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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:09:58 GMT
Wish ah had the confidence to go pro wi the horses les.
Ma workplace is full oh folk that talk doon tae ye even when they are no meanin tae dae it.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:13:50 GMT
Think this lassie is a wee bit cheeky...plenty oh character aboot her m8.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:23:11 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:28:57 GMT
Bring on King William.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:48:39 GMT
Black Watch
Theatre Review by Mark Brown, June 2008
Director: John Tiffany; Barbican, London; 20 to 26 June
The National Theatre of Scotland's Iraq War drama Black Watch is moving to the Barbican. It has been garlanded with awards since it opened at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2006. There are a variety of reasons why the play, which was written by Gregory Burke and directed by John Tiffany, has become such a hit.
The first is Burke's script, based upon interviews conducted with former soldiers from the famous Scottish regiment of the British army, the Black Watch. Burke is himself working class from Fife (in the heart of the Black Watch's recruitment area), and he captures brilliantly the speech and attitudes of rank and file soldiers, complete with the raucous humour and often dubious "canteen culture" with which they mask their distress over their tours of duty in Iraq. The script humanises the conflict in a way that much journalism from Iraq fails to do. It carries the mark of authenticity.
Excellent though Burke's writing is, the acclaim for Black Watch rests at least as much on Tiffany's directing. The director has created a number of visual set pieces (such as the transformation of a scene from a Scottish pub to the Iraqi battle zone, and the immediate aftermath of a suicide bomb attack) which are among the most memorable single moments I have ever encountered in the theatre.
Black Watch reflects many of the former soldiers' misgivings about the occupation of Iraq; that, indeed, is part of the play's popular appeal. Where the piece is more problematic, however, is in its reflections on the history of the Black Watch regiment.
At various points in the play, support appears to be given to the notion of a proud "golden thread" in the regiment's past. By Burke's own admission, elements of the script which reflected on the Black Watch's blood red thread of colonial savagery, in countries such as Kenya and Palestine, were cut from the text.
As it now stands, Black Watch is a deeply impressive, and, in this re-cast tour, fabulously acted piece of theatre. Politically, although critical of the Iraq disaster, it makes needless concessions to the brutal imperial history of the Scottish regiment which gives the play its name.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 22:55:50 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 23:03:15 GMT
By fk its great ti be Pictish & Scots.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 23:04:38 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 22, 2010 23:50:35 GMT
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Post by Les on Dec 23, 2010 7:52:43 GMT
severe weather warning in Edinburgh wattie,so canceled and its auld glesga .Fraser's,princess square,and Buchanan st  o well there,s disruption on the Edinburgh/Glasgow line so its the xxxxhole that is Cumbernauld for our big day out f#@kin canny get any worse can it lol |
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 9:31:05 GMT
Och ye might still enjoy yerselves les.
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Post by BC on Dec 23, 2010 13:14:59 GMT
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 14:39:58 GMT
Now here's a guy with a sense of humour
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 14:44:46 GMT
Talk about keeping it in the family!
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 14:55:48 GMT
Just a little clip from the 90th birthday celebrations of a man who in his younger days was continually denied his civil rights in the USA.
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 15:06:18 GMT
Of course, songs like this did not endear him to the powers that be.
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 15:10:14 GMT
Of course, it was an age of protest
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 15:20:19 GMT
Don't forget that it was only with the utmost difficulty that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came into law.
Sadly, suffering from manic depression and alcoholism, Ochs took his own life in 1976 at the tender age of 35.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 15:43:16 GMT
Dont know why people bother to do away with themselves OT?
We will aw be deed soon enough.
On that cheery note.
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 16:44:32 GMT
Sorry for the delay, but I got interrupted by a few files coming through from work!
Arlo's father of course
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 16:52:52 GMT
Fathers & daughters
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 16:56:59 GMT
One of my all-time favourite songs, and decent quality video for once!
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 17:03:30 GMT
Not just a voice but a musician too
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 23, 2010 17:09:35 GMT
And yet more Willie
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 18:05:41 GMT
Really enjoyed those last Two Willie Nelson tracks OT cheers m8.
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 18:18:33 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 18:24:55 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 18:43:08 GMT
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Post by Walter Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2010 20:28:54 GMT
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Post by Old Timer on Dec 24, 2010 13:10:41 GMT
Still on a Willie kick I'm afraid!
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2009 Spacedout's Tipping Challenge Winner 11,449.71 pts profit.... 10 months played. 
o well
