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Can itreally
be 983092983088983088years
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A Shakespeare SpecialStarring Joan Bakewell
Samantha Bond Tim KeyOscar Quine andThea Lenarduzzi
Plus Grace Dent onher mother the
internet refusenik
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Te Front Pages
Meet my mother the internetrefusenik And donrsquot tell me
shersquos got things wrong
THE PRIME OF LIFE
6pm to ri1047298e through the Whoops reduc-
tions on fresh cream cakes Then thereare her weeks in Blackpool playing
dodge-the-mobility-scooter which shebooks from the back of the local paperNo lastminutecom for my mother
So therersquos no point in me littering
social media on Mothering Sunday withphotos of her cuddling me as a podgytwo-year-old as is the modern way
Motherrsquos Day on Instagram is a newfeast day for the gushingly sentimental
and showy A certain oneupmanshipsets in by around 11am You thought I was great people seem to be saying butwait herersquos my mother Itrsquos remarkable
how many peoplersquos mothers ndash accord-ing to Instagram ndash were a heady mix
of Germaine Greer Mother Theresaand Delia Smith or at the very least the
local answer to Brigitte Bardot I save myenergies and my battery life My mother
wouldnrsquot see the photos anywayAnd even if Margaret at No 22 ndash who
has a Dell laptop in order to Skype her
kids in Australia ndash showed my mother myInstagram love-fest she would merely
wonder why Irsquod put a photo of me andher at the 1975 Farnborough Airshow
on to the World Wide Web for any oldweirdo to gawp at Face it if you want to
make women like my mother happy onMotherrsquos Day forget the internet You
get on a train You leave your phone andyour laptop behind You show up and eat
fruit scones with her in person Itrsquos likea text message but better
As my life has gone fully digital andIrsquove become welded to 4G and superfast
wi-1047297 my motherrsquos demands have startedto seem thoroughly unreasonable Shewants me to ring her on a landline at a
prearranged time and spend 45 minuteschatting What ndash on my blistering impor-
tant schedule She wants me to schlepto a Clintons and 1047297nd an actual birthday
card with a ldquonice verserdquo in it and thenwrite inside the card ndash with a pen ndash and
then 1047297nd a stamp and a postbox Whatare we Amish
She wants me to either ldquobe at workrdquo orldquonot be at workrdquo and she doesnrsquot want
me to be in a permanent hinterlandreplying to Twitter direct messages at
quarter past midnight and again at 715in the morning She wants me to see the
whites of my brothersrsquo eyes and not justtheir updates on Facebook She is un-swerving in these opinions She is the
last standing guard of internet refuseniksShe annoys me but I love her And a quiet
voice in my soul knows that shersquos rightand that our real-life time is precious I
should send her a text and tell her this IfIrsquom lucky she might read it by June microgracedent
My mother has never used the
internet Not once Not ever Sheis not available on Facebook Twitter or
Instagram You cannot drop her a quicktext You can try but the mobile phone
that we ndash her children ndash thrust upon herto use in case of emergency lives in the
glove compartment of her Volvo next toa Daniel OrsquoDonnell CD its battery tepid
She has a BT landline with no answermachine and she moans that Irsquom never
in touch It makes me incandescentldquoYou are 79 years oldrdquo I shouted at her
the other week ldquoYoursquore out in your car
every day and yoursquore only just over yourcataract operation Do you not think I
worryrdquo It is part of the cycle of life thatone day you will 1047297nd yourself haranguing
your OAP parents in exactly the samevoice with which they once harangued
you to remember your PE kitldquoIf you donrsquot switch on the phone
how can I keep track of where you arerdquo Ishouted ldquoWell Irsquom either here or Irsquom in
Morrisonsrdquo she said pausing to thinkldquoOr Irsquom down Aztec Soft Play with our
Lola Or Irsquom in Blackpoolrdquo She foldedher arms to indicate her interest in the
discussion ending ldquoWhat morerdquo shesaid ldquodo you need to knowrdquo And at thispoint I gave up my lecture on safety
security and the innate usefulness ofmodern social media
But why would anyone she said wantto carry on like this in public She spoke
with some experience of public embar-rassment In 1957 she was photographed
screaming outside a Frankie Vaughan
concert and the picture was published
in the Cumberland News without herconsent My mother remains to this
day completely livid about itMy motherrsquos off-line presence puts
something of a distance between usShe comes from a time before Facebook
check-ins and Twitter geo-tags Shehas never known the glory of 386 new
updates glowing on her WhatsApp iconShersquos never hate-followed a frenemy on
Instagram just for the sadistic drip-dripthrill Shersquos never ghosted a friend whois past their sell-by date Shersquos never
trolled then regretted trolling She doesnot suffer power-noia or Tumblr-related
FOMO She is perfectly equipped brain-wise to enter the 21st century but shersquos
had a think and shersquos not that fussedBesides venturing forth would get
in the way of her punishing schedule ofwatching episodes of Homes Under the Hammer followed by a trip to Asda at
Grace Dent
I L L U S T R A T I O N B
Y P I N G Z
H U
partpartShe has never
known the glory of 386new updates
glowing on her
WhatsAppicon
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983095
Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
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Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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pound14 down from pound18Marks amp Spencer
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pound1649 ndash 1775 TheDrink Shop AG Wines
DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Te Front Pages
Meet my mother the internetrefusenik And donrsquot tell me
shersquos got things wrong
THE PRIME OF LIFE
6pm to ri1047298e through the Whoops reduc-
tions on fresh cream cakes Then thereare her weeks in Blackpool playing
dodge-the-mobility-scooter which shebooks from the back of the local paperNo lastminutecom for my mother
So therersquos no point in me littering
social media on Mothering Sunday withphotos of her cuddling me as a podgytwo-year-old as is the modern way
Motherrsquos Day on Instagram is a newfeast day for the gushingly sentimental
and showy A certain oneupmanshipsets in by around 11am You thought I was great people seem to be saying butwait herersquos my mother Itrsquos remarkable
how many peoplersquos mothers ndash accord-ing to Instagram ndash were a heady mix
of Germaine Greer Mother Theresaand Delia Smith or at the very least the
local answer to Brigitte Bardot I save myenergies and my battery life My mother
wouldnrsquot see the photos anywayAnd even if Margaret at No 22 ndash who
has a Dell laptop in order to Skype her
kids in Australia ndash showed my mother myInstagram love-fest she would merely
wonder why Irsquod put a photo of me andher at the 1975 Farnborough Airshow
on to the World Wide Web for any oldweirdo to gawp at Face it if you want to
make women like my mother happy onMotherrsquos Day forget the internet You
get on a train You leave your phone andyour laptop behind You show up and eat
fruit scones with her in person Itrsquos likea text message but better
As my life has gone fully digital andIrsquove become welded to 4G and superfast
wi-1047297 my motherrsquos demands have startedto seem thoroughly unreasonable Shewants me to ring her on a landline at a
prearranged time and spend 45 minuteschatting What ndash on my blistering impor-
tant schedule She wants me to schlepto a Clintons and 1047297nd an actual birthday
card with a ldquonice verserdquo in it and thenwrite inside the card ndash with a pen ndash and
then 1047297nd a stamp and a postbox Whatare we Amish
She wants me to either ldquobe at workrdquo orldquonot be at workrdquo and she doesnrsquot want
me to be in a permanent hinterlandreplying to Twitter direct messages at
quarter past midnight and again at 715in the morning She wants me to see the
whites of my brothersrsquo eyes and not justtheir updates on Facebook She is un-swerving in these opinions She is the
last standing guard of internet refuseniksShe annoys me but I love her And a quiet
voice in my soul knows that shersquos rightand that our real-life time is precious I
should send her a text and tell her this IfIrsquom lucky she might read it by June microgracedent
My mother has never used the
internet Not once Not ever Sheis not available on Facebook Twitter or
Instagram You cannot drop her a quicktext You can try but the mobile phone
that we ndash her children ndash thrust upon herto use in case of emergency lives in the
glove compartment of her Volvo next toa Daniel OrsquoDonnell CD its battery tepid
She has a BT landline with no answermachine and she moans that Irsquom never
in touch It makes me incandescentldquoYou are 79 years oldrdquo I shouted at her
the other week ldquoYoursquore out in your car
every day and yoursquore only just over yourcataract operation Do you not think I
worryrdquo It is part of the cycle of life thatone day you will 1047297nd yourself haranguing
your OAP parents in exactly the samevoice with which they once harangued
you to remember your PE kitldquoIf you donrsquot switch on the phone
how can I keep track of where you arerdquo Ishouted ldquoWell Irsquom either here or Irsquom in
Morrisonsrdquo she said pausing to thinkldquoOr Irsquom down Aztec Soft Play with our
Lola Or Irsquom in Blackpoolrdquo She foldedher arms to indicate her interest in the
discussion ending ldquoWhat morerdquo shesaid ldquodo you need to knowrdquo And at thispoint I gave up my lecture on safety
security and the innate usefulness ofmodern social media
But why would anyone she said wantto carry on like this in public She spoke
with some experience of public embar-rassment In 1957 she was photographed
screaming outside a Frankie Vaughan
concert and the picture was published
in the Cumberland News without herconsent My mother remains to this
day completely livid about itMy motherrsquos off-line presence puts
something of a distance between usShe comes from a time before Facebook
check-ins and Twitter geo-tags Shehas never known the glory of 386 new
updates glowing on her WhatsApp iconShersquos never hate-followed a frenemy on
Instagram just for the sadistic drip-dripthrill Shersquos never ghosted a friend whois past their sell-by date Shersquos never
trolled then regretted trolling She doesnot suffer power-noia or Tumblr-related
FOMO She is perfectly equipped brain-wise to enter the 21st century but shersquos
had a think and shersquos not that fussedBesides venturing forth would get
in the way of her punishing schedule ofwatching episodes of Homes Under the Hammer followed by a trip to Asda at
Grace Dent
I L L U S T R A T I O N B
Y P I N G Z
H U
partpartShe has never
known the glory of 386new updates
glowing on her
WhatsAppicon
sumsum
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983089
Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983091
My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
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I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
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Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Te Front Pages
Meet my mother the internetrefusenik And donrsquot tell me
shersquos got things wrong
THE PRIME OF LIFE
6pm to ri1047298e through the Whoops reduc-
tions on fresh cream cakes Then thereare her weeks in Blackpool playing
dodge-the-mobility-scooter which shebooks from the back of the local paperNo lastminutecom for my mother
So therersquos no point in me littering
social media on Mothering Sunday withphotos of her cuddling me as a podgytwo-year-old as is the modern way
Motherrsquos Day on Instagram is a newfeast day for the gushingly sentimental
and showy A certain oneupmanshipsets in by around 11am You thought I was great people seem to be saying butwait herersquos my mother Itrsquos remarkable
how many peoplersquos mothers ndash accord-ing to Instagram ndash were a heady mix
of Germaine Greer Mother Theresaand Delia Smith or at the very least the
local answer to Brigitte Bardot I save myenergies and my battery life My mother
wouldnrsquot see the photos anywayAnd even if Margaret at No 22 ndash who
has a Dell laptop in order to Skype her
kids in Australia ndash showed my mother myInstagram love-fest she would merely
wonder why Irsquod put a photo of me andher at the 1975 Farnborough Airshow
on to the World Wide Web for any oldweirdo to gawp at Face it if you want to
make women like my mother happy onMotherrsquos Day forget the internet You
get on a train You leave your phone andyour laptop behind You show up and eat
fruit scones with her in person Itrsquos likea text message but better
As my life has gone fully digital andIrsquove become welded to 4G and superfast
wi-1047297 my motherrsquos demands have startedto seem thoroughly unreasonable Shewants me to ring her on a landline at a
prearranged time and spend 45 minuteschatting What ndash on my blistering impor-
tant schedule She wants me to schlepto a Clintons and 1047297nd an actual birthday
card with a ldquonice verserdquo in it and thenwrite inside the card ndash with a pen ndash and
then 1047297nd a stamp and a postbox Whatare we Amish
She wants me to either ldquobe at workrdquo orldquonot be at workrdquo and she doesnrsquot want
me to be in a permanent hinterlandreplying to Twitter direct messages at
quarter past midnight and again at 715in the morning She wants me to see the
whites of my brothersrsquo eyes and not justtheir updates on Facebook She is un-swerving in these opinions She is the
last standing guard of internet refuseniksShe annoys me but I love her And a quiet
voice in my soul knows that shersquos rightand that our real-life time is precious I
should send her a text and tell her this IfIrsquom lucky she might read it by June microgracedent
My mother has never used the
internet Not once Not ever Sheis not available on Facebook Twitter or
Instagram You cannot drop her a quicktext You can try but the mobile phone
that we ndash her children ndash thrust upon herto use in case of emergency lives in the
glove compartment of her Volvo next toa Daniel OrsquoDonnell CD its battery tepid
She has a BT landline with no answermachine and she moans that Irsquom never
in touch It makes me incandescentldquoYou are 79 years oldrdquo I shouted at her
the other week ldquoYoursquore out in your car
every day and yoursquore only just over yourcataract operation Do you not think I
worryrdquo It is part of the cycle of life thatone day you will 1047297nd yourself haranguing
your OAP parents in exactly the samevoice with which they once harangued
you to remember your PE kitldquoIf you donrsquot switch on the phone
how can I keep track of where you arerdquo Ishouted ldquoWell Irsquom either here or Irsquom in
Morrisonsrdquo she said pausing to thinkldquoOr Irsquom down Aztec Soft Play with our
Lola Or Irsquom in Blackpoolrdquo She foldedher arms to indicate her interest in the
discussion ending ldquoWhat morerdquo shesaid ldquodo you need to knowrdquo And at thispoint I gave up my lecture on safety
security and the innate usefulness ofmodern social media
But why would anyone she said wantto carry on like this in public She spoke
with some experience of public embar-rassment In 1957 she was photographed
screaming outside a Frankie Vaughan
concert and the picture was published
in the Cumberland News without herconsent My mother remains to this
day completely livid about itMy motherrsquos off-line presence puts
something of a distance between usShe comes from a time before Facebook
check-ins and Twitter geo-tags Shehas never known the glory of 386 new
updates glowing on her WhatsApp iconShersquos never hate-followed a frenemy on
Instagram just for the sadistic drip-dripthrill Shersquos never ghosted a friend whois past their sell-by date Shersquos never
trolled then regretted trolling She doesnot suffer power-noia or Tumblr-related
FOMO She is perfectly equipped brain-wise to enter the 21st century but shersquos
had a think and shersquos not that fussedBesides venturing forth would get
in the way of her punishing schedule ofwatching episodes of Homes Under the Hammer followed by a trip to Asda at
Grace Dent
I L L U S T R A T I O N B
Y P I N G Z
H U
partpartShe has never
known the glory of 386new updates
glowing on her
WhatsAppicon
sumsum
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
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Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
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CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983093
Te Front Pages
Meet my mother the internetrefusenik And donrsquot tell me
shersquos got things wrong
THE PRIME OF LIFE
6pm to ri1047298e through the Whoops reduc-
