digital medium don't quite look enough like FILM for me. but that's just me.
that was my thought on first seeing it, but I think the "Lear" stuff was just a jumping-off point.
I thought I might be the only one I'd ever meet who read Cox's "Lear Diaries." I missed his Lear by a few months...at that time, there were three major productions in London and I couldn't get away. but I caught a National Theatre Platform Talk after the production and before the book came out and had a talk with him in the bookstore after the talk (his experience of playing Lear wasn't a wonderful one). the talk inspired me to write some fiction about a guy playing Lear and what happens to him, and I tried a little but gave up. I saw him a year so later in this one-man play in a tiny off-off Broadway theater on the far west side in midtown. I'd gone with a good old grad school friend and a weird thing happened. Cox was just there, in front of us, a regular guy who could have been mistaken for a semi-well-heeled bum. then, at the precise time the performance was supposed to start, he changed completely...you could actually SEE this whole other "thing" (power? vital force? Dionysus entering him?...who the fuck knows). but we both just gasped and turned to each other at the same time and asked "shit...did you see THAT??"
and when the play ended, he was once again the same guy you'd pass on the street and notice only that he's very short.
so I'm inclined to like Brian Cox a LOT.
I also very recently received a gift (very similarly acquired) of a HUGE (65") tv. I was embarrassed the first few days, because buying something that size is something I'd never have done (it would've represented too much of a commitment to television or something dumb like that). but after those few days, it grew on me. I will say that watching something like basketball on a screen that huge can get me a little nauseated, but I watch basketball very seldom. the old movies on it (especially with those great new prints you can see on Criterion, which is an extra monthly charge but well worth it) look absolutely GORGEOUS. I do find that films shot in a digital medium don't quite look enough like FILM for me. but that's just me.