Thursday, August 28, 2008

Is This a Dagger I See Before Me?

On the last night (Wed 24th Sept) of the Labour Party conference in Manchester, when the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won, there is a special performance of Macbeth at the Salford Lowry Centre, performed by the National Youth Theatre, and that's where you'll find local MP Hazel Blears and her husband…

A play about plotting and assassination…a nice change from Labour Party conference.

'If it were done when ’t is done, then ’t were well It were done quickly.'

14 comments:

Newmania said...

....Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers
Wherever in your sightless substancesYou wait on nature's mischief! ....

Anonymous said...

When I look at Labour at the moment - and especially at Brown, the play I'm most reminded of is Richard II...

"Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
To foreign passages, and in the end,
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
But that I was a journeyman to grief?"

Anonymous said...

'stand nor on the order of thy going but GO'!!!

Alan Douglas said...

Yep, bring the curtain down on the Scottish play !

Alan Douglas

Anonymous said...

Anon 11:21am

"... und GEHEN JETZT " [et ALLEZ VITE]

Catosays said...

Oh, if only the knife would slip!!

Newmania said...

.... the jealousy of Othello, the ambition of Macbeth and the indecision of Hamlet......

Now who could that be ?

Anonymous said...

the jealousy of Othello, the ambition of Macbeth and the indecision of Hamlet......

and the sanity of Lear? The morals of Angelo? The looks of Caliban, the efficiency of Bottom, the powerlust of Richard III combined with the touchiness and self-delusion of Richard II, the priggish self-importance of Malvolio and King John's grasp of realpolitik.

Good job it was Marlowe that wrote Edward II. Wouldn't want to draw any similarities with that play.

Newmania said...

Nice work Mr. Jilted .Malvolio !Brilliant if we could just persuade some focus group to recommend yellow garters and a horribly unnatural smile ...ahhhh...

....The honesty of Iago , the sheer good nature of John the Bastard , the physical beauty of Thersites , the Gravitas of Sir Andrew Aguecheek , the sweet nature of Caliban the loyalty of Gonnerill .The centrality , and longevity of Rosencratz and Gilderstein...

Anonymous said...

'tis better playing with a lion's whelp than with an old one dying.

What a literary appreciative lot we are.

There's something of the young Hal about Cameron - you know, forgetting his licentious Eton chums in the face of the exigencies of impending high office.

I feel sorry for the poor Bardolphs who got expelled.

Where are they now?

Anonymous said...

Is this a description of Milliband, Straw, Harman, Johnston, Hain, Blears,et al?
"This was the noblest of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ( office);
He,only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world"This was a man!"
Silly question.

Anonymous said...

I couldn't have put it better myself

kinglear said...

Iain,I'm sorry, I can't take any joy in you poster's erudition. None of Shakespeare's characters should be saddled with Brown's character.
Mind you, there's one character on the Eurpean stage that has all the attributes of a wonderful Shakespearean charcacter. One man who I would like to have dinner with and while away an hour or two. One man who doesn't give a stuff about PC, spin or any other nonsense that makes our lives less than they could be.
I am of course referring to Falstaff - the only really real person Shakespeare ever wrote about.
And a dead ringer for Berlusconi, including the cowardice bit....

Anonymous said...

Stuff Bill Shakespeare. I think more of "Carry on Cleo"

"Infamy! Infamy!, they've all got it in for me"