tions on fresh cream cakes Then thereare her weeks in Blackpool playing
dodge-the-mobility-scooter which shebooks from the back of the local paperNo lastminutecom for my mother
So therersquos no point in me littering
social media on Mothering Sunday withphotos of her cuddling me as a podgytwo-year-old as is the modern way
Motherrsquos Day on Instagram is a newfeast day for the gushingly sentimental
and showy A certain oneupmanshipsets in by around 11am You thought I was great people seem to be saying butwait herersquos my mother Itrsquos remarkable
how many peoplersquos mothers ndash accord-ing to Instagram ndash were a heady mix
of Germaine Greer Mother Theresaand Delia Smith or at the very least the
local answer to Brigitte Bardot I save myenergies and my battery life My mother
wouldnrsquot see the photos anywayAnd even if Margaret at No 22 ndash who
has a Dell laptop in order to Skype her
kids in Australia ndash showed my mother myInstagram love-fest she would merely
wonder why Irsquod put a photo of me andher at the 1975 Farnborough Airshow
on to the World Wide Web for any oldweirdo to gawp at Face it if you want to
make women like my mother happy onMotherrsquos Day forget the internet You
get on a train You leave your phone andyour laptop behind You show up and eat
fruit scones with her in person Itrsquos likea text message but better
As my life has gone fully digital andIrsquove become welded to 4G and superfast
wi-1047297 my motherrsquos demands have startedto seem thoroughly unreasonable Shewants me to ring her on a landline at a
prearranged time and spend 45 minuteschatting What ndash on my blistering impor-
tant schedule She wants me to schlepto a Clintons and 1047297nd an actual birthday
card with a ldquonice verserdquo in it and thenwrite inside the card ndash with a pen ndash and
then 1047297nd a stamp and a postbox Whatare we Amish
She wants me to either ldquobe at workrdquo orldquonot be at workrdquo and she doesnrsquot want
me to be in a permanent hinterlandreplying to Twitter direct messages at
quarter past midnight and again at 715in the morning She wants me to see the
whites of my brothersrsquo eyes and not justtheir updates on Facebook She is un-swerving in these opinions She is the
last standing guard of internet refuseniksShe annoys me but I love her And a quiet
voice in my soul knows that shersquos rightand that our real-life time is precious I
should send her a text and tell her this IfIrsquom lucky she might read it by June microgracedent
My mother has never used the
internet Not once Not ever Sheis not available on Facebook Twitter or
Instagram You cannot drop her a quicktext You can try but the mobile phone
that we ndash her children ndash thrust upon herto use in case of emergency lives in the
glove compartment of her Volvo next toa Daniel OrsquoDonnell CD its battery tepid
She has a BT landline with no answermachine and she moans that Irsquom never
in touch It makes me incandescentldquoYou are 79 years oldrdquo I shouted at her
the other week ldquoYoursquore out in your car
every day and yoursquore only just over yourcataract operation Do you not think I
worryrdquo It is part of the cycle of life thatone day you will 1047297nd yourself haranguing
your OAP parents in exactly the samevoice with which they once harangued
you to remember your PE kitldquoIf you donrsquot switch on the phone
how can I keep track of where you arerdquo Ishouted ldquoWell Irsquom either here or Irsquom in
Morrisonsrdquo she said pausing to thinkldquoOr Irsquom down Aztec Soft Play with our
Lola Or Irsquom in Blackpoolrdquo She foldedher arms to indicate her interest in the
discussion ending ldquoWhat morerdquo shesaid ldquodo you need to knowrdquo And at thispoint I gave up my lecture on safety
security and the innate usefulness ofmodern social media
But why would anyone she said wantto carry on like this in public She spoke
with some experience of public embar-rassment In 1957 she was photographed
screaming outside a Frankie Vaughan
concert and the picture was published
in the Cumberland News without herconsent My mother remains to this
day completely livid about itMy motherrsquos off-line presence puts
something of a distance between usShe comes from a time before Facebook
check-ins and Twitter geo-tags Shehas never known the glory of 386 new
updates glowing on her WhatsApp iconShersquos never hate-followed a frenemy on
Instagram just for the sadistic drip-dripthrill Shersquos never ghosted a friend whois past their sell-by date Shersquos never
trolled then regretted trolling She doesnot suffer power-noia or Tumblr-related
FOMO She is perfectly equipped brain-wise to enter the 21st century but shersquos
had a think and shersquos not that fussedBesides venturing forth would get
in the way of her punishing schedule ofwatching episodes of Homes Under the Hammer followed by a trip to Asda at
Grace Dent
I L L U S T R A T I O N B
Y P I N G Z
H U
partpartShe has never
known the glory of 386new updates
glowing on her
WhatsAppicon
sumsum
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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983089983088 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983089983089
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
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Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
bull High speed trainfrom Stockholmto Copenhagen
bull Visit to RoskildeDenmarkrsquos rst capital
bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
bull Escorted by anexperienced
tour manager
16 days fromonly pound1969pp
15 days fromonly pound1799pp
Departing from April to October 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Six nights bed andbreakfast in centrallylocated excellent qualityfour-star hotels withdinner on rst evening
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bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
bull Return transfersto your hotel
bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
bull Paris lsquoBy Nightrsquotour experiencingsome of the worldrsquosmost tastefullyilluminated buildings
bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
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bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
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Te Front Pages
Meet my mother the internetrefusenik And donrsquot tell me
shersquos got things wrong
THE PRIME OF LIFE
6pm to ri1047298e through the Whoops reduc-
tions on fresh cream cakes Then thereare her weeks in Blackpool playing
dodge-the-mobility-scooter which shebooks from the back of the local paperNo lastminutecom for my mother
So therersquos no point in me littering
social media on Mothering Sunday withphotos of her cuddling me as a podgytwo-year-old as is the modern way
Motherrsquos Day on Instagram is a newfeast day for the gushingly sentimental
and showy A certain oneupmanshipsets in by around 11am You thought I was great people seem to be saying butwait herersquos my mother Itrsquos remarkable
how many peoplersquos mothers ndash accord-ing to Instagram ndash were a heady mix
of Germaine Greer Mother Theresaand Delia Smith or at the very least the
local answer to Brigitte Bardot I save myenergies and my battery life My mother
wouldnrsquot see the photos anywayAnd even if Margaret at No 22 ndash who
has a Dell laptop in order to Skype her
kids in Australia ndash showed my mother myInstagram love-fest she would merely
wonder why Irsquod put a photo of me andher at the 1975 Farnborough Airshow
on to the World Wide Web for any oldweirdo to gawp at Face it if you want to
make women like my mother happy onMotherrsquos Day forget the internet You
get on a train You leave your phone andyour laptop behind You show up and eat
fruit scones with her in person Itrsquos likea text message but better
As my life has gone fully digital andIrsquove become welded to 4G and superfast
wi-1047297 my motherrsquos demands have startedto seem thoroughly unreasonable Shewants me to ring her on a landline at a
prearranged time and spend 45 minuteschatting What ndash on my blistering impor-
tant schedule She wants me to schlepto a Clintons and 1047297nd an actual birthday
card with a ldquonice verserdquo in it and thenwrite inside the card ndash with a pen ndash and
then 1047297nd a stamp and a postbox Whatare we Amish
She wants me to either ldquobe at workrdquo orldquonot be at workrdquo and she doesnrsquot want
me to be in a permanent hinterlandreplying to Twitter direct messages at
quarter past midnight and again at 715in the morning She wants me to see the
whites of my brothersrsquo eyes and not justtheir updates on Facebook She is un-swerving in these opinions She is the
last standing guard of internet refuseniksShe annoys me but I love her And a quiet
voice in my soul knows that shersquos rightand that our real-life time is precious I
should send her a text and tell her this IfIrsquom lucky she might read it by June microgracedent
My mother has never used the
internet Not once Not ever Sheis not available on Facebook Twitter or
Instagram You cannot drop her a quicktext You can try but the mobile phone
that we ndash her children ndash thrust upon herto use in case of emergency lives in the
glove compartment of her Volvo next toa Daniel OrsquoDonnell CD its battery tepid
She has a BT landline with no answermachine and she moans that Irsquom never
in touch It makes me incandescentldquoYou are 79 years oldrdquo I shouted at her
the other week ldquoYoursquore out in your car
every day and yoursquore only just over yourcataract operation Do you not think I
worryrdquo It is part of the cycle of life thatone day you will 1047297nd yourself haranguing
your OAP parents in exactly the samevoice with which they once harangued
you to remember your PE kitldquoIf you donrsquot switch on the phone
how can I keep track of where you arerdquo Ishouted ldquoWell Irsquom either here or Irsquom in
Morrisonsrdquo she said pausing to thinkldquoOr Irsquom down Aztec Soft Play with our
Lola Or Irsquom in Blackpoolrdquo She foldedher arms to indicate her interest in the
discussion ending ldquoWhat morerdquo shesaid ldquodo you need to knowrdquo And at thispoint I gave up my lecture on safety
security and the innate usefulness ofmodern social media
But why would anyone she said wantto carry on like this in public She spoke
with some experience of public embar-rassment In 1957 she was photographed
screaming outside a Frankie Vaughan
concert and the picture was published
in the Cumberland News without herconsent My mother remains to this
day completely livid about itMy motherrsquos off-line presence puts
something of a distance between usShe comes from a time before Facebook
check-ins and Twitter geo-tags Shehas never known the glory of 386 new
updates glowing on her WhatsApp iconShersquos never hate-followed a frenemy on
Instagram just for the sadistic drip-dripthrill Shersquos never ghosted a friend whois past their sell-by date Shersquos never
trolled then regretted trolling She doesnot suffer power-noia or Tumblr-related
FOMO She is perfectly equipped brain-wise to enter the 21st century but shersquos
had a think and shersquos not that fussedBesides venturing forth would get
in the way of her punishing schedule ofwatching episodes of Homes Under the Hammer followed by a trip to Asda at
Grace Dent
I L L U S T R A T I O N B
Y P I N G Z
H U
partpartShe has never
known the glory of 386new updates
glowing on her
WhatsAppicon
sumsum
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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activated spray onmy roots where itadds volume to thehair shaft and as if bymagic helps to hidethinning
Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
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Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Te Front Pages
103
The most famous monument to
Admiral Horatio Nelson is the 169ftcolumn erected in Londonrsquos Trafalgar
Square in 1840 but Dublin had its owncolumn (Nelsonrsquos Pillar) more than 30
years earlier Slightly shorter but noless imposing it stood in the middle of
OrsquoConnell Street and drew its fair shareof controversy particularly after the 1916Easter Rising In 1938 a failed attempt
was made by Irish nationalists to blowit up in 1966 50 years ago this week
another attempt succeededldquoOperation Humpty Dumptyrdquo left
Nelsonrsquos Pillar some 50ft shorter andtwo days later what was left of the
monument was demolished with Nel-son himself placed in a Dublin Corpora-
tion lockup on Clanbrassil Street Buthe didnrsquot stay there for long
Suffused with the spirit of rag week agroup of students at the National College
of Art and Design liberated Nelsonrsquoshead and after sending a few pounds to
the Dublin Corporation to pay for thedamage theyrsquod caused set about usingit to pay off Student Union debts
983089
Which Best PictureOscar winner wassubtitled lsquoor (The
Unexpected Virtueof Ignorance)rsquo
983090
Jackspeak is slangused by whom
983091
Which bandrsquos 1047297rstgig was at
St Martinrsquos Collegein London on
6 November 1975 983092
How was Muslimminister el-HajjMalik el-Shabazzmurdered in 1965
better known 983093
Which item ofclothing drewgasps at Louis
Reacuteardrsquos 1946 Parisfashion show
983094
Which Londonstructure
completed in 1964did not for some
decades appear onOrdnance Survey
maps for securityreasons 983095
Kolven(Netherlands)Chole (Franceand Belgium)
Chuiwan (China)ndash all precursors of
which sport
983096
Which American(1867-1959)
declared himselflsquothe greatest living
architectrsquo
983097
Which aidorganisation was
formed in 1971from two bodies
one created inresponse to theBiafran war the
other to a cyclonein Bangladesh
983089
Whatrsquos the timeon the Doomsday
Clock kept bylsquoBulletin of the
Atomic Scientistsrsquoas of January 2015
(Answers page 38)
TheQuiz
By Chris Maume
RHODRI MARSDENrsquoS
INTERESTING OBJECTS
The headof Nelsonrsquos
Pillar
THE NOVEL CURE
Literary prescriptions formodern ailments
By Ella Berthoud andSusan Elderkin bibliotherapists
at the School of Lifethenovelcurecom
Ailment Wanting to savethe planet
Cure Te Monkey WrenchGang by Edward Abbey
Though we all want to save
the planet recycling the
wage his own type of war Hersquos
joined by a motley crew of fel-low saboteurs ndash a feminist
an outcast Mormon a doc-tor who burns billboards in
his downtime Together theyform the Monkey Wrench
Gang committed to puttingspanners ndash literally ndash into the
developersrsquo machines cuttingwires pouring corn syrup into
fuel tanks and choking en-gines with sand Their goal isto bring down the monstrous
Glen Canyon Dam and bringback the fragile gorges 1047298ooded
by Lake Powell behind itFull of explosions and en-
joyable anarchy there is acertain comic-strip vibe to
this novel which makes the
monkey wrenchersrsquo antics
not quite as shocking as theymight be and also Abbeyrsquos
characters are scrupulousabout not harming anyone
Itrsquos all about the strength offeeling behind the actions
What gives the novel itspower is Abbeyrsquos palpable love
for the natural world ndash fromthe Indian ricegrass and prick-
ly pear by the roadside to thesun1047297red outcrops of red rockFor Hayduke these are places
ldquoso beautiful they can make agrown man break down and
weeprdquo The novel reminds usthat wilderness is ldquonot a luxury
but a necessity of the humanspiritrdquo and if we destroy it we
also destroy ourselves micro
Sunday paper and composting
our coffee granules is reallylittle more than a drop in the
(warming) ocean What wouldmotivate us to take the next
step ndash to offset our CO2 emis-sions each year or even better
persuade a global corporationor two to follow suit
Edward Abbeyrsquos 1975 callto direct action inspired acts
of eco-activism in its day andremains one of the most pas-sionate pleas in literature to
protect our wild placesWhen Vietnam vet George
Washington Hayduke III re-turns from the war to find
bulldozers tearing into hisbeloved stretch of the US
south-west he decides to
when Gray arrived on OrsquoConnell Street
with the headAfter asking the crowd if anyone could
accept it on behalf of the Corporation anofficial eventually came forward ldquoAfter
all the moaningrdquo Gray told the press ldquonoone seemed to want it when we brought
it backrdquo Today the head sits quietly inthe Dublin City Library microrhodri
Over the next six months the head
went on an unusual journey It wasphotographed on Killiney beach as part
of a fashion shoot for the Evening Pressappeared on stage with the Dublin-
ers and eventually ended up in Lon-don where the antiques dealer Benny
Gray paid the students pound200 a monthto display it in his shop window It1047297nally returned to Dublin that September
Te remains of Nelsonrsquos Pillar in OrsquoConnell Street Dublin
T R I N I T Y M I R R O R A L
A M Y
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983097
Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
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Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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the scalp too
