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My two most recent play publications - Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham and The Pilgrim's Progress are available from @TSLpub
The Pilgrim's Progress
Step into an unforgettable journey with this epic adaptation of John Bunyanās timeless allegory, The Pilgrimās Progress. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this dramatization brings to the stage the tale of Christian, who flees the City of Destruction on a perilous quest to reach the Celestial City. Guided by Evangelist, Christian encounters a host of vivid charactersāboth friends and foesāincluding the treacherous Mr Worldly Wiseman, the loquacious Talkative, and the fearsome Apollyon. We follow Christianās trials as he battles through the murky Slough of Despond, faces persecution at the chaotic Vanity Fair, and confronts the enormous Giant Despair in the menacing Doubting Castle. Meanwhile, his family endures their own hardships in his absence, adding a poignant counterpoint to his epic journey.
tslbooks.uk/product/the-pilgā¦
Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham
London, 1800. Things arenāt going too well for William Blake. He lacks work, his wife worries over the bills, heās seeing visions of the Apocalypse, and his planned epic poem on the divine remains unwritten. When Blake gets an offer from famous poet William Hayley to leave London and settle in a cottage at the seaside village of Felpham, he jumps at the chance. In Felpham, things donāt quite work out the way Blake had them plannedā¦
tslbooks.uk/product/divine-vā¦
The cover designs are by brilliant @MiddlesexUni BA Graphic Design graduate Phillip Block.
Fellow here has clearly never read a Shakespeare history play.
What is this English ethnicity that "simply exists"? The Saxons? The Normans? Did you know that the term English was applied to the low-born who were ruled after the Norman conquest? Did the English know that they were English before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
I know this is Twitter and that everything goes. It so happens that there are people who have devoted their whole career to the study of these issues too here, so I suggest you read a few history books before making absurd claims on an eternal English essence. I can suggest a reading list if you want.
Stories as emblems, part nth.
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a ādesire to destroy.ā
(Source: L'Est RĆ©publicain)
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Well, if you will come into the restaurantā¦
Dear non-Muslims,
As Ramadan is just 92 days away,
Please avoid eating in front of Muslims who are fasting.
Please avoid drinking in their presence.
Do not deliberately tempt those observing the fast.
Muslims will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
A little consideration and respect go a long way. ā¤ļøš
Well, if you will come into the restaurantā¦
Dear non-Muslims,
As Ramadan is just 92 days away,
Please avoid eating in front of Muslims who are fasting.
Please avoid drinking in their presence.
Do not deliberately tempt those observing the fast.
Muslims will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
A little consideration and respect go a long way. ā¤ļøš
This kind of stuff reveals our society's moral cowardice and many of its members' latent sadism, in an unholy stew. It's not much better than the crimes themselves.
Obsession (1976) is a very beautifully made film very beautiful built on a script idea that has already been perfected years before. But damn, the aesthetics are incredible. letterboxd.com/jmcfire/film/ā¦
Street People (1976, aka Sicilian Cross, aka The Executors) has Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, the Mafia and a Sicilian crucifix adding up to a lot of stuff and nonsense. letterboxd.com/jmcfire/film/ā¦
Razzall sounds like one of those curse words writers make up when they arenāt allowed to swear in sitcoms, like naff. āWhat you got? - Razzall.ā
This is what we used to call "chancing it" back in the day.
These āmodestā proposals include:
āmonetary compensation as reparations from enslaving
nations, monarchies, churches, institutions, corporations and families, for loss of life and uncompensated labour, loss of liberty, personal injury, mental pain and anguish and gender-based violenceā and
The ācomplete cancellation of
all CARICOM-European bilateral debt as a complementary mechanism to the
demand for monetary compensationā
Delusional
James Martin Charlton retweeted
Treating people as ācrude meansā is the problem, I reckon.
I've met Russell Brand twice (I think):
Once when I hosted a Guardian Live event about his book in 2014.
