Prince of Cats

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[imagelvr]

surgical paintings by @buscemibitch

[pmamtraveller]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[requiem-on-water]

by Klara Kulikova

[ahcult-deactivated20240909]

Salome, Royal Opera House

Covet Garden, London

[marcuscrassus]

Johann Michael Rottmayr - The Suicide of Cato

[sharpenededges]

[doctors-hearts]

There better be some blood on J.K. Rowling's handprints in Edinburgh soon.

[endiness]

NCUTI GATWA in The Importance of Being Earnest

[endiness]

NCUTI GATWA in The Importance of Being Earnest

[greypencil-deactivated20260413]

At the gay club at 4 am

[lesbian-thesbian]

eponine memes (part 2)

📷 @medium-observation

[gnossienne]

King Lear performed in the fire-damaged ruins of Teatro Municipal de Lima (c. 1999), conceived by architect Luis de Longhi

[donjuaninsoho]

Good luck to the MACBETH company for press night tonight! Production photos taken by Marc Brenner

[crowlixcx]

All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!

MACBETH at The Donmar Warehouse (x)

[florencewelchsgrapejuice-deacti]

shakespeare has always been queer

promotion poster for twelfth night at the delacorte theater, 2009 // still a rose (2015) // as you like it at the globe theatre, 2018 // @visit-ba-sing-se // @lieutenant-sapphic // a midsummer night’s dream at the bridge theatre, 2019 // twelfth night at the globe theatre, 2013 // @ambarsariyaaa // coriolanus at the donmar warehouse, 2013 // hamlet at the globe theatre, 2018 // @horatiohshit and @the-mad-prince-of-denmark // a midsummer night’s dream at the globe theatre, 2013 // @harrison-osterfield-appreciation // romeo + juliet (1996)

[its-ate-oclock-somewhere]

romeo & juliet, act ii, scene vi

[not-so-rosyyy]

no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.

[athelind]

When he asked for "a random sonnet or something," my brain immediately reminded me of the ONE Shakespeare sonnet I memorized back in the late '70s, when kids could get into the local Renaissance Fair by reciting a sonnet from memory. It's still up there, laser-engraved in my synapses, and probably will be for the rest of my life.

I almost fell out of my chair when Dame Judi started reciting that exact same sonnet.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Somehow, as soon as I read @athelind's comment, I knew she was going to be reciting Sonnet 29; it too, has long been one of my favorites (I think I memorized it for no other reason than personal pleasure).

There's another sonnet of Shakespeare's, that's also about what we now call "Clinical depression" (which Sonnet 29 is certainly about: "With what I most enjoy, contented least") -- Sonnet 66.

And it ends with the same idea: that the reason to keep going, in spite of the depression, and the crap state of the world, is the people we love, and the people who love us.

And, yeah. Given everything going on in the world, right now, remembering that there are people who love us can leave us bawling, in a good way.

[athelind]

It remains my favorite, too, despite my mercenary reasons for first memorizing it; the reason I still remember it is because I've recited it on multiple occasions since then, just because I love the theme.

[differentcatcat]

That Sir Lawrence Olivier bunch were (and are) an entertaining bunch. I love Dame Judi and that very sonnet.