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Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
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from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Your new book Do It Like A Woman
includes a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan a Chilean revolutionaryand Pussy Riot among others Did anyof the women in the book jump out andmake you think ldquoyeah you rockrdquoFelicity Aston is probably the one I wasmost blown away by Her research stint
in the Arctic was such an incredible featof endurance for anyone man or woman
Women are often framed culturally asbeing incapable of doing things for our-
selves Also it was psychologically sochallenging having to avoid crevasses
andhellip Irsquom really sorry Irsquom struggling with
words today I went to a gig last night andmy brainrsquos just not on it apparentlyGood gigIt was a friend of mine I ended up drinkinga lot of vodka diet cokes and itrsquos just not
working out well for me today Well on we shall soldier The book hasbeen compared to Sheryl Sandbergrsquos
Lean In but that broadly encouragedwomen to play men by their own rules
What do you make of that ideaFirst I think that Sandbergrsquos book hasbeen unfairly represented in many places
But one of the reasons I chose that title
for my book was to counter the idea thatwomen need to do things like men There
is a way that men are supposed to behaveand a way that women are supposed tobehave which is seen as inferior But
actually many female attributes like
being caring or having emotions aregood positive humanhellip God I canrsquot speaktoday Whatrsquos the word Irsquom looking for
Things that humans haveFaculties CapabilitiesYeah maybe that Human capabilities Idonrsquot know Anyway sohellip fuck Irsquove lost
the thread of what I was saying again Irsquomso sorry this is a car crash
Haha no itrsquos not reallyI think the problem is your questions are
really hard I thought yoursquod ask easy thingslike ldquowhat do you have for breakfastrdquo and
ldquowhorsquos your favourite dogrdquoMoving on whorsquos your favourite dog
Ahaha obviously my dog Poppy Shersquossitting on me right now Shersquos a mongrelKing Charles jack russell chihuahua
Due to your dadrsquos work in the retailindustry you grew up all over the worldHow do you think that shaped youGrowing up I didnrsquot enjoy it I didnrsquot like
having to leave school every three yearsand having to make new friends But look-
ing back I think it was incredibly goodtraining You constantly have to walk into
rooms where you donrsquot know anyone Ithink also itrsquoshellip [long sigh] Irsquove forgotten
what I was going to say Is this the worstinterview yoursquove ever done
No no Irsquom enjoying it Yoursquove becomea public face of feminism Could youhave predicted that 10 years agoIf I went back 10 years I probably wouldhave thought the day before doing an
interview donrsquot go out and get absolutelysmashed But no I de1047297nitely did not plan
any of this Irsquom terrible at planning I tendto do things on emotion and instinct If
I start a campaign itrsquos not because Irsquovethought carefully about it Itrsquos just some-
thing thatrsquos pissed me offDo you feel you had the last laugh on
your Twitter abusers as it ultimatelygranted you a bigger platform
Itrsquos deliciously ironic in that they weretrying to silence me and they ended
up giving me a bigger voice So yeahthanks guys who tried to shut me up by
threatening to rape me ndash that didnrsquot reallywork out very well for you did itSo what do you have for breakfastSeriously I was joking Well thismorning the only thing that got me
out of bed was thinking about having anultimate halloumi roll at my local cafeacute I
had that and a massive cappuccino Itrsquosnot what I have every morning That
would be extravagant wouldnrsquot it micro
BIOGRAPHY
Born in BrazilCaroline Criado-Perez OBE
983091983089 is a Britishfeminist activistand writer who
campaigns amongother things to
improve womenrsquosrepresentation in
the media In 983090983089983091after challenging
the Bank ofEnglandrsquos decisionto replace the only
woman picturedon banknotes
Elizabeth Fry witha man she foundherself subject to
numerous rape anddeath threats onTwitter Her newbook lsquoDo It LikeA Womanhellip and
Change the Worldrsquois published by
Portobello pricedpound983096983097983097
partpart Irsquom terribleat planning
I do things onemotion and
instinct
sumsum
Caroline
Criado-PerezThe campaigner on her peripatetic childhood whywomen donrsquot need to do things like men and how she wishes shersquod taken it a bit easier last night
INTERVIEW BY OSCAR QUINE
PORTRAIT BY CLARE HEWITT
THE CONVERSATION
The Front Pages
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
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Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
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Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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pound14 down from pound18Marks amp Spencer
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pound1649 ndash 1775 TheDrink Shop AG Wines
DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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WilliamShakespeare
died on 23 April 1616 Four centuries
on hisunderstandingof what it means
to be human
has never beenmore importantto the world
In this special
issue wecelebratehis genius
Professor Ewan Fernie gves a seminar at the Shakespeare Institu
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
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Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FOX
KEEPERS
OF THE
NAME Nobody lives and breathesShakesepeare quitelike the scholars of theShakespeare Institute inStratford-upon-Avon
But what do they actuallydo Thea Lenarduzzi
pays them a visit
Ahush descends on the room as
it awaits the results of a hotlyanticipated ballot and a middle-aged
man in a black shirt and grey trouserssteps up to the lectern to address the
hundred or so people gathered in front ofhim He clears his throat Someone drops
a notepad A shoe squeaks against thepolished parquet 1047298oor Beneath the hallrsquos
dark oak gables the tension mountsLet America keep its gaudy primaries
this is Stratford-upon-Avon and Dr Mar-tin Wiggins senior lecturer and fellow of
the University of Birminghamrsquos Shake-speare Institute is about to reveal the
names of 1047297ve people who will each takea place in the Bardrsquos birthday processionaround the town next month
Wiggins who is 55 is joined at thefront by an ldquoultra-glamorous assistantrdquo
Professor Ewan Fernie one of the in-stitutersquos newer recruits headhunted
in 2011 (ldquoThough lsquoheadhuntedrsquo mightsound unusually contemporary in the
contextrdquo he concedes) Every inch themodern Shakespearean in leather jacket
jeans and a Renaissance-inspired goateeFernie who is 44 plucks pieces of paper
from glass bowls and reads names aloudto the accompaniment of whoops and
cheers conjuring images of FA Cupdraws and small-town tombolas
The audience ndash a hotchpotch of scholarsand members of the public ndash is right tobe excited This yearrsquos celebration will
be the grandest yet marking 400 yearssince the playwrightrsquos death in the par-
ish on 23 April (also his estimated dateof birth in 1564) There will be concerts
at the Barbican a new poem by the PoetLaureate and the 1047297rst performance in
more than 200 years of David Garrickrsquos gt
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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983090983088 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
both as German as schwarzbrot both dis-counters place value before beauty andboth represent serious threats to the BigFour Sainsburyrsquos Morrisons Asda andTesco Both have substantially upped thewine ante in the past couple of years withcredible ranges increasingly appreciatedby wine drinkers of all classes
Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
Plumping creampound1850 PK Prep philipkingsleycouk This new lightweightcream is great for hairthat is fine or flyawaybecause it makes hairlook fuller withoutweighing it down
Thickening tonicpound19 avedacouk I use this heat-
activated spray onmy roots where itadds volume to thehair shaft and as if bymagic helps to hidethinning
Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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still has an office at the trust in which
he can be found writing most of the timewhen he isnrsquot lecturing somewhererdquo
says Dobson For many Wells embod-ies the kind of generous and benevolent
elder statesman who might have madeall the difference in one of Shakespearersquos
tragedies ndash one might compare him to
the grey-haired Lafeu in Allrsquos Well Tat Ends Well an unwavering proponent ofhonour and charity He still gives at least
one guest class every academic year andis often consulted by the institutersquos stu-
dents about their research projectsThe Shakespeare Institute was found-
ed 65 years ago by the theatre historian
Allardyce Nicoll with the intention ofcreating a ldquoShakespeare universityrdquo for
students and the public which woulddraw together the resources of the local
Royal Shakespeare Company theatreand the libraries at the University of
Birmingham and the Birthplace TrustThankfully Mason Croft had already
been bequeathed to the townspeoplein 1924 ldquofor the promotion of science
literature and musicrdquo by resident ec-centric Marie Corelli a popular novelist
and failed performer (The latter mayhave something to do with her caveat
that ldquoall persons connected with thestagerdquo be excluded a condition happilynot met today) Nicoll secured 1047297nance
from a local businessman an heir to theMcVitiersquos biscuit empire ndash because the
institute then as now received no directgovernment funding
ldquoSince the beginning itrsquos been a ques-tion of public campaigningrdquo says Dob-
son ldquoI spend a lot of time worrying overbudgets rather than textsrdquo he adds ab-
sentmindedly stroking a statuette just inreach (ldquosold to my father as Shakespeare
although it turned out to be the Italianpoet Tasso ndash whorsquos got better hairrdquo)
The institute is part of the Universityof Birmingham he explains so it doesnrsquot
have trustees or an independent budgetldquoI get wheeled out to show potentialdonors to the university how valuable
and expensive the institute is but if theydo cough up their donations go into a
central university fundrdquoA purpose-built research library came
in 1996 the result of a campaign led by Judi Dench who cut the ribbon The
modern building juts out of the back of gt
partpartTe other day I was asked
how one might go aboutsetting the sonnets to Brazilian drumming
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
all-s inging al l-dancing Ode toShakespeare with readings by the actorSamuel West broadcast live on Radio 3
And the Shakespeare Institute is atthe heart of it all feeding an eclectic
hydra-like body of events including amajor art exhibition (at Compton Ver-
ney gallery in Warwickshire) the BritishFilm Institutersquos Indian Shakespeare onScreen season (featuring director Vishal
Bhardwaj ldquothe Indian Spielbergrdquo) andthe long-awaited unveiling just down the
road of The Other Place a 200-seat stu-dio theatre that originally opened in 1974
and has been undergoing renovationNot to mention the World Shakespeare
Congress in July ndash a week-long programmesplit between Stratford and London
ndash which as Professor Michael Dobsondirector of the institute (or in his words
ldquotheatre-goer and failed actorrdquo) explainspresents the ldquowonderful logistical chal-
lenge of getting 800 academics on buseson timerdquo Itrsquos a real worry he half jokes inhis sun-drenched office at Mason Croft
the 18th-century townhouse where theinstitute is headquartered ldquoBut thatrsquos
one of the great things about my job Irsquomperpetually doing things for which I am
absolutely not trained I get the mostextraordinary emails Just the other day I
was asked how one might go about settingthe sonnets to Brazilian drummingrdquo
Dobson whorsquos 55 leans forward hold-ing up his hands in a gesture somewhere
between that of a saintly supplicant andone carrying a loaded tea tray ldquoPeople
see the word Shakespeare by your nameand presume you must have the answerrdquo
Which is fair enough really because ndash be-tween the institutersquos seven professorsand fellows two full-time librarians as-
sociated academics and honorary fellowsndash every trust with the word Shakespeare
in it can be traced to this unimposing ter-race on Church Street about halfway be-
tween the house where the Bard was bornand the church where he is buried
No other body in the world representsquite such a concentration of Shakespeare
thinking as this institute Nowhere elsewill you 1047297nd a group of people who live
and breathe Shakespeare to such an all-consuming extent Former directors in-
clude esteemed academics such as Profes-sors Kate McLuskie and Russell Jackson
(among other things textual adviser toKenneth Branagh who is an honoraryfellow) and Professor Stanley Wells
who retired in 1998 but stayed nearbybecoming president and then honorary
president of the Birthplace Trust (Shake-spearersquos 1047297rst home where three of his
earliest printed texts are held)Now 86 Wells shows no signs of
swapping the stage for the stalls ldquoHe
ABOVE Michael Dobson thedirector of theShakespeare Institute inhis office BELOW MasonCroft theinstitutersquosStratfordheadquarters
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
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M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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the scalp too
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Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
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M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
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the old house into a garden now carpeted
with lilac crocuses They do well to seizetheir chance ndash in the summer these
lawns will be trampled by the InstitutePlayers whose outdoor performancesof the works of Shakespeare as well as
other Renaissance playwrights never
fail to draw crowdsThe library now holds a collection of
about 60000 volumes (including 3000
early 17th-century printed and rare books)newspaper clippings manuscripts and
recordings ldquoWhen you add our library tothose at the university and the Birthplace
Trustrdquo explains Karin Brown who hasmanaged the library for 10 years ldquowersquore
the second biggest Shakespeare libraryin the worldrdquo (The Folger in Washington
DC comes top ndash ldquobecause theyrsquove gotmoneyrdquo she says)
For Brown whorsquos 45 with brown curlsfalling around her shoulders the per-
formance archive is ldquoone of our greatesttreasuresrdquo In a cramped attic room arebox after box of annotated film scripts
assistant directorsrsquo prompt books andnotebooks ldquoWe have an early draft of
Baz Luhrmannrsquos Romeo + Juliet andscripts from Michael Powellrsquos never-
realised film of he empest rdquo Th atproject dates from the 1970s and would
have starred James MasonYou might also browse ndash members
of the public are granted access toondash scripts and storyboards for Branaghrsquos
1996 film of Hamlet which you couldcontrast with Samuel Westrsquos 2001 note-
books and theatre scripts for the samerole Between the unassuming covers
of Westrsquos notebook are pasted cartoonclippings of Batmanrsquos Joker (ldquoDonrsquot getee-ee-even get madrdquo) while his script
is criss-crossed with insights In Act 3 just before ldquoTo be or not to be that is
the questionrdquo West has jotted in heavypencil ldquoAnswer the question NEEDrdquo
and ldquoI canrsquot carry on the play until I sortthis outrdquo There are plenty of expletives
too ldquoHe uses the word lsquofuckrsquo a lot whichrdquosays Brown with a wry smile ldquoshows the
um passionate nature of his HamletrdquoldquoI want this to be the IMDB equiva-
lent for performancerdquo Brown explainsldquowith the whole thing digitised so that
everyone can share itrdquo But funding isscarce And donations of a non-mon-
etary sort remain essential West and theactor Jasper Britton are ldquoour great livingcontributorsrdquo Often she adds actors
donrsquot feel comfortable sharing the sortof soul-searching that goes into a role
ldquoNormally we have to wait until theyrsquoredead to get that kind of accessrdquo
ldquoWersquore all part of a communityrdquoWiggins emphasises sitting in an attic
study lined with books (A cake knife sits
on top of a copy of Tomas Middletonin Context ldquostill waiting to be claimedrdquoafter his Christmas dinner with stu-
dents) ldquoTherersquos a certain amount ofhelliprdquoIncubation ldquoYes but itrsquos not a hothouseand certainly not a sweat shop This is
the place where knowledge is made
That is our lsquoproductrsquordquo he explains withthe mischievous air of one all too awareof the increasing encroachment of busi-