Another time I interviewed him for The Big Issue when I was guest editing in 2015.
He also gave my publishers an endorsement for my book The Establishment, which I was mortified about at the time mostly because I thought it was so OTT it would obviously invite ridicule (which it did).
At the time I saw him as a crude means to reach disillusioned younger people with left-wing politics - the sort of people who wouldn't be reached by conventional left-wing journalists and politicians.
As a result I was willing to overlook, or just not look into, his history of problematic behaviour / statements, including sexism.
I convinced myself that he was on some sort of journey and that was a good thing. That was an obvious misjudgement.
I did think he was a bit of a chancer / had a messianic complex, but overlooked that too as a necessary evil in reaching disengaged people.
But that was clearly his main driving force and he clearly ended up concluding that right-wing politics was a better vehicle to satisfy it.
It's an important lesson in not stupidly engaging clearly problematic figures, however charismatic or however much mass appeal they have, in the service of a cause.
What I would say is that right now we should be centring the survivors of a rapist and sexual predator.
I personally don't really think those trying to point score have his survivors' interests at heart.
I would also argue that those with the big questions to answer are the right-wing figures who continue to stand by him and spread conspiratorial nonsense in his defence.
Finally, let's hope that other possible survivors of Russell Brand feel able to come forward.
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Jones also provided a blurb for Brand's book Revolution ("Funny, full of charm, and engaging") and wrote 2015 Guardian columns praising Brand's Labour endorsement and defending engagement with him.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
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Treating people as ācrude meansā is the problem, I reckon.
I've met Russell Brand twice (I think):
Once when I hosted a Guardian Live event about his book in 2014.
Another time I interviewed him for The Big Issue when I was guest editing in 2015.
He also gave my publishers an endorsement for my book The Establishment, which I was mortified about at the time mostly because I thought it was so OTT it would obviously invite ridicule (which it did).
At the time I saw him as a crude means to reach disillusioned younger people with left-wing politics - the sort of people who wouldn't be reached by conventional left-wing journalists and politicians.
As a result I was willing to overlook, or just not look into, his history of problematic behaviour / statements, including sexism.
I convinced myself that he was on some sort of journey and that was a good thing. That was an obvious misjudgement.
I did think he was a bit of a chancer / had a messianic complex, but overlooked that too as a necessary evil in reaching disengaged people.
But that was clearly his main driving force and he clearly ended up concluding that right-wing politics was a better vehicle to satisfy it.
It's an important lesson in not stupidly engaging clearly problematic figures, however charismatic or however much mass appeal they have, in the service of a cause.
What I would say is that right now we should be centring the survivors of a rapist and sexual predator.
I personally don't really think those trying to point score have his survivors' interests at heart.
I would also argue that those with the big questions to answer are the right-wing figures who continue to stand by him and spread conspiratorial nonsense in his defence.
Finally, let's hope that other possible survivors of Russell Brand feel able to come forward.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Jones also provided a blurb for Brand's book Revolution ("Funny, full of charm, and engaging") and wrote 2015 Guardian columns praising Brand's Labour endorsement and defending engagement with him.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
Readers might enjoy this short extract from the book.
I worked with academics who published a tome on Russell Brand a decade ago. Because I had previously lived on Carpenters Estate, I had heard some unsavoury things about some of the Focus E15 women not being happy with his antics. I mentioned this to one of the academics, who couldnāt have been less interested. I was told it was irrelevant. Theory was more important. Let them reflect on it now.
Yesterday I was pleased to attend the announcements of this years winners of the Theatre Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Theatre Research. And I am even more pleased to say that I will be on next year's judging panel. I look forwards to lots of theatrical reading! broadwayworld.com/uk-regionaā¦
James Martin Charlton retweeted
.@jmc_fire argues that attempts to claim that Jason Arday has been exonerated only undermine the truth
thecritic.co.uk/plagiarism-pā¦
