Tag Archives: judaism
The Other Place: A journey into the Underworld with the Witch of Endor
(image from Genius.com) At the age of 6 or so I drew a picture pretty similar to this one in my school RE lesson and it’s been a question in my mind ever since and inspired my latest Something Understood … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Radio, Religion
Tagged Christianity, dante, francis dashwood, hellfire club, ireland, Islam, john agard, judaism, limbo, limbo babies, monteverdi, orfeo, orpheus, orpheus and eurydice, rabbi jonathan romain, saul, sheol, the divine comedy, william hogarth, witch of endor
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Shylock: A Traveller in Time
The film producer Davina Belling once said of Jonathan Pryce that she always uses him as a lesson for actors “not to count their lines when they’re offered a role. He had 20 lines in the whole film [Breaking Glass] … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Film, History, Media, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged anti semitism, breaking glass, bullingdon club, carry on matron, Germany, jonathan pryce, judaism, kenneth cope, Nazism, shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, shylock
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