ness into academiaShakespeare who rose to the top
of Londonrsquos thriving and potentiallylucrative theatre scene would surely
have empathised In those days thoughthe ldquoproductrdquo was drama and there was
a lot of it about ldquoItrsquos simply not a caseof one majestic river surrounded by
mudrdquo says Wiggins whose research
is concerned with the period from the
Reformation to the Revolution ndash ldquoabout110 years which produced around 2800
known plays of which Shakespearersquoswork represents less than 2 per cent
A very rewarding 2 per cent but 2 percent nonethelessrdquo
So how will Wiggins be markingShakespearersquos 400th ldquoEvery year we
perform the entire corpus of one personand this yearrdquo ndash he pauses briefly ndash ldquowersquoredoing Thomas Dekkerrdquo a lesser-known
contemporary of Shakespeare most ofwhose work has been lost ldquoFour hun-
dredhellip itrsquos just a numberrdquoItrsquos a sentiment that Dobson echoes
ndash to a degree ldquoThe 400 is importantbecause of what it enablesrdquo ndash in short
a network of ldquogigsrdquo around the worldldquoWeirdly Shakespeare doesnrsquot count as
foreign in other countries He was the
writer you couldnrsquot be seen to ban ndash sohe belongs to everybodyrdquo And how does
that shape the institutersquos remit ldquoWersquorean ideas lab a databaserdquo and long-distance learning is an ever greater part
of the day-to-day Seminars are now live-
streamed so that registered students cantake part wherever they are
Rather different then to the place
that Wells found when he arrived as astudent in 1958 ndash ldquothe whole place was
just crammed with booksrdquo (To be fairit still is) It was during Wellsrsquos 10-year
reign as director that the new librarycame about as well as the creation of the
chair of Shakespeare studies positionToday Wells and Do bson sit like
bookends to the institutersquos work pastand present ndash the one clean-shaven
the other grizzly-bearded both fans ofthe polo-neck in black and off-white
respectively As Wiggins says of theinstitutersquos own evolution ldquodifferentand yet the samerdquo
Wells had popped in for the Thursdayseminar ldquothe thrilling highlight of our
weekrdquo announces Dobson But now backin the main hall applause dispels any hint
of irony Ego too is left at the door and asFernie transitions from assistant ballotist
to leading man (ldquoPlease help yourselvesto the most off-putting handout ever
producedrdquo) esteemed former directorsand high-flying scholars sit alongside
students with pink hair and pensionerswith blue rinses In a lecture replete with
quips pop-culture references and evena tongue-twister (ldquoHegel-Garrick-Her-
rickrdquo) Fernie extols the radical inclu-sive ldquofreshnessrdquo of the Bardrsquos politicscelebrating his characters as proof of ldquothe
power in ourselves to be usedrdquo There isafter all he adds an established bond
between Shakespeare and democraticrevolutionaries just down the road at
their Stratford HQ the Suffragettes oncehung a banner above the entrance reading
ldquoTo Be or Not to Berdquo ndash what elseAnd it does feel decidedly democratic
as we move on to questions from theaudience (many being lecturers in their
own right) and finally drift out for re-freshments in Corellirsquos once-verdant
winter-garden now a simple commonroom Therersquos a cake sale to raise funds
one flapjack at a time for the Playersrsquosummer performances ldquoI did say wewere built on baked goods didnrsquot Irdquo
says Dobson Itrsquos democracy with a sweetslice of free-market capitalism then
ldquoThrough efforts to high thingsrdquo goesthe institutersquos motto and you could add
to that Friar Laurencersquos advice to theyoung upstart Romeo ldquoWisely and slow
They stumble that run fastrdquo 983221
partpartTe Suffragettes oncehung a banner at theirStratford HQ reading
lsquoo Be or Not to Bersquo
sumsum
Shakespeare Institute
Librarian Karin Brown in theattic archives ofthe Institute
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
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Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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From tryin to impress the grls as Kin Learto false beards that are just not up to the jobtherersquos no Shakespeare like a school Shakespeare
Actors and lsquoIndependentrsquo contributors look back
lsquoThe knifeflew out of itssheath Therewas a terrifiedgasp fromthe audiencersquoSAMANTHA BOND
PLAY MUCH ADO
AB OU T N OT HI NG
PART BEATRICE
This was the
late 1970s Iwas in my final
year and my westLondon gi r l s rsquoschool did Much Ado jointly with
the nearby boysrsquo school It had an
amazing teacher called Colin Turner whodirected all its plays ndash Hugh Grant Alan
Rickman and Mel Smith were among theboys who were directed by him
The Benedick who played opposite myBeatrice was a boy called Ed Pilkington
He went on to be a journalist We were agood match We were young and fearless
Itrsquos when yoursquore older that you start toworry about forgetting your lines
My parents were actors and my cos-tume had been worn by my mother in rep
before the war I remember her pulling itout of a trunk It was high-necked a rusty-gold colour and it had built-in bones so
you didnrsquot have to wear a corsetThe thing about Much Ado is that
therersquos hardly any verse so there wasnrsquotthat problem to overcome But I have this
theory that there is a Shakespeare side tothe brain He writes such glorious words
that they never leave you and when you
do the same play again even after many
years the words are still all thereSamantha Bondrsquos V film and staecareer includes playin Miss Moneypennyin four James Bond movies She stars in
the IV drama lsquoHome Firesrsquo the secondseries of which begns next month
JERE MY H ARDY
PLAY THE WINTERrsquoS TALE
PART MAMILLIUS
Iwas 14 and at
Farnham Col-lege in Surrey
What was weirdabout this produc-
tion was that it wasa joint pupils-staff
one Mamillius isa young prince the son of Leontes and
Hermione who were both played byteachers That made the whole thing
quite awkward I remember how an-other teacher ndash who wersquod nicknamed
ldquoPlugrdquo after the character in the BashStreet Kids ndash spent an entire perform-ance with his hand over his face because
his beard had fallen offI think I was suited to the role I was
small and quite precocious I was happyto have a go at acting but the lines were
confusing Te Winterrsquos ale is partly acomedy but like all Shakespearersquos com-
edies itrsquos not funny Still being in school Joan Bakewell (centre) as Hermia lsquoI wanted instantly to become a
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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KINDNESS
T H E T O U C H O F
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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plays was quite cool and allowed you toshow off Later on we started putting onmusicals Michael Ball was in the yearbelow me which might have had some-thing to do with it But it wasnrsquot muchgood for me because I couldnrsquot singJeremy Hardyrsquos latest one-man showtours the country from next month
JOA N BA KE WE LL
PLAY A MIDS UMME R
NIGHTrsquoS DREAM
PART HERMIA
Hermia lovesL y s a n d e r
and by a trick of theplot is betrayed byhim I rememberthose early pangsof feigned unhap-
py love I must have been about 14 Iwas at Stockport High School for Girlsand the production was in the garden ofthe school annexe Our backdrop was awall of rhododendrons we waited in theshrubbery for our entrances
It was soon after the war and therewas no fancy fabric for our costumes Sothe maths teacher Miss Nichols paintedelaborate coloured designs on to black-out material At the dress rehearsal Iaccidentally spilled a jar of water on mycostume and the pattern ran I was mor-tified But Miss Nichols did some swiftrepairs and saved the day
I loved the play though I knew little ofdramatic convention I simply acceptedits convoluted story Hermia is small darkand passionate She refers to herself asldquodwarfishrdquo Her rival is Helena who istall and blonde When their rivalry is at
its height Hermia threatens ldquoI am notyet so low But that my nails can reachunto thine eyesrdquo Helena sums her upldquoOh when she is angry she is keen andshrewd She was a vixen when she wentto schoolrdquo The line always got a laugh
I loved the whole thing and wanted in-stantly to become an actress Later in thesixth form I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night It wasnrsquot such good castingJoan Bakewell is an author broadcasterand Labour peer Her latest book lsquoStopthe Clocksrsquo has just been published by Little Brown
IAN MACMILLANPLAY KING LEAR
PART KING LEAR
We were talk-ing about
repetition in liter-ature about how itworked for effectand Mr Brownm a g i s t e r i a l l y
bohemian in his green corduroy suit (do Irecall epaulettes I think I do) threw mea battered copy of King Lear and askedme to read the speech in which Lear gt
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
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Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
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Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
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bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
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School Shakespeare
famously utters the word ldquoNeverrdquo five
times like a hammer on the audiencersquosthin collective skull
This was 1971 and I was in the fifth format Wath Grammar School in South York-shire ndash motto Meliora Spectare (ldquoLook to
better thingsrdquo) I saw the reading as my
chance to impress the girls who were scat-tered around the room they saw me assomebody who was a bit daft a bit chub-
by a bit tousle-haired A bit of a nobodyIrsquod show them I held the book up in the
air looking briefly like the Statue of Lib-erty in a blazer I took a deep theatrical
breath Someone giggled I began I didthe five ldquoNeversrdquo each one like the beat
of a drum and then I carried on I just car-ried on I stomped up and down the room
saying the word ldquoNeverrdquo over and overagain I was looking to better things to a
life where girls would admire and fancyme for my daring and rebelliousness My
ldquoNeversrdquo piled up on the floorThe bell went I carried on Nevering
Everybody filed out past me the girls
avoiding my gaze Mr Brown applaudedslowly I finished with a flourish gave
the book back to Mr Brown and wentto the library
Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster
AR AB EL LA WE IR
PLAY MACBETH
PART A WITCH
It might be dif-
ferent thesedays but if you
were at school inthe 1970s and har-
boured ambitionsto be an actor then
you had to get ldquogood at Shakespearerdquo
Never mind if you were naturally at easeon stage or had a gift for comedy If you
couldnrsquot convey the Bardrsquos words then itfollowed that you just couldnrsquot act
Well guess what Turns out Shake-speare is not that easy to act believably
least of all if yoursquore 15 and have boysparties and the rest to think about Plus
Shakespeare isnrsquot written like most peo-ple talk so that makes it extra difficult
And then yoursquove got some poncey dramateacher getting all sarky when you canrsquot
stick to the iambic pentameter and youdonrsquot even know what it is anyway And
then they decide to mount the play yoursquoredoing for O-level Like Macbeth was anideal fit for a bunch of teenagers
I was at an all-girls school so again abit odd Frankly there is nothing more
likely to make a bunch of schoolgirls fallabout laughing than pretending to be
men especially soldiers I at least had afemale part ndash one of the three witches
One problem when yoursquore ldquodoing
Shakespearerdquo is that his words being
tricky somehow make you want to moveyour arms about And no one ever gives
you ldquoarm directionrdquo So you can quiteinstinctively gesticulate with one of
them and then itrsquoll be up there and youwonrsquot know how to get it back down
Never mind arcane text ndash limbs are
a whole other minefield to negotiateI opted for wrapping my arms around
myself in the hope of conveying brood-ing evil But in reality I just didnrsquot know
what else to do with them Clever ehNow thatrsquos doing Shakespeare
Arabella Weir is an author and actressShe stars in the upcoming BBC2 sitcomlsquoTwo Doors Downrsquo
TIM KEY
PLAY A MIDSU MMER
NIGHTrsquoS DREAMPART BOTTOM
My me mo -ries of play-
ing Bottom are
sketchy I was 17and thin I donned
a yellow GoldenWonder T-shirt
walking bootsand some kind of long brown coat for
the job The cool crowd got busy as thelovers while me and some other out-
casts took care of the funnies I hadnrsquotdone much before then so fair to say
it was out of Shakespearersquos pencil thatI got my first laughs on stage Is it a cli-
cheacute when a 17-year-old twonk cast asBottom is playing opposite the
17-year-old he fancies as Titania I assume it
must be Anyway I enjoyed those eveningsreclining on a cargo net with Annie Kelly
(we went for quite a grungy set withthings like tyres and ropes dotted about)And I enjoyed bouncing up and stamping
my Timberlands and doing the ldquoI have
had a most rare visionrdquo speechMy best friend was playing Lysander
and making the girls swoon He was
majestic in those days UnfortunatelyIrsquom about to go to his stag weekend in
Bucherest where Irsquom told I have to bringa shirt and proper shoes to get into the
ldquosuperclubsrdquo But back then he was nail-ing it Hopefully no footage will emerge
to disprove my theory that we were bothexcellent at Shakespeare and that the
show as a whole had the 142-strong homecrowd rolling in the Robinson Theatrersquos
two 10 metre-long aislesTim Key is an actor writer and poet
VIR GINI A I RO NS ID E
PLAY JULIUS CAESAR
PART BRUTUS
Iwas 13 when I
played half ofBrutus Angela
played the otherhalf And since
we were only per-forming half the
play anyway it wasnrsquot much of a partBut I still remember being wrapped in a
sheet (painstakingly draped with the aidof diagrams from a chapter in a history
book called ldquoHow to Wear a Togardquo )I was also issued with a knife to flourish
at the point when I had to declare ldquoWiththis I depart that as I slew my best loverfor the good of Rome I have the same
dagger for myself when it shall please mycountry to need my deathrdquo I produced
the dagger having been warned that Imust keep it in its sheath at all times even
when flourishing it I remember my alarmwhen it flew out of its sheath and I was left
brandishing the glittering thing above myhead There was a terrified gasp from the
audience of behatted mothers and evenI Brutus went a bit wobbly
Since thenhellip hmm I love readingShakespeare but performances are an-
other matter Itrsquos those pompous actorsrsquoreverential Shakespearean voices that
get me down I was tickled recently tohear that Tolstoy having read all the playsseveral times felt not only ldquono delight
but an irresistible repulsion and tediumrdquoAnd he concluded that Shakespearersquos
words had ldquonothing whatever in commonwith art and poetryrdquo and to top it all he
was ldquono artistrdquo Well itrsquos a view 983221Virginia Ironside is an author andlsquoIndependentrsquo columnist
partpart I enjoyed
stamping myTimberlandsand doing the
lsquoI have hada most rare
visionrsquo speech
sumsum
ABOVE Arabella Weir inher school
productionof lsquoMacbethrsquolsquoI wrapped my arms
round myself in thehope of conveyingbrooding evilrsquo
BELOWTim Key (on theright) as BottomlsquoMe and some otheroutcasts looked afterthe funniesrsquo
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983091
My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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In Germany they claim him as one of theirown In Russia hersquos raw politics And missingthe jokes doesnrsquot seem to stop the Frenchloving him Our correspondents lift thecurtain on Shakespeare the global citizen
ALL THE
WORLDrsquoS
A STAGE
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
A L A M Y G E T T Y A F P F A L K E N S T E I N F O T O
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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pound14 down from pound18Marks amp Spencer
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
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I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
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M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Moscow by Nadia Beard
In a small basement theatre in central
Moscow a group of casually dressedmen and women shuffle out in front of a
quiet audience Staring into the crowdthe actors spend the next hour and a
half in complete silence moving nowand again with choreographed purposewhile a script is projected on to a screen
behind them The play is a favourite among
Russians Hamlet As the scenes reach their climax the
actors remain expressionless changing
their postures only slightly as the scriptrolls on behind them Performed by one
