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Post by lovemondays on Nov 19, 2014 4:54:32 GMT
I went to a show tonight at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. You may recognize it's exterior:
It has served as the Grand Theatre in Body Double and as the exterior of the Opera house in Murdoch at the Opera.
I was watching a marvelous play called Arcadia, written by Tom Stoppard in 1993. It's a story that takes place a grand home in Derbyshire in both 1810 and the present, moving back and forth through time as it explores more themes than spots on a dalmatian. (I kept thinking that Snacky would absolutely love this show.) To my great surprise, the lady of the manor is played by none other than Nicole Underhay, one of our Fab Four, Margaret Haile. Talk about a busy lady...I saw her in Brantford last week filming episode 817! I was very impressed with her work and I was laughing to myself that the poor woman can't get herself out of period costumes!
Also in the cast is Martin Happer who played Const. Cooper in The Great Wall.
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Post by snacky on Nov 19, 2014 7:40:11 GMT
I went to a show tonight at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. You may recognize it's exterior:
It has served as the Grand Theatre in Body Double and as the exterior of the Opera house in Murdoch at the Opera.
I was watching a marvelous play called Arcadia, written by Tom Stoppard in 1993. It's a story that takes place a grand home in Derbyshire in both 1810 and the present, moving back and forth through time as it explores more themes than spots on a dalmatian. (I kept thinking that Snacky would absolutely love this show.) To my great surprise, the lady of the manor is played by none other than Nicole Underhay, one of our Fab Four, Margaret Haile. Talk about a busy lady...I saw her in Brantford last week filming episode 817! I was very impressed with her work and I was laughing to myself that the poor woman can't get herself out of period costumes!
I just read the summary in Wikipedia - I would absolutely love that play! I hope this forum and your math background helped you keep up with all those themes!  Stoppard's Utopia trilogy recently played at a theater just blocks from my place. I was dying for tickets, but I couldn't afford them, and I was unsuccessful at begging them. Glad to see Toronto is preserving these old buildings! |
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Post by lovemondays on Nov 19, 2014 14:23:20 GMT
I went to a show tonight at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. You may recognize it's exterior:
</div>I will admit that some of the specific references went over my head but I kept up. Fortunately I have a love of gardening so I am quite familiar with the influence of Cabability Brown on the English countryside and how those references tied all the themes together. Arcadia has the power to make me want to learn new things...much as this forum does! |
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Post by snacky on Nov 19, 2014 17:37:54 GMT
</div>I will admit that some of the specific references went over my head but I kept up. Fortunately I have a love of gardening so I am quite familiar with the influence of Cabability Brown on the English countryside and how those references tied all the themes together. Arcadia has the power to make me want to learn new things...much as this forum does! The girl mathematician was based on Ada Lovelace, you can never learn too much about her! |
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on Nov 19, 2014 20:04:34 GMT
I'm very immature. I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different.  |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Nov 19, 2014 20:26:08 GMT
I'm very immature. I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different. That may have been my first thought as well. |
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Post by snacky on Nov 19, 2014 20:31:30 GMT
I'm very immature. I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different. That may have been my first thought as well. With Drowning in Chocolate? |
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on Nov 19, 2014 23:55:45 GMT
I'm very immature. I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different. That may have been my first thought as well. This was my first thought. |
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Post by snacky on Nov 20, 2014 0:09:53 GMT
That may have been my first thought as well. This was my first thought. don't make me rick roll you
btw I found Sarah Gadon (Ruby) in a movie about Jung breaking away from Freud! www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=tt_rec_ttWhile Julia would have had to have been trained in Freud and possibly some sketchy "neurophysiological" science, Jung is much more conducive to MM, and I keep hoping he will come up... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dangerous_MethodI read Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams, and Reflections as an undergrad - it seems like your average throwdown between fussy academics until Jung claims to be able to break tables with mind....yep, that happened! |
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on Nov 20, 2014 1:09:50 GMT
This was my first thought. don't make me rick roll you
btw I found Sarah Gadon (Ruby) in a movie about Jung breaking away from Freud! www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=tt_rec_ttWhile Julia would have had to have been trained in Freud and possibly some sketchy "neurophysiological" science, Jung is much more conducive to MM, and I keep hoping he will come up... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dangerous_MethodI read Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams, and Reflections as an undergrad - it seems like your average throwdown between fussy academics until Jung claims to be able to break tables with mind....yep, that happened! not afraid, rick rolling hasn't been a thing since 2005...
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Post by lovemondays on Nov 20, 2014 5:46:41 GMT
</div>I will admit that some of the specific references went over my head but I kept up. Fortunately I have a love of gardening so I am quite familiar with the influence of Cabability Brown on the English countryside and how those references tied all the themes together. Arcadia has the power to make me want to learn new things...much as this forum does! The girl mathematician was based on Ada Lovelace, you can never learn too much about her! I am completely freaking out. Ada was Lord Byron's daughter and only legitimate child. (Lord Byron figures prominently in the play)! She was a genius mathemetitian who worked on Charles Babbage's analytical engine (does that sound familiar to anyone?) In that respect she "was the first modern computer". My biggest issue is that Ada was born in 1815. Ada's character, Thomasina would have been born in 1797 and her 13 year old self was very present at the beginning of the play. Her fate is only referred to, in the present, as one who died just as she turned 17, so 1814.. I will suspend disbelief because Thomasina, as a character, was so well developed, that it was clear that she was the only one who grasped the magnitude of her mathematical discovery. |
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Post by snacky on Nov 20, 2014 5:56:12 GMT
not afraid, rick rolling hasn't been a thing since 2005...
You asked for it |
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on Nov 20, 2014 6:00:13 GMT
not afraid, rick rolling hasn't been a thing since 2005...
You asked for it You're not supposed to TELL me when you're doing it. FAIL!  |
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Post by snacky on Nov 20, 2014 6:01:57 GMT
You're not supposed to TELL me when you're doing it. FAIL! You are referring to the classic rick roll. You were daring me to scare you with a video. That was scary, was it not? |
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on Nov 20, 2014 6:05:17 GMT
You're not supposed to TELL me when you're doing it. FAIL! You are referring to the classic rick roll. You were daring me to scare you with a video. That was scary, was it not? I didn't actually watch it. |
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