Friday 28 March 2014

Friday Five: TV I'm watching

Yes, tonight is opening night of the Canberra Repertory Society production of Twelfth Night, and, no, I've not been home a lot in the evenings. But thanks to on-line services, I have been able to watch a few programmes to take my mind off persistently running lines in my brain.

Richard Roxburgh as the irrepressible Rake
5 TV programmes I'm currently watching:
  1. Rake - my favourite Australian drama; Richard Roxburgh is sensational as the reprobate lawyer and heads a spectacular cast delivering excellent scripts. The tag line is self-deprecatingly 'the bar has been lowered', but this is the highest standard of drama I've seen in this country.
  2. The Walking Dead - we arrived late to this series, which surprises me as I have a thing for Andrew Lincoln (since seeing him in Teachers) but it has been worth the wait, even if he's not nearly as sexy with an American accent. I have bought the DVD box-set and we are half-way through Series Two. I love the emotional relationship between characters in extremes; Him Outdoors lies on the sofa calling for 'more zombies'!
  3. Downton Abbey - Yes, the acting is unsubtle, the dialogue stilted, and the plots like something out of a cheesy day-time soap opera, but it's just so irresistible. And it's got Dame Maggie Smith.
  4. Line of Duty - I stumbled across this by accident and have been hooked ever since. No one does bleak corrupt cop drama like the British.
  5. The Dr Blake Mysteries - Craig McLachlan plays a police surgeon in Ballarat in the late 50s/early 60s - in Australian geographic terms, it's not far from Ramsay Street, but in acting ability and plot development it's a fairly long leap.
Line of Duty: It's just good

Count down quotes to 'Twelfth Night': Opening Night!

"O, 'twill be admirable"
"Sport royal, I warrant you." 
- Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Maria, II, iii

Thursday 27 March 2014

Count down quotes to 'Twelfth Night': 7

 "Oh what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip" - Olivia, III, i

Wednesday 26 March 2014

Count down quote to 'Twelfth Night': 6


"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." - Malvolio (via Maria), II, v

Tuesday 25 March 2014

Count down quotes to 'Twelfth Night': 5


"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction." - Fabian, III, iv

Monday 24 March 2014

Sunday 23 March 2014

Count down quotes to 'Twelfth Night': 3

The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez
"If I do not gull him into a nayword and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed." - Maria, II, iii