of Russiarsquos most radical theatre groupsTeatrdoc this experimental version of
the play was created ldquoin reaction to ageneral fatigue from all sorts of interpre-
tationsrdquo the director says Hamlet like many of Shakespearersquos
plays has enjoyed countless stagings andmemorable film adaptations in Russia
since the works began being performedin the country in the 19th century But
the Bardrsquos work in Russia has chartedno ordinary course Performances ofShakespeare in Moscow in recent years
reveal a growing tendency among direc-tors to shun purist readings of the work
in favour of something more in the realmof the imagination
In the same week as Teatrdocrsquos stag-ing another Shakespeare performance
took place across town in Moscowrsquos SADtheatre Te Night of Shakespeare was a
new take on the playwrightrsquos work Thedirector having spent weeks carefully
selecting disparate scenes from a numberof Shakespearersquos plays had stitched them
together into one singular performanceThe result was a bizarre smattering of
Shakespearean themes performed byactors in animal masks under a dizzy-ing light It was another example of the
radical new take on Shakespeare thatMoscowrsquos theatre scene has to offer
Reimagining Shakespeare in Russiais a trend that goes back to the most
repressive era of Russiarsquos modern his-tory In the 1940s dogged by Stalinrsquos
devastating stranglehold on whatSoviet writers were allowed to produce
the writer Boris Pasternak was bannedfrom publishing his own work In what
became a creative lifeline that many saysaved him Pasternak turned to translat-
ing works of Shakespeare into Russianpouring his own creative flair into plays
and sonnets that some bilingual read-ers say surpass the original Far from aword-for-word rendering of the works
Pasternakrsquos translations of Shakespearewere flooded with the political mood of
the time They took on a context of theirown They became Russian
Shakespearersquos ldquoRussificationrdquo hasstrayed into film too Still considered
one of the best film adaptations of King
Lear Grigori Kozintsevrsquos 1971 black andwhite version is presented as a tale aboutthe ultimate vulnerability of a people to
the whim of their mad leader whichrecounted with Pasternakrsquos script and
Shostakovichrsquos score chimed with lifein Stalin-era Soviet Union
A Russian-British co-production of Measure for Measure performed last year
in Moscow carried similar resonanceonly this time it was with life in todayrsquos
Russia The production was imbued withso many Putin-era parallels that a morebiting portrait of contemporary Russia
would be difficult to imagine It showedthat Shakespearersquos use as a vehicle for
critiquing Russia lives onWhether itrsquos a translation of Hamlet
a music score for King Lear or a politi-cally minded performance of one of the
ldquoproblem playsrdquo Shakespearersquos workscontinue to be woven with the political
and cultural strands of contemporary lifeperformed with their essence still intact
but in a new Russian incarnation
Paris by John Lichfield
In 1792 as the post-revolutionary Terror
ragedOthello was booed in Paris Theaudience was shocked because Desde-mona had been murdered on stage in
defiance of classical dramatic decorumSixteen years earlier the French writer
and dramatist Voltaire dismissed Shake-spearersquos work as an ldquoenormous dung-
heaprdquo containing ldquoa few pearlsrdquoUntil the early 20th century Shake-
speare was mostly performed in Francein gallicised and classicised versions In
the standard Hamlet ndashversion franccedilaise ndash the Prince survived the mass killing in
the final act Shakespeare was regardedas compelling but uncouth He ignored
the classical dramatic unities of time andplace he muddled the tragic and comic
he included extravagant absurdities suchas ghosts and bears and handkerchiefs
Cross-Channel Bard-bashing is now a
thing of the past In terms of the numberof professional productions each year
Shakespeare is the most popular play-wright in France You might even say
that Shakespeare has become the mostpopular French dramatist
In 2014 a touring production of all gt
partpartTe productionrsquos many
Putin-era parallels makeit a biting portrait of
contemporary Russia
sumsum
FAR LEFJeremy Lopezas Romeo andSuliane Brahim
as Juliet duringrehearsals atthe Comeacutedie Franccedilaise 2015 ABOVE Akira KurosawarsquoslsquoTrone of Bloodrsquohis reworking oflsquoMacbethrsquo LEFYuri Yarvetstars in Grigori Kozintsevrsquos filmlsquoKing Learrsquo
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
both as German as schwarzbrot both dis-counters place value before beauty andboth represent serious threats to the BigFour Sainsburyrsquos Morrisons Asda andTesco Both have substantially upped thewine ante in the past couple of years withcredible ranges increasingly appreciatedby wine drinkers of all classes
Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
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CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
Plumping creampound1850 PK Prep philipkingsleycouk This new lightweightcream is great for hairthat is fine or flyawaybecause it makes hairlook fuller withoutweighing it down
Thickening tonicpound19 avedacouk I use this heat-
activated spray onmy roots where itadds volume to thehair shaft and as if bymagic helps to hidethinning
Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
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M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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three parts of Henry VI achieved hugecritical and popular success in theFrench provinces ndash despite lasting for
18 hoursEric Ruf is the head of the Comeacutedie
Franccedilaise Francersquos pre-eminentnational theatre company founded in
1680 in order to perform the great Frenchclassical drama of the 17th century He
is also the director of an excellent andimaginative production of Romeo andJuliet which is appearing at the ComeacutedieFranccedilaise until the end of May ldquoTo
play Shakespeare in French remains anenormous challengerdquo Ruf says ldquoWe
inevitably miss the full complexity of theoriginal language ndash and a great deal of
the humour All the same Shakespeareis now as much a part of the canon ofclassical drama in France as Corneille
or Racine or MoliegravererdquoIn the mid-19th century Franccedilois-
Victor Hugo the son of the Frenchwriter Victor Hugo translated all of
Shakespearersquos plays into French prose(while himself learning English in exile
in Guernsey) His work was intended tobe read not performed but it is used in
many Shakespeare productions in Francetoday In recent years the first success-
ful French blank-verse translations ofShakespeare plays have been written by
the scholar Jean-Michel DeacutepratsldquoYou have two choices when trans-
lating Shakespeare into Frenchrdquo Rufexplains ldquoYou can try to make the lan-guage as dense and many-layered as the
original or you can make it simple Thereare arguments for both but the complex
versions are sometimes so complex thatthe translators cannot always explain
what their texts meanrdquoRufrsquos production of Romeo and Juliet
set in 1930s Italy is based on the Franccedilois-
partpart For the 400th
anniversarythere are
events rightacross Italy
sumsum
World stage
have wooed Juliet by a little balcony inthe exquisite northern city of Verona
For the 400th anniversary there areevents and celebrations across Italy
including a series of lectures in the cityof Pesaro that concluded in February
with a look at Shakespeare adaptationson film Rome recently staged Ariel andCaliban an offbeat reimagining of Teempest in the underground HulaHooparts club in the capitalrsquos hip and grungy
Pigneto districtThatrsquos not to say that Italian fans of the
Bard such as Bruschetta wouldnrsquot like tosee Shakespeare read and seen by more
compatriots ldquoI got into Shakespeare 33years ago because I happened to be at the
Taormina film festival when it had its firstShakespeare conventionrdquo he says ldquoWe
donrsquot study it at school perhaps becausewe have Dante Alighieri But still Dante
couldnrsquot have been a playwrightrdquo
Berlin by ony Paterson
For the capital of a nation which claims
to have been the first to have reallyunderstood William Shakespeare Berlindoes not disappoint ndash even 400 years on
from the death of the BardThis month a star-studded production
of Macbeth opens at the cityrsquos acclaimedDeutsches theatre Just a few hundred
yards down the road at the Maxim Gorkitheatre a production of Othello is defy-
ing a withering thumbs-down from the
Victor Hugo translation ldquoWe are lucky
that Shakespeare was not just a great poetbut also a great dramatist and storytellerrdquo
Ruf says ldquoPatrice Cheacutereau [an acclaimedFrench director who died in 2013] toldme that to substitute for the music and
depth of Shakespearersquos English you
must emphasise the construction of hischaracters and their interaction I try tofollow that advicerdquo
Rome by Michael Day
TS Eliot said that ldquoDante andShakespeare divide the modern
world between them there is no thirdrdquoBut while in Britain Dante remains an
exotic mystery to all but the mostdedicated Italophiles the works of
Shakespeare regularly pop up in thea-tres around Italy
It may help that the Bardrsquos plays areconstantly being adapted for the screen
with famous actors and modern inter-pretations enabling people to connectwith the stories and characters as the
Oxford University Dante expert PeterHainsworth recently observed But
therersquos something else at work Dantersquosgreat poemTe Divine Comedy about the
authorrsquos trip through Hell Purgatory andParadise in Easter 1300 accompanied by
a dead poet Virgil while no less extraor-dinary than Shakespearersquos tales does
appear more arcane and dare we say it ina more atheist society less relevant
Italian artists and directors will how-ever with no prodding wax lyrical about
Shakespearersquos universal appeal Thisability to draw crowds in Italy was shown
by the successful adaptation of Hamlet in Milanrsquos Tieffe theatre which endedin February ldquoThis was a visually modern
and minimalist Hamlet rdquo the 54-year-olddirector Ninni Bruschetta tells me on the
eve of the final performance ldquoThe storyis everything It doesnrsquot need embellish-
ment Thatrsquos why Shakespeare remainspopular because the themes issues and
observations are central to all of usrdquoItalyrsquos continuing interest in Shake-
speare is one half of a reciprocatedfascination which saw the Bard set plays
in Ancient Rome Venice and Veronandash and led to the much discussed but
never substantiated idea that the Britishplaywright spent time in the bel paese
We do know that Elizabethan Englandregarded Italy both as the cradle of artmusic and literature and a hotbed of
political religious and sexual corrup-tion so itrsquos hardly surprising that Shake-
spearersquos interest was piquedBruschettarsquos first Shakespeare adapta-
tion was Julius Caesar And millions ofItalians and foreigners stop each year at
the spot where Romeo is designated to
ABOVE Tebalcony in Veronadesignated as theone where Julietwas wooed by Romeo
ABOVE LEF Eric Ruf headof the Comeacutedie Franccedilaise
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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critics At the cityrsquos Vaganten Buumlhnetheatre a production team is hard at
it staging a 110-minute long comedyversion of the ldquoentire works of Shake-
spearerdquo while the capitalrsquos very ownShakespeare Company is currently
preparing to launch its annual summeroutdoor repertoire in June
London rarely offers such huge dollopsof Shakespeare to its theatre-going pub-lic Yet there are many more Shakespeare
plays staged in provincial theatres andby rep companies across Germany ldquoIn
German theatres every year is a Shake-speare yearrdquo is how the German Shake-
speare expert Tobias Doumlring puts itFamously generous state funding for
the arts only partially explains Germa-nyrsquos extraordinary enthusiasm for Shake-
speare It has been prevalent and unstint-ing for more than 200 years By the end of
the 19th century Germany had alreadyfounded the worldrsquos first Shakespeare
society in Weimar Not without some justification the novelist playwright and
literary critic Friedrich Theodor Vischerclaimed during the late 1880s ldquoWe cansay with pride that it was German intel-
lect which first recognised the nature ofShakespeare more deeplyrdquo
It was the German Enlightenmentchampioned by the nationrsquos literary
genius Goethe among others which setGermanyrsquos Shakespeare cult in motion
ldquoSince the 18th century the Germans
have used Shakespeare to understand
their own historyrdquo says Doumlring who isalso a former president of the German
Shakespeare society ldquoTime and again Hamlet has been used as a vehicle to ex-plain the nationrsquos turning pointsrdquo
The seal on Germanyrsquos longstanding
relationship with Shakespeare was setin 1833 with August Wilhelm Schlegelrsquostranslation of his works in which he took
the liberty of ldquoimprovingrdquo the originaltext with the upshot that ldquoTo be or not
to be that is the questionrdquo translates intoldquoSein oder Nichtsein das ist hier die
Fragerdquo Shakespeare experts on both sidesof the North Sea have long argued about
which version is the more powerfulHamletrsquos famous words (in German)
were even brought to bear during thefall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of
communist East Germany in 1989 TheEast German director Heiner Muumlllerrsquos
production of Hamlet was described as aldquorequiem for a staterdquo when it was staged afew months later in the spring of 1990
It was the celebrated 19th-centuryGerman playwright Gerhard Haupt-
mann who once insisted that ldquoShake-speare may have been born and buried
in England but Germany is the countryin which he truly livesrdquo
Tokyo by David McNeill
If you thought studying the Bard atschool was a struggle imagine trying to
filter his Elizabethan nuances inflectionsand puns though modern Japanese This
month a Tokyo theatre troop will evenperform Te (New) Merchant of Venice
entirely in the local dialect of Tohokuthe north-east coastal region devastatedby a tsunami earthquake and nuclear
accident exactly five years agoShakespeare has sunk deep roots in
Japan Julius Caesar was first trans-lated into Japanese way back in 1884
and Shakespearersquos work has been
performed here since the beginning ofthe last century The best-known troupes
today include the Tokyo ShakespeareCompany and The Shakespeare Com-pany Japan which performs the plays in
local dialect ldquobecause the original sounds
somewhat cold and distantrdquoThe Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
made one of the greatest of all Shakespear-
ean movies withTrone of Blood his takeon Macbeth He later followed it with Ran
based on King Lear Kurosawarsquos attractionto the Bard was not hard to understand
says Roger Pulvers a Japan-based play-wright and director Shakespearersquos world
resembled Japanrsquos Warring States period(1467-1603) ldquowhere internecine battles
ravaged the countryrdquoThose blood-drenched epics aside
Romeo and Juliet remains arguably themost popular Shakespeare play in Japan
says Nobuko Tanaka a Tokyo-based the-atre critic Young actors trying to showoff their talents love the main roles which
call for charisma good looks and theability to swoon and die beautifully
It was perhaps fitting then that whena faltering Shakespearean landmark
Tokyorsquos Globe theatre was saved by atitan of Japanese popular culture the tal-
ent agency Johnny amp Associates in 2002it was Romeo and Juliet that christened
the reopened venueThe agency has spawned a string of
pretty-boy bands since the 1960s andtrue to form the lead roles were played
by a pop star and an actress known main-ly for TV commercials Some especially
the stuffy purists who haunt the Englishdepartments of Japanese universitiesreacted with horror but Japanrsquos ability to
blend and meld Shakespearersquos musingsfor contemporary audiences 6000 miles
away stands out says Tanaka who spent10 years living in London ldquoI think there is
much more variety here than in EnglandTheatre groups often pick up the essence
of plays and adapt them by for examplemaking a dance version Itrsquos a unique
point of Japanese adaptationsrdquoLocal directors have also mixed Shake-
speare with traditional Japanese thea-tre such as Kyogen and Kabuki Tanaka
points out that the Kyogen actor MansaiNomurarsquosTe Comedy of Errors was per-
formed at the Globe in London 2001and Yukio Ninagawa perhaps Japanrsquosmost celebrated contemporary theatre
director created a Kabuki version ofwelfth Night which was performed at
the Barbican in 2009 The bottom linesays Stuart Varnam-Atkin a Tokyo-based
broadcaster and author is that ldquoWill isstill very much alive and well and thriving
in Japanese forms 400 years onrdquo 983221
partpartShakespearersquos
worldresemblesJapanrsquos
Warring States period
sumsum
BELOW August WilhelmSchlegel a 19th-century Germantranslator ofShakespearersquosworks
