tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-22:115145sir_guinglainsir_guinglainsir_guinglain2016-08-09T15:29:42Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-22:115145:847091Tyneside humour2016-08-09T15:29:42Z2016-08-09T15:29:42Zpublic2"Mind Dickie teks things varry literal. He's watchin' Ted Heath mekkin a speech at the Convarsative Conference when it was on the telly. "We must, we must" sez Ted "Wage war against poverty". So Dick gans strite oot and shoots a tramp."<br /> ---Dick Irwin and Scott Dobson, <i>Geordie Laffs</i> (Newcastle: Frank Graham, 1970) p. 9<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sir_guinglain&ditemid=847091" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-22:115145:464288A Walk On Part2011-11-16T02:20:43Z2011-11-16T02:20:43Zpublic0It's just like old times - I'm writing in the middle of the night. This is because I'm only fairly recently back from London after a family-and-friends trip to see <a href="http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/walk-on-part/"><i>A Walk On Part</i></a> at the Soho Theatre Downstairs, adapted from the diaries of Chris Mullin, MP for Sunderland South 1983-2010, by Michael Chaplin. I was told by one who has read the diaries that Chaplin's drastic abridgement successfully represented content and flavour. I thought the performances tended towards over-caricature at first, but they settled down, with John Hodgkinson displaying great skill in his portrayal of Mullin, effectively a two-hour monologue with interjections from the other four cast members, who shared ninety-six parts between them, from the prime minister of Ethiopia and a Northumberland landowner to a Ukrainian refugee schoolboy and a Sunderland newsagent, via Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and other players of the New Labour era.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sir_guinglain&ditemid=464288" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments