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Sandscript Tells Tales
What do Winnie the Pooh, J S Bach and John Le Carre have in common? Stories told, over and over.
I was recently reading Winnie the Pooh to the youngest member of the family, he is only four months old, but his parents have already started a bed time story routine. It was a chance to be reunited with A.A. Milne’s stories, which appeal to adults and children alike. The first chapter was more of a mouthful than I recalled, I wanted to edit, too many ‘he saids and you saids’. But there is a good reason. Forget all the Disneyfication and commercial toys that have come since. There is only one Winnie the Pooh and he is the real teddy bear that belonged to the real child Christopher Robin. His father told him tales about his own toys, something any parent can do with their child. The original books with their drawings by E H Shepard are all a child needs.
http://www.poohcorner.com/A-Short-His...
On Good Friday and Saturday, Streetwise Opera presented their edited version of Bach’s St. Mathew’s Passion in Manchester’s Campfield Market, the audience were required to promenade and follow the performers; true street theatre. It was broadcast on BBC4 on Easter Sunday. Bach set words from Saint Mathew’s Gospel to music to be played and sung at a church service, the congregation were being told the story of the last few days of Christ’s life.
At The Lighthouse, Poole, on Good Friday, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Southern Sinfonia Baroque presented Bach’s St. John Passion sung in English. The audience was there for the wonderful music, but this was not just a concert; with a small orchestra the soloists held centre stage and James Oxley as the Evanglelist told the story. Whatever your faith or none, this is a cracking story, always relevant. Most of us presume we would never be like Judas, but are we so sure we would not deny our best friend as Peter did? Politics are nothing new, in Pilate’s place what would we have done?
Equally morally ambivalent was ‘The Night Manager’, a BBC 1 drama that has kept many of us gripped, with the final episode on Easter Day. Based on the novel by John Le Carre, according to executive producer Simon Cornwell, who also happens to be the author’s son, they decided to ‘recontextualise’ the novel in the present day. Le Carre, who cameos in the series, approved of all the changes. It worked; a modern tale of arms dealing in the Middle East. Roper, played brilliantly by Hugh Laurie, we know is evil beneath the smooth exterior. Jonathon Pine is on the side of the good and the innocent, but has to do bad things if Roper is to be stopped and lives saved. Most of us don’t trust governments, nor do we know how to stop those who have money and ruthlessness on their side. We just hope that as in all good stories, secret heroes are fighting on the side of the innocents.
I was recently reading Winnie the Pooh to the youngest member of the family, he is only four months old, but his parents have already started a bed time story routine. It was a chance to be reunited with A.A. Milne’s stories, which appeal to adults and children alike. The first chapter was more of a mouthful than I recalled, I wanted to edit, too many ‘he saids and you saids’. But there is a good reason. Forget all the Disneyfication and commercial toys that have come since. There is only one Winnie the Pooh and he is the real teddy bear that belonged to the real child Christopher Robin. His father told him tales about his own toys, something any parent can do with their child. The original books with their drawings by E H Shepard are all a child needs.
http://www.poohcorner.com/A-Short-His...
On Good Friday and Saturday, Streetwise Opera presented their edited version of Bach’s St. Mathew’s Passion in Manchester’s Campfield Market, the audience were required to promenade and follow the performers; true street theatre. It was broadcast on BBC4 on Easter Sunday. Bach set words from Saint Mathew’s Gospel to music to be played and sung at a church service, the congregation were being told the story of the last few days of Christ’s life.
At The Lighthouse, Poole, on Good Friday, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Southern Sinfonia Baroque presented Bach’s St. John Passion sung in English. The audience was there for the wonderful music, but this was not just a concert; with a small orchestra the soloists held centre stage and James Oxley as the Evanglelist told the story. Whatever your faith or none, this is a cracking story, always relevant. Most of us presume we would never be like Judas, but are we so sure we would not deny our best friend as Peter did? Politics are nothing new, in Pilate’s place what would we have done?
Equally morally ambivalent was ‘The Night Manager’, a BBC 1 drama that has kept many of us gripped, with the final episode on Easter Day. Based on the novel by John Le Carre, according to executive producer Simon Cornwell, who also happens to be the author’s son, they decided to ‘recontextualise’ the novel in the present day. Le Carre, who cameos in the series, approved of all the changes. It worked; a modern tale of arms dealing in the Middle East. Roper, played brilliantly by Hugh Laurie, we know is evil beneath the smooth exterior. Jonathon Pine is on the side of the good and the innocent, but has to do bad things if Roper is to be stopped and lives saved. Most of us don’t trust governments, nor do we know how to stop those who have money and ruthlessness on their side. We just hope that as in all good stories, secret heroes are fighting on the side of the innocents.
Sandscript
I like to write first drafts with pen and paper; at home, in busy cafes, in the garden, at our beach hut... even sitting in a sea front car park waiting for the rain to stop I get my note book out. We
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