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Cicely BerrylsquoShakespearesomehow wrote inthe rhythm of how people thinkrsquo
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
THREE TO TRY
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
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ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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When even the greatestactors tackle Shakespearethey have to askthemselves how am I
supposed to speak this stuff Thatrsquos where thelegendary RSC voicecoach Cicely Berry comesin Oscar Quine meets her
Of the backstage cast of charactersin Shakespearean theatre over the
past six decades there are those preced-ed by their reputations ndash and then thereis Cicely Berry
The Royal Shakespeare Companyrsquos
first voice director she held the appoint-ment for an astonishing 45 years ndash from1969 to 2014 but she still contributes her
services ndash during which time she was asmuch feared as she was feted ldquoSo bloody
honest and so bloody demandingrdquo EmilyWatson said of her ldquoStraight out of cen-
tral casting a complete bloody tyrantrdquosaid Neil Kinnock whom she trained in
public speaking Irsquom told not to expectan easy interview a point driven home
when my idea to have Berry demonstratesome of the unconventional techniques
for which she is known is rejected Shersquosdone all that before Irsquom told and does
not wish to ldquoblow her own trumpetrdquoThanks in part to her idiosyncratic
ways Berryrsquos career has been marked
by a near-magical ability to unlock actorsrsquotrue voices One actor was instructed to
kick a beer can around the rehearsal roomwhile reciting his lines another to look
out of the window and draw what he sawas he spoke She has thus helped perfect
the vocal depth breadth and sibilance ofSean Connery Samuel L Jackson Helen
Hunt and many many moreWhile her accomplishments are
grand her physical presence is positivelydiminutive We meet in a very small side
office at The Other Place an RSC blackbox theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon that
is currently undergoing renovationShe is sitting in a chair balancing herwalking stick across the cupped palms
of her hands In May she will turn 90As she reaches out a hand to shake mine
her face breaks out into a bright smilethat is most undragonlike
My slight anxiety at sitting face to gt
SOUNDADVICE
PORTRAIT BY ANDREW FOX
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
THREE TO TRY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
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While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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DRESSING TABLE
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BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983091
My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
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I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
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ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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face with this grande dame is compound-ed by my shaky grasp of the subject
matter courtesy of a largely uninter-
ested overstretched comprehensiveschool English department It seemsbest to address this elephant in the room
So straight off the bat what for Berry isthe big deal with Shakespeare Not to be
facetious ndash obviously there is one ndash but just to hear it in her own words
Berryrsquos response focuses unwaver-ingly on what she knows the component
sounds of Shakespearersquos language ldquoTheextraordinary thing about Shakespeare
is that he somehow wrote in the rhythmof how people thinkrdquo she says in a slow
measured voice ldquoIf you think aboutit the number of phrases in everyday
speech that come from Shakespeare isquite extraordinaryrdquo
This longevity she believes can
be credited to the perfect marriage ofsound and substance in Shakespearersquos
best phrasing ldquoSomehow all the soundsthat Shakespeare uses are integral to the
meaning Thatrsquos why you have to capturethe very sound of Shakespeare to fully
understand the feelings underneathrdquoAt moments when she struggles to
recall lines Berry will chastise herself fornot having brought ldquoher Shakespearerdquo
with her But here a quotation rolls offthe tongue ldquoItrsquos like a line of Opheliarsquos
Shersquos thinking of Hamlet after a dia-logue with him where he has been really
unfeeling to her and she says lsquoOh whata noble mind is here orsquoerthrownrsquo Shersquosabsolutely ravished by what shersquos been
through Those sounds ndash ooohh ndash reflectthat she is keening for him Itrsquos totally
subconsciousrdquoIf anyone knows the power that can
actors would think of the meaning theywere not aware of the sounds that were
being used and how those sounds af-
fect how they feel and how they thinkI began to just out of frustration reallyget actors to work on a speech and walk
around saying the speech meaning itthinking it through and kicking some-
thing or bumping into somebody ormaking things difficult to see how that
releases somehow another understand-ing of the language Because theyrsquore not
making it sound right theyrsquore reactingto what Irsquove asked them to dordquo
So has the sound of Shakespearechanged a great deal in her time ldquoYes
I think sordquo Berry says ldquoWhen I startedworking I think actors felt they had
to make it sound poetic and beautifulall the time Now we donrsquot want thatActors today have a very difficult job We
donrsquot want to hear Shakespeare spokenas it was even 20 years ago we want to
hear it spoken for now so that we canget involved in the stories that are still
happening in their different ways Andyet we still want all those sounds which
are integral to the meaning to comethrough Itrsquos a tricky mixrdquo
Here she defers to Edith Evans ndashone of the theatrical greats of the 20th
century ndash and her theory of poises ldquoShewould say therersquos never a pause in a Shake-
speare speech but there are poisesrdquo Berryexplains Poises are imperceptible
delays added to words to give them alittle more space and imbue them withadded tension It is an approach that sep-
arates rhythm from meter ldquoItrsquos not aboutgetting the sounds over by making them
sound beautifulrdquo Berry explains ldquoItrsquosabout giving them spacerdquo
ldquoWith actors I beat out a speechand see how the underlying meter is
always there Like it is if yoursquore singingreggae therersquos a beat underneath it ndash but
what you do on top of that beat can beanything You could do Shakespeare
reggae reallyrdquoAside from the mischievous notion of
fusing Bob Marley with the Bard Berry ishere breathing life into one of those most
hackneyed of phrases ldquoShakespeareis aliverdquo She is adamant that his playsremain universally relevant ldquoThe more
you work on Shakespeare the more yourealise he expresses very deep feelings
in all of us Itrsquos not to do with being edu-cated or clever or whatever that means
Itrsquos to do with a true understanding ofhow people think and how that makes
them act and do thingsrdquo 983221
be packed into the raw syllables ofShakespeare it is Berry Appointed by
Trevor Nunn she has honed the vocal
delivery of every RSC star going WhenI ask if there is anyone she wishes shehad worked with she replies with a wry
laugh ldquoNo not really I worked withthem allrdquo Despite official retirement
two years ago she says she still comesin to the RSC offices most days
Her extraordinary reputation is built
on an impressive legacy Berry forever
changed the way Shakespeare is spokenon stage Her revolutionary approach
was to teach that Shakespeare comes asmuch from the gut as the head A desire
to disconnect the primacy of the mindover the spoken language she says lies
behind her rehearsal techniquesldquoWhat I feel goes so wrong when peo-
ple are rehearsing anything but particu-larly Shakespeare is that you sit around
and read it as a cast You discuss all themeanings and it is sometimes quite dif-ficult to find the exact meaning But you
are making it literal all the time keepingit at the forefront of your mind
ldquoI began to realise that that had a hugeeffect on the sound itself While the
E L L I E
K U R T T Z
Berry inrehearsals at the RSC in 2008
partpart Actors used to feel they
had to sound poetic
and beautiful Nowwe donrsquot want that
sumsum
Cicely Berry
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Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
both as German as schwarzbrot both dis-counters place value before beauty andboth represent serious threats to the BigFour Sainsburyrsquos Morrisons Asda andTesco Both have substantially upped thewine ante in the past couple of years withcredible ranges increasingly appreciatedby wine drinkers of all classes
Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
Plumping creampound1850 PK Prep philipkingsleycouk This new lightweightcream is great for hairthat is fine or flyawaybecause it makes hairlook fuller withoutweighing it down
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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983090983096 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
Imagine a worldwithout alliums
i m a g i n e f o o dprepared without
the sweetly pungentflavours of onions
shal lots leeks chives and garlic Not much fun is it
And luckily you donrsquot have to becausemost of us have an allium of some
description tucked away in the fridgeor larder Slowly cooked these kitchenstaples form the base of many a fine dish
from stews and soups to risottos pastasauces and quiches raw they add zing
and bite to salads and sandwichesIn the cold months onions can make
a comforting meal all on their own Iremember my grandmother boiling
onions straight from the garden in a
Know your onionsThe miraculous allium enhances many dishes and can even be a meal in itself
Food amp Drink
little stock then serving them with asauce made from the cooking liquid an
old ritual she performed to keeps coldsat bay Irsquove made many versions of this
dish over the years and a simple plateof onions grilled roasted or boiled can
be surprisingly delicious
LEEK AND CIDER WELSH RABBIT
SERVES 983092
This is a take on the classic Welsh rabbitndash yes itrsquos correctly spelled ldquorabbitrdquo incase you are wondering as thatrsquos what
it started off as in the early 1700s whenthere was a difference between English
Scottish and Welsh rabbits Maybe therarebit adaptation was a Welsh joke that
caught on or it was thought to soundmore sophisticated Anyway Welsh
rabbit is a refined cheese on toast with
savoury additions and in this case Irsquoveadded leeks and cider instead of stout
A couple of knobs of butter 1 medium leek trimmed halved finely shredded and well washed and dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper80ml cider 80ml double cream150g cheddar cheese grated 2 egg yolks 2tsp Worcester sauce1tsp English mustard 4 slices of bread ndash a small bloomer-styleloaf is ideal
Melt the butter in a heavy-based sauce-
pan and gently cook the leeks for 4-5minutes with a lid on until soft Season
them as they are cooking then drain in
ABOVE alliumbroth withdumplings
RIGHT leekand ciderWelsh rabbit
MARK HIX | FOOD
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DINNER PARTY
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2014 Trebuchet Red
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DVine Cellars
a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
On the face of it therersquos little to choosebetween Lidl and Aldi They are
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Where they differ however is in theirapproach While Aldi maintains a strongno-frills range headed by its ExquisiteCollection label Lidlrsquos core range is
supplemented by its one-off foire-aux-vins-style seasonal ldquoCollectionsrdquo
Indicating at its most recent presstasting that itrsquos increasing the numberof its seasonal ranges Lidl showed bothits Easter Wine Collection on shelvessince Thursday and its April Wine Cellardue in store on 21 April Whites kickedoff with a fine rose-petal scented 2014Alto Adige Gewurztraminer pound799 anda rich off-dry honeydew melon-like 2013Neszmely Pinot Gris Hungary pound679
Finishing with a crisp dry flourisha rich buttery 2014 Montagny LesCarlins pound1199 is a more than respect-
able dry white burgundy while the Capedelivers an approachably juicy 2015Chenin Blanc-Viognier-RoussanneLa Meacuteridionale pound549 and Australia apleasingly floral citrus-zesty 2015 AxisClare Valley Riesling pound599
While spring may be in the airreds here are broadly speaking betterthan whites starting off with the darkcherry-fruity 2014 Lagrein Alto Adigepound799 an aromatic strawberryish 2014Morgon Vignerons du Vieux Tinaillerpound849 and a bright violet-scented 2012Bodega Tonel pound599 Mendoza
The 2014 Saint Joseph pound899 does
the northern Rhocircne spice and pep-per to perfection while its southernhemisphere counterpart a 2015Foremost Hawkes Bay Syrah pound899is a tad more pungently peppery with afine savoury fruit quality
Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
O O D P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y J A S O N L O W E
Just a Lidl bitThe chainrsquos new range offers fine value
ANTHONY ROSE|WINE
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983089
Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
Service 983221983221983221983221983221
CHRISTOPHER HIRST
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983091
My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
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Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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a colander and leave to cool Simmer thecider until it has reduced by half addthe cream and then reduce this by halfagain until it is really thick then leaveto cool Mix this together with the leeksand other ingredients except the breadand season to taste
Toast the bread on both sides thenspread the cheese mixture on top about1cm thick right out to the edges to stopthem burning Grill on a medium heatuntil the cheese is nicely browned
SALT AND VINEGAR ONIONS
SERVES 983092983085983094
These make a great side-order with asteak or burger but are also excellent asa tea-time snack to accompany a beer infront of the TV Itrsquos a way to use up anyonions you have around and the battermade with gluten-free flour really does
give them (and all sorts of other dishes)a crisp light coating
1 medium white onion peeled and cutinto rings 4 spring onions cut into 3-4 pieces1 medium red onion peeled halved withthe root removed and sliced 3-4tbsp malt vinegar 100g gluten-free self-raising flourfrac12tbsp onion or nigella seeds Enough cold water to form a pasteSalt and freshly ground black pepperVegetable or corn oil for deep frying Onion salt to serve
Put all the onions in a non-reactive bowlwith the vinegar cover with clingfilmand leave for a couple hours givingthem the occasional stir Drain well anddiscard the vinegar (or keep for anotherbatch or a dressing)
Next mix the flour and onionseeds with enough cold water to makea thick-ish batter then season and setaside to rest for half an hour
Heat about 8cm of oil to 160-180Cin a large thick-bottomed saucepan orelectric deep-fat fryer Test a piece ofonion in hot fat to ensure that the bat-
ter is the correct thickness and that theonions will cook up crisp and not stodgyAdjust the batter with more water orflour if needed
Cook the onions a handful at a timestirring with a slotted spoon as they arecooking until crisp and golden Whenall the batches are cooked scatter withonion salt and serve immediately
ALLIUM BROTH WITH DUMPLINGS
SERVES 983092
You can use any form of allium you wishfrom shallots to overgrown chives In
fact the more of a selection you put intothe broth the better really You couldeven pop in a clove of smoked garlic to
give it a little edge
For the broth 2-3 baby leeks or spring onions cut into 2-3cm lozenges and washed 1 small red onion peeled halved andthinly sliced A little vegetable or corn oil 15 litres vegetable stock A handful of wild garlic leaves roughlychopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dumplings125g self-raising flour
frac12tsp salt 60g suet 60g freshly grated parmesanWater to mix 2tbsp chopped chives
Cook the baby leeks in boiling saltedwater for a couple of minutes untiltender then drain and put to one sideIn a heavy-based saucepan gently cookthe red onions in a little vegetable oil for2-3 minutes without colouring then addthe stock and garlic leaves season andsimmer gently for 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the dumplings Sievethe flour into a bowl and add the salt Mixin the suet parmesan and chives thenenough water to form a sticky dough
Flour your hands to minimise stickingand roll the dough into 12 little ballsBring a pan of salted water to the boiland cook the dumplings for a minuteuntil just cooked then transfer to a bowlof cold water until required
