#gielgud

[galina]

Leaning deeply into wintriness, wrapping up in a bundle, smooshing down into the seat, holding hands, the whole romance of it

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photograph of Gielgud by Howard Coster

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..."I'm now at an age where I hear a song from the past~~from a good or a bad time~~and I become an emotional wreck. I am back in the time~~good or bad~~and I now have the perspective to understand what really happened, what things really meant. A dog runs to me and offers me affection and I am both overwhelmed and satisfied. A kind word at the market comes my way, and I think of crying. I think I may be grown up now. I think I understand things~~their worth and their meaning. Old age isn't entirely bad."

~ John Gielgud/Interview with James Grissom/1991

[Follies Of God]

[b99reblogstuff]

Stephanie Beatriz In 2:22 A Ghost Story

[thestudyofdrama]

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

John Gielgud

[nexus-1314]

((So this is a geik ref sheet (Name: Gielgud, Nicknames: GG, Gigu) I made and I think it's supposed to be a jojo geik (this is not a joke it's the real thing) and the reason I made this I because I am a lover of JJBA:SDC. I think @ecstaticshli will like this.

[shakespearenews]

Is a black actor capable of playing Hamlet? That was a raging question in DC in 1951

[Editor’s note] In 2018, when Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s Hamlet, set in West Africa and directed by Simon Godwin, arrived at the Kennedy Center, Paapa Essiedu played the title role to unanimous praise. According to Lee Seymour of Forbes, it was the first time the RSC had cast a black actor in the role, considered one of …

“Dodson and Hyman reached out to Sir John Gielgud when the British actor was on tour in Washington.  Discovering that the city’s Jim Crow segregation prevented him from dining at his hotel with Dodson and Hyman, Gielgud joined them at the Greyhound Bus Station lunch counter.  He spent a day working with the Howard Players, and continued to coach Hyman from afar.“ 

[shakespearenews]

John Gielgud recites Prospero. 

[shakespearenews]

John Gielgud reciting Prospero