Hester L-J

Diet of Worms🙄

it's a beautiful column and those are wonderful photos. I'm very. sorry about Cinnamon... (I have one of those intelligent and emotionally-intelligent cats too.)

😍so lovely!

it's wonderful... there aren't that many pictures so when I can use one I love it!

A photograph of a play in performance: on a white floor, a young man with dark hair is lying as if pinned to the ground by the young woman who's partly lying on top of him. She wears white shoes, a long white dress with a split up the side, long sleeves, and pink and orange splodges on the top and sleeves, and she has long straight dark hair; he wears white trousers, bare feet, and a blue shirt that looks as if it's patterned with clouds.

Helena: I can't HELP it! #MoonMad
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I've been looking forward to posting this wonderful image of two LEGENDS, in the 1970 Peter Brook Dream @the-rsc.bsky.social: Helena (Frances de la Tour), Demetrius (Ben Kingsley) & a lovely view of Sally Jacobs's costumes.

enjoying the disambiguation there

A photograph of a character in a play. 3/4 length, a young man wearing white jeans, with a short-sleeved v-necked dark jumper over a pale polo shirt. His hands are in his pockets and he looks cross and a bit sinister. He's standing in front of a wooden pillar with candles attached to it.

Demetrius: go AWAY! I HATE you this is STUPID where is HERMIA? #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Lou Jackson as a particularly sulky, sinister Demetrius in the Headlong Dream, dir. Holly Race Roughan, which played in the Wanamaker winter 2025-6

it's because Jackie Tasioulas is going to be principal of Newnham, nothing more exotic or sinister!!

YESSSSS this although I did query whether they actually needed 2 copies of the book and they graciously said, no, one would be fine😬

A frame from a cartoon. There's a night sky with yellow stars in the background, and it's framed on all sides by dark green leaves. In the middle is a man wearing sort of Elizabethan dress, in green and yellow; his boots and sleeves and front are also made out of green leaves, and he has spiky green hair and beard.

Oberon: I have a DASTARDLY PLAN and also will now GO INVISIBLE to do some eavesdropping #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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In the 1992 Animated Tales Dream, Oberon (voiced by Daniel Massey) could actually become invisible, melding with the trees; a rather lovely effect.

that I did not even think of, I was just feeling hungry...

solidarity. I don't live with BRCA1/2 but I did do the testing and well remember the anxiety (which still pops up, more generally, 15 years on). Hope you get more support and better information soon. Also: CARBS.

Wellcome!

I love that they look like little workmen in overalls, for whom a plan has started to go wrong... Very right said Fred.

A black and white photograph of a character in a a play. Head and shoulders, a man looking up to his right and grinning. He's wearing a body suit covered with small pieces of cloth fringed to look like round feathers, and he has a headdress and makeup that makes him look like an owl, with tufty ears.

Oberon has a PLAN (magic flower!) so Puck has a MISSION (supersonic flight!) #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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A lovely owlish Puck: David O'Brien @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 1954, dir. George Devine, des. Motley🌟 (Elizabeth Montgomery, Percy Harris, Sophia Harris)

happy to help...

*snorts with laughter*

A photograph of a character in a film. Head and shoulders, a young man with chiselled features; some drapery is visible on his left shoulder but his right is bare, and he has gold tiara-like spikes in his hair. He's standing against an ornate stone background.

The same man lying on his arms on the ground, as if in a forest, looking sulky and intense.

Oberon: I saw Cupid loose his arrow! but he missed.... 🏹 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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It's Monday morning in a never-ending February so please enjoy Rupert Everett as Oberon in the 1999 film of Dream, dir. Michael Hoffmann.

🥰alas tonight I have to read the OT lesson

FILTH. I guess I can have an apple... (Wonderful as ever, and the plate...)

A frame from a cartoon of Midsummer Night's Dream. On the left a figure with a round yellow face, with purple hair, wearing a pink, purple, and green outfit that is sort of Elizabethan, with breeches etc. His hat is pink with a feather. He's sitting next to a larger figure with a green face and dark green spiky hair and beard, also wearing a green and yellow Elizabethan outfit, which seems partly made out of leaves. The background is a dark forest.

Oberon: REVENGE! Do you remember hearing that mermaid? #MoonMad
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There are many cool, interesting things about the Animated Tales Dream (1992) but Puck (L), who tips over from psychedelic to hallucinogenic, not in a good way, is not one of them. Here with Oberon.

trefoils to reflect the motto??

I missed this! 'Atmospheric' is brilliantly non-committal...

the text of the painted panels on the ceiling is by the poet John Lydgate (he was a monk at Bury). (A wonderful place! the rest of the church is brilliant too!)

A still from a TV film. Dimly lit from the left, a woman with long blonde hair, wearing a thin draped white dress and crystal necklace, is holding a toddler in her arms. There are other children clustered around her.

A wider shot of the woman in the same TV film. She's speaking to someone out of shot and up to the left, with the children huddling close; they're standing in what looks like a woodland grove, at night.

Titania: I promised his mum I'd look after her little boy! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Helen Mirren as Titania in the 1981 BBC Shakespeare Dream, dir. Elijah Moshinsky. Her fairies were all children; film allowed the changeling boy to be a real, sleepy toddler.

my students were imagining family dinners so provided🫣

I was being joyously imprecise... (The catalogue has it as a sauce boat, I think....)

A photograph of a play in performance: dimly lit, a woman wearing a fantastical ballet-style long dress, with a blue and purple skirt and a heavily beaded bodice. A man wearing a long glittering coat has his back to the camera.

The same couple in a long shot, dimly lit.

The same couple, side by side; her bodice is covered with diamanté and sparkle, and he is wearing more cloth of gold under his glittering coat.

Titania: this is my friend's little boy, I can't give him up! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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A beautiful C19 Dream @the-rsc.bsky.social 1981, dir. Ron Daniels des. Maria Björnson: Juliet Stevenson as a dark fairytale Titania, Mike Gwilym as Oberon.

medieval stained glass depicting God as an architect creating the world, with a big pair of dividers.

does it have to be wall painting? C14 window from Malvern Priory?

oh that is VERY hee! celebrate!