To serve add the dumplings leeks andwild garlic to the pan of broth and sim-mer for a minute Re-season if necessaryand transfer to serving bowls 983221
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Pick of the bunch are a stylishStEacutemilion-alike vanilla oaky 2012Lalande de Pomerol Chacircteau Jean deGue pound1499 and an exotic sweetiethe 2013 Tokaji Kesoi Arany Gra ndSelection Hungary pound899 half-litreoozing ginger-spicy pineapple with atoffee-apple richness 983221 F
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
YO983089983089 983089LS(983088983095983092983092983093 983092983095983093983091983090983096)
Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
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BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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REBECCA GONSALVES
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
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Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Restaurants
Eat Me Cafeacute inScarborough
was first broughtto my attention
by a prominents o u t h e r n fo o d
writer who arrivedat our nearby home slightly breathless
and somewhat late for lunch ldquoSorryrdquoXanthe explained ldquoI had to call in to see
Martyn at the Eat Merdquo If itrsquos unusual fora backstreet cafeacute to attract the president
of the Guild of Food Writers the menuwhich incorporates Thai Mexican
Malay Japanese and Shetland elementsis equally exceptional
Winner of The Good Food Guidersquos
Best Cafeacute in the UK award in 2014the Eat Me faces the stage door of the
Stephen Joseph Theatre and displaysan appropriately theatrical eacutelan in its
deacutecor Overlooked by the sultry gaze ofTretchikoffrsquosGreen Lady the dining area
was populated by the customary coffee-bar clientele of mothers with pushchairs
freelancers tapping at Apples tattoo-sleeved hipsters and hangover victims
downing double espressos There werelots of beards The coffee was notably ex-
cellent (ldquoOur own blend You wonrsquot findit anywhere elserdquo declares the menu)
and the teapots were protected fromthe northern chill by colourful cosiesOddly considering the name there was
no sign of Alice in Wonderland The global menu results (in part at
least) from the off-season globetrottingof owners Martyn Hyde and Stephen
Dinardo who happened to be in Thailandat the time of our visit After a brief wait
for a table at lunchtime my wife and Ibegan our culinary circumnavigation in
Mexico At least I think thatrsquos the homeof dirty eggs which turned out to be a
small mountain of scrambled eggs incor-porating potato and chorizo Arriving on
a great doorstep of toast itrsquos the kind ofthing we all could make ndash but itrsquos nice to
have it done for you and in such generousquantities Just the ticket for a morninghead Next we were off to Malaysia for
one of the daily specials a satay burgerin a first-rate brioche bun Fillings were
beef chicken or veggie Chicken provedto be a chunk of breadcrumbed breast
over an inch deep and topped by a gener-ous dollop of peanut sauce
The most unexpected element on the
menu Shetland broch pie was explained
by our waitress Serena ldquoStephen comesfrom thererdquo Presumably named after the
prehistoric towers that it resembles thisproved to be a supercharged cottage pie
The mince contained tasty cubes of swede(or if you prefer neep) while the mash
was bolstered by spring onions like theIrish dish champ Simple enough but mymouth is watering madly as I type these
words The accompanying brown paperbag of chips twice-fried and so sweet
might have been superfluous ndash thoughthey all disappeared ldquoI donrsquot normally
like chips but I canrsquot resist theserdquo saidmy wife popping another away
Amid tough competition a Thai fishcurry pleasingly presented in a little
enamelled rice-pudding tin proved thewinner Made with a close-flaked fish
called pangasius farmed in the rivers ofSouth-east Asia it was the best marine
dish Irsquove had in a long time Seduced byits finesse and subtle prickle of heat my
wife declared ldquoI pronounce that verygood indeedrdquo For once I couldnrsquot objectthat the cafeacute wasnrsquot using local fish Itrsquos
not just me who has a taste for pangasiusAccording to Wikipedia itrsquos the sixth
most consumed seafood in the US The only disappointment at Eat Me
concerned the simplest of dishes Welshrabbit was characterless and unassertive
(a pinch of cayenne would have done it
Scarborough fayre In the shadow of a noted theatre centre stae is taken by gant cakes Shetland pie and Thai curry
the world of good) Even here the ac-
companying salads (potato ldquohomeslawrdquoand carrot and nigella seed) were a
crunchy redemptionDespite wildly over-ordering the
mains we could not ignore the displaythat for many diners is the raison drsquoetre of
Eat Me These are the cakes supplied dailyby ldquoSue the cake ladyrdquo A refrigerated cab-inet was thronged with lemon meringue
blackberry cheesecake Mississippi mudpie cherry and almond tart and banoffee
pie while on the counter stood threecakes of monumental proportions
Victoria sponge coffee and walnut andcarrot Suersquos Victoria sponge was light
and bouncy if an inappropriately tall(fully six inches) tribute to the diminu-
tive monarch while the cheesecake bal-anced lipids and fruit in a very happy final
mouthful (Not quite final to be honestThe Eat Me quantities are so generous
that doggy bags were called for)As the lunchtime crowd was replaced
by the afternoon tea influx the back-ground music (First Aid Kit) gave wayto sounds more familiar to ageing bohos
ldquoTo dance beneath the diamond skywith one hand waving freerdquo wheezed
Bob Dylan Through the condensa-tion-streaked windows Scarboroughrsquos
homely Hanover Street briefly becameBleecker Street in Greenwich Village
around 1965 983221
partpartChips witha cottage pie
may have beensuperfluousndash but they alldisappeared
sumsum
EAT ME CAFEacute
983090 Hanover RoadScarborough
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Around pound6-pound15a head for lunch
(no wine)
Food 983221983221983221983221983221
Ambience
983221983221983221983221983221
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
Beauty
REBECCA GONSALVES
DRESSING TABLE
This week hair thickening
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Hair preservingshampoopound23 bumbleandbumblecouk Irsquom terrible aboutgetting regular trimsbut this range helpskeep my hair lookinghealthy Itrsquos good for
the scalp too
Beauty-Full volumepre-wash conditionerpound499 TRESemmeacutesuperdrugcomThis reverse-washsystem means thatexcess weight iswashed away andvolume styled in willstay put ndash great forfine hair
Volume amp Bouncendash Perfect FinishHairspraypound699 CharlesWorthingtonbootscomHairspray doesnrsquot haveto create a helmet anymore This medium-hold finishing sprayadds body and helpsstop styling falling flat
BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
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abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
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than self-conscious 983221
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I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Departing from June to September 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
bull High speed trainfrom Stockholmto Copenhagen
bull Visit to RoskildeDenmarkrsquos rst capital
bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
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The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
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bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
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bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
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bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
bull Two dinners in your selected hotel plustwo in carefully selected restaurantsshowcasing French ne dining
bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
bull Escorted by an experienced tour manager
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My hair has always been thickIndeed my sister teases me
about a bob I had when I was younger
that at its bottom was the width of herhand Louise Brooks I am not Once Ihit my teens I learnt a good blow-drying
technique and that skill coupled witha Parlux hairdryer canrsquot be beaten for
tonsorial tamingBut still I would regularly bemoan my
abundance of hair ndash until about a year agowhen I noticed that my hitherto profuse
locks were actually on the wane My scalpwas showing a bit more than Irsquod like An
appointment with a Philip Kingsley tri-chologist later and I had a prescription
that should help stop the hair lossMine is a genetic form of alopecia but
many womenrsquos hair loss is the result ofstress or hormonal imbalance A protein-rich diet is important for hair growth
but good scalp care and the right stylingproducts can help hide any follicular
shortcomings ndash even if only cosmeti-cally ndash and help you feel confident rather
than self-conscious 983221
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BEAUTY SPOT
I canrsquot recommend Parlux hairdryers highly enough Theyrsquore professional quality and far more robust than thosecheap brands that burn out in a year I have the 2800 version and would be lost without it (parluxcouk)
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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983091983096 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Terms amp Conditions Prices are per person based on two sharing and subject to availability Prices correct as of 260216 at 0900 and based on a telephone booking Additional entrance costs may apply Operated by and subject to booking conditionsof Riviera Travel Abta V4744 Atol 3430 a company independent of Independent Print Ltd Riviera Travel New Manor 328 Wetmore Rd Burton upon Trent Stas DE14 1SP Fax 01283 742301 Image used in conjunction with Riviera Travel V4744
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bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
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bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
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bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
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bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
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bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
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Departing up to November 2016
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No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
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of litres of
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JETSTORM from Ecocamelrsquosunique range of advancedshowerheads offers afull flow spa-like shower
by using the latest water- andenergy-saving technology
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is the Ecocamel mantra and ourlsquonew generationrsquo showerheadsdeliver that promise The Jetstormoffers a refreshing spa-like showersaving water energy and moneyndash a truly innovative eco-device
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you donrsquot have to ta ke our wordfor it An article in The SundayTelegraph said this about our
Jetstorm showerhe ad ldquo( Myhusband) grudgingly admits thenew model works better than theconventional showerhead so itrsquosstaying on the shower ndash much tomy and the household pursersquosdelightrdquo
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ldquoAdding to the commercial ben efit
is the showering experiencehellip Ihighly recommend all hoteliersinvest similarlyrdquo said KarenSawbridge Operations Director
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pound4000 on energy and water costsper hotel annually Secondlythe showerhead gave a veryrefreshing experience which is
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T G General Manager The DaysInn Hotel Hyde Park
The VerdictFollowing a review of five different
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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There are twogreat moments
to prune shrubs andone of them is nowPruning is an art andit is one that is worthlearning The first
lesson is that pruning means more than just cutting back Cutting back is whatyou do when something in the garden isgetting in the way You arenrsquot thinkingabout the essential nature of the thingyou are attacking You just want certainbits of it gone
Pruning is a way of persuading theplants we have to perform even better(in our eyes) than they would if left aloneIt may also cut down the space that theplant takes up but that shouldnrsquot bethe first reason to do it When you putin a tree or a shrub itrsquos only fair that itrsquosgiven the space it needs to express itselfin its true form
First ndash pruning clematis because thatseems to be the thing that gardenersespecially new ones worry about mostDonrsquot waste time on worrying Thereare roughly three groups of clematisearly flowering big-flowered mid-season
ones and late clematis Of these onlythe last group needs regular pruningAnd when I say ldquoneedsrdquo I donrsquot mean thatit will die if it is not pruned It just wonrsquotdisplay itself as well as it could Flowerswill appear in a bundle of growth highup leaving you to look into a birdrsquos nesttangle of bare stems
The late-flowering group includesclematis of the Viticella kind and a guidesuch as Te Plant Finder will helpfullytell you which group is which ldquoEtoileVioletterdquo ldquoRoyal Veloursrdquo and ldquoVenosaViolaceardquo are all members of the Viticellagang which is perhaps the most use-
ful kind of clematis to combine with anearlier flowering shrub or to accompanya rose If the clematis does well it maytry to completely obliterate its host Byclearing out the clematis growth eachseason you give the supporting shruba breathing space It can get on with itsown performance before the clingingclematis smothers it again
So you need to track back to the pointwhere the clematis starts and cut backall the stems coming from this point toabout 45cm18in off the ground Thenpull away all the top growth You feel bad
The kindest cut
Plants need to be lopped back in order to flourish ndash and now is the time to do it
doing this if the clematis has already burstinto fat bud on these stems but it will budup again and you will then have a chanceto train the growths in the direction inwhich you want them to grow
If you have planted a clematis to growwith a rose on a pergola or against a wallthe rose itself will probably need pruningnow So that means you also have to dosomething about the clematis Irsquove beenthinking about a ldquoConstance Spryrdquorose that needs dealing with Althoughdescribed as a shrub rose it can easily getto 7m20ft if it has support Itrsquos a modernrose bred by David Austin in 1961 but it
looks like an old one with big cabbageyflowers of a not too sick-making pinkItrsquos beautifully scented
Itrsquos been flowering though atbedroom-window height and neededattention In this situation the best thingto do is to pull down the stems archingthem against the wall or support as nearhorizontal as they will go This brings thebulk of the rose down to eye level It alsopersuades it to flower more freely than itwould if the stems were left in the uprightposition Not all roses are amenable tothis pulling down ldquoConstance Spryrdquo
has quite pliable stems A rose such asldquoCompassionrdquo does not
The clematis growing with ldquoConstanceSpryrdquo was ldquoVenosa Violaceardquo a Viti-cella So that meant it was easy to dealwith both at once If Cmacropetala orCalpina had been its partner it wouldhave been almost impossible to prunethe rose without temporarily ruiningthe clematis Those kinds both flowerearly in April and May and are alreadybursting with growth Cutting them backnow would not have killed them but itwould have ruined the chances of themflowering later this spring
Rules are made to be broken thoughIf an early-flowering Clematis montana gets out of hand as they often do youcan prune it immediately after flow-ering to reduce its bulk Converselyif I always followed the rules I wouldprune our yellow September-floweringCorientalis every year but I donrsquot Itdoes a good job covering a trellis in frontof a laurel hedge and does not get in theway of any other plants So I sometimesleave it for five or six years before tacklingit Itrsquos the first pruning job on my list thismonth If it ever stops raining 983221
Te Back Pages
ANNA PAVORD|LAND LINES
I M A G E S O U R C E P L U S A L A M Y
partpart Pruningis a way of
persuading plants to
perform better(in our eyes)
sumsum
Rose stems pulleddown to archagainst walls or supports will flower more freely
