THE TRIXIE NEWSLETTER
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Over the weekend of 11th February, 2012, The Shakespeare Code received its…..
20,000th VIEW!!!
The two new countries which have joined are…..
KUWAIT
and GUATEMALA
……