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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Stockholm and Copenhagen Barcelona and the highlights of Catalonia Paris by Eurostar
Departing from June to September 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
bull High speed trainfrom Stockholmto Copenhagen
bull Visit to RoskildeDenmarkrsquos rst capital
bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
bull Escorted by anexperienced
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16 days fromonly pound1969pp
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Departing from April to October 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Six nights bed andbreakfast in centrallylocated excellent qualityfour-star hotels withdinner on rst evening
bull Two dinners in localrestaurants highlightingCataloniarsquos trulyoriginal cuisine
bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
bull Return transfersto your hotel
bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
bull Paris lsquoBy Nightrsquotour experiencingsome of the worldrsquosmost tastefullyilluminated buildings
bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
bull Two dinners in your selected hotel plustwo in carefully selected restaurantsshowcasing French ne dining
bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
bull Escorted by an experienced tour manager
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Te Back Pages
This is a time ofloss and grief
in my area but the
thing that makesme angriest is the
pub at the end ofthe road To see it
closed and neglected isnrsquot like losing afamily member as one of my neighbours
suggested Itrsquos more like having a familymember locked up in a basement by a
lunatic for several years Someone shouldmake a film about it The entire area is in
suspended mourning You want to tellpeople look after your local pub give it
a substantial proportion of your incomebecause if you donrsquot some shit of a prop-erty developer will buy it and wreck it
I started going to the Winchester inthe early 1980s mainly because it was my
friend Patrickrsquos local and partly becauseit was called the Winchester although
it pre-dated the seedy little boozer in Minder by several decades It was owned
and run by a fearsome Irishwoman witha voice like a punch in the guts and a
personality only marginally less intimi-dating Elderly befuddled Irishmen
were its main clientele and old Irishtunes dominated its jukebox
But what particularly characterisedthe Winchester was its vastness The
ceilings were high enough to giveyou vertigo and the science-fictionlandscapes on the wall purchased in bulk
Irsquove thought about
this question alot over the years
and Irsquove finally ar-rived at a defini-
tive answer no youdonrsquot There I said
it Of course every scenario is differentand there are degrees of fancying some-body But if yoursquove been on a couple of
dates and yoursquore not sure you fancy himenough then Irsquod say give it some time
Irsquom not talking about months ofholding back vomit and praying that
his strange body odour will suddenlyturn into an irresistible pheromone but
if you rule someone out on the basis of a
lack of instant physical attraction alone
you could be missing outI have a friend who is madly in love
and about to move in with her adorablechap Their first date A disaster He
turned up late and she told me wasldquosweaty bumbling through conversa-
tion and nearly knocked a glass of wineover me I just didnrsquot fancy him at allrdquo
As fate would have it she bumped into
him a second time at a party with mutualfriends and saw him in a completely new
light She wasnrsquot necessarily fully sold onhis virtues but when he called to ask her
out on a second date she said yesFor me I had an instant attraction
to my boyfriend but then it definitely
wavered as a result of events that occurred
between dates two and three When hetold me he didnrsquot want to come to a gig
because his boots were hurting his feettoo much I thought how unsexy
But then he turned up on a motorbikeon the next date and I said hello to a full-
on macho fantasy I didnrsquot even know Ihad Then I saw him with his mates andhow much they laughed together Then
he cooked a mind-blowing Mexicanfeast and thenhellip So by date four or five
Irsquod given him the chance to be an actualthree-dimensional person
So yeah give it time Unless hersquos anidiot In which case move right along 983221
lovefoolforever
it as an escape from the pressures of lifesomewhere to sit peacefully while MTVor Sky Sports blared away in the back-
ground and the elderly Irishmen yelledat each other trying to be heard Every
so often one of them would die and hisphotograph would be displayed behind
the bar where the cheese rolls used tobe It seemed only appropriate
And in all those years I exchangedmaybe 30 words with the landlord Pat
which suited us both fine Sometimestherersquos too much conversation in the
world The first time we had a really goodchat was at their farewell party They had
sold up for trillions and were going backto Ireland for a long rest They deservedit But the purchasers have since turned
this huge building into flats which no oneseems to live in If they remain empty
rumours that they have been bought byforeign criminals for money-launder-
ing purposes like much of the rest ofLondon will no doubt circulate
In January we heard that the develop-ers had applied to turn part of the bar
area into two more flats which wouldhave been the end of the pub but the
council has turned them down Theywill surely appeal Their entire business
model rests on there never being a pubthere ever again I hate these people
They deserve pain disease and agonisingdeath Minersquos a pint of lager with twopackets of cheese and onion crisps 983221
partparthere were
two lagers ontap and one ofthem was Skol
It was paradise
sumsum
from Woolworths gave you a headacheFor the hungry two clingfilmed cheeserolls of uncertain age were displayed
behind the bar Very few people werethat hungry Instead most of us ate our
own bodyweight in dry-roasted peanutsThere were two lagers on tap and one of
them was Skol It was paradiseIn time the terrifying Irishwoman died
and the pub was inherited by her son Patand his wife Val Irsquom not sure Irsquove ever
seen two people work harder for longerThey redecorated They started to offer
proper food Younger people started toshow up They included Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost who lived nearby and wouldlater name the pub in Shaun of the Dead in the Winchesterrsquos honour Not that I
knew them or would have recognisedthem for as I say it was a big pub
I met my friends there most Fridayevenings for 20 years Otherwise I used
Closing time
Look and learn
Do you have to fancy somebody
straightaway
THIS WEEK
ALISON TAYLOR| RELATIONSHIP DILEMMAS
MARCUS BERKMANN|LIFE LINES
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983095
Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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983091983096 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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OFFERS
Independent travel oers
Nice Monaco andthe Cote drsquoAzur
Terms amp Conditions Prices are per person based on two sharing and subject to availability Prices correct as of 260216 at 0900 and based on a telephone booking Additional entrance costs may apply Operated by and subject to booking conditionsof Riviera Travel Abta V4744 Atol 3430 a company independent of Independent Print Ltd Riviera Travel New Manor 328 Wetmore Rd Burton upon Trent Stas DE14 1SP Fax 01283 742301 Image used in conjunction with Riviera Travel V4744
Brochure Line 01283 742 376 or visit independentcouktraveloers
3430
ABTA NoV4744
Stockholm and Copenhagen Barcelona and the highlights of Catalonia Paris by Eurostar
Departing from June to September 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
bull High speed trainfrom Stockholmto Copenhagen
bull Visit to RoskildeDenmarkrsquos rst capital
bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
bull Escorted by anexperienced
tour manager
16 days fromonly pound1969pp
15 days fromonly pound1799pp
Departing from April to October 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Six nights bed andbreakfast in centrallylocated excellent qualityfour-star hotels withdinner on rst evening
bull Two dinners in localrestaurants highlightingCataloniarsquos trulyoriginal cuisine
bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
bull Return transfersto your hotel
bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
bull Paris lsquoBy Nightrsquotour experiencingsome of the worldrsquosmost tastefullyilluminated buildings
bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
bull Two dinners in your selected hotel plustwo in carefully selected restaurantsshowcasing French ne dining
bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
bull Escorted by an experienced tour manager
Fully escorted tours
Six days fromonly pound909pp
Seven days fromonly pound699pp
Four daysfrom pound199pp
Eight days from only pound849pp
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THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE 983091983095
Get the Picture Annalee Mather Find the well-known word n ame or phrase made by each group of pictures an d the theme that unites them all An swers on page 38
A L A M Y R E U T E R S G E T T Y I M A G E S
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983091983096 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
8192019 TheIndependentMagazine5March2016 Downmagazcom
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OFFERS
Independent travel oers
Nice Monaco andthe Cote drsquoAzur
Terms amp Conditions Prices are per person based on two sharing and subject to availability Prices correct as of 260216 at 0900 and based on a telephone booking Additional entrance costs may apply Operated by and subject to booking conditionsof Riviera Travel Abta V4744 Atol 3430 a company independent of Independent Print Ltd Riviera Travel New Manor 328 Wetmore Rd Burton upon Trent Stas DE14 1SP Fax 01283 742301 Image used in conjunction with Riviera Travel V4744
Brochure Line 01283 742 376 or visit independentcouktraveloers
3430
ABTA NoV4744
Stockholm and Copenhagen Barcelona and the highlights of Catalonia Paris by Eurostar
Departing from June to September 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Five nights centrallylocated four-staraccommodationwith breakfast
bull Sightseeing tourof Stockholm andCopenhagen
bull Tour of SwedenrsquosRoyal Palace
bull High speed trainfrom Stockholmto Copenhagen
bull Visit to RoskildeDenmarkrsquos rst capital
bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
bull Escorted by anexperienced
tour manager
16 days fromonly pound1969pp
15 days fromonly pound1799pp
Departing from April to October 2016
The price includes
bull Return ights taxesand transfers
bull Six nights bed andbreakfast in centrallylocated excellent qualityfour-star hotels withdinner on rst evening
bull Two dinners in localrestaurants highlightingCataloniarsquos trulyoriginal cuisine
bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
bull Return transfersto your hotel
bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
bull Paris lsquoBy Nightrsquotour experiencingsome of the worldrsquosmost tastefullyilluminated buildings
bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
bull Two dinners in your selected hotel plustwo in carefully selected restaurantsshowcasing French ne dining
bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
bull Escorted by an experienced tour manager
Fully escorted tours
Six days fromonly pound909pp
Seven days fromonly pound699pp
Four daysfrom pound199pp
Eight days from only pound849pp
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Quiz Answers ( from Page 7) 1 Birdman 2 Sailors in the Royal Navy 3 The Sex Pistols4 Malcolm X 5 The bikini 6 The GPO Tower now known as the BT Tower 7 Golf8 Frank Lloyd Wright 9 Meacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres 10 Three minutes to midnight
Get The Picture Answers (from page 37) Theme Characters from A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream Top row Demetrius Peaseblossom Second row Hippolyta
Theseus Third row Puck Titania Fourth row Helena Cobweb Lysander Oberon
Te Back Pages
To be hired by Mark E Smith hasnever been a guarantee of long-term
employment As founding genius of themighty Fall he has gone through dozens
of musicians over the past four decadesAnd itrsquos not just band members who
have to watch themselves he once fireda sound man for ordering a salad
The Fall formed after Smith saw theSex Pistols play in his home town of Man-
chester have been both immovable objectand unstoppable force in popular musictheir relentless driving beat the perfect
vehicle for Smithrsquos extraordinary lyricspart surreal sci-fi part sardonic observa-
tion delivered with rockrsquos best-lovedsnarl Smith himself has become a strange
kind of antimatter national treasureHis face which looks as if itrsquos spent
the past 40 years in a pub snug seemsto be moving through its Johnny Cash
phase on its way to WH Auden Hersquos pos-sibly the best-read rock star ndash he named
his band after a Camus novel after allndash and his occasional interviews reference
the likes of HP Lovecraft MR JamesThomas Hardy Hunter S Thompson
Philip K Dick and Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall have released more than
100 albums if you take in live sets and
compilations and have had more than 60members during a career rocket-fuelled
by creative tension When the authorDave Simpson tracked down more than
50 of them for his book Te Fallen therewere stories of flying chairs ferocious
dressings-down drummers fined pound5for hitting the tom-tom But they all
admitted that it had made them bettermusicians ldquoI like to push people till I get
the truth out of themrdquo says SmithWhen John Peel died in 2004 Smith
appeared on Newsnight supposedly topay tribute to The Fallrsquos most enthusiastic
champion Curmudgeonly even by thestandards of pop musicrsquos greatest grumpit confirmed Peelrsquos view of the man ldquoYou
can never be certain what yoursquore goingto getrdquo the DJ warned ldquoSometimes it
may not be what you wantrdquo 983221
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
M983137rk E SmithChris Maume on the curmudgeonly musical genius behind The Fall 983093983097 today
Mark E Smith in 1980 P A U L S L A T T E R Y
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bull Visit to RoskildeCathedral
bull Visit to FredericksborgSlot
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bull Two dinners in localrestaurants highlightingCataloniarsquos trulyoriginal cuisine
bull Timed and guided tourof Gaudirsquos masterpiecethe basilica ofSagrada Familia
bull Visit to the beautifulmedieval city of Girona
bull Walking tour ofTarragona
bull Visit to Montserratrsquosworld famousBenedictine monastery
bull Visit to Cava vineyard
bull Tour of Poblet anamazingly preservedCistercian monastery
bull Escorted by an
experienced tourmanager
Departing up to November 2016
The price includes
bull Return rail connectionsavailable on selecteddates from over ftyregional stationsand return standardclass reserved seat onEurostar from LondonSt Pancras International
bull Return transfersto your hotel
bull Three nightsrsquo withbreakfast in excellentquality three or four-
star hotels locatedapproximately twomiles from Notre
Dame the geographicalcentre of Paris
bull Paris lsquoBy Nightrsquotour experiencingsome of the worldrsquosmost tastefullyilluminated buildings
bull Visit to Versailles withits astonishing Chacircteaugrandiose home of theFrench monarchy
bull Services of anexperienced tourmanager
No French region res the imagination like the Cote drsquoAzur with its unique blend of naturalbeauty hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts The Mediterranean coast is at itsmost magnicent with blood-red rocky coves and sweeping bays of shimmering azure bluewater Selected departures from April to October 2016 the price includes
bull Return ights taxes and transfers
bull Seven nights in four-star or four-starsuperior accommodation with breakfast
bull Two dinners in your selected hotel plustwo in carefully selected restaurantsshowcasing French ne dining
bull Guided walk of Nice with its neart Italianate n de siegravecle buildingsand rabbit warren of atmosphericmedieval streets and alleys
bull Tour of some of Francersquos mostoutstanding mountain scenerythe remote Gorges du Loup
bull Guided tour of the spectacular Villa
Ephrussi once home to the Rothschildbanking dynasty crammed withamazing art works and surroundedby nine pristine gardens
bull Tour of Menton with its honey-coloured shuttered buildings Cocteaumuseum and grave of William WebbEllis ndash the lsquoinventorrsquo of Rugby
bull Tour the traditional perfumeries inGrasse discovering how some of theworldrsquos nest fragrances are blended
bull Escorted by an experienced tour manager
Fully escorted tours
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Four daysfrom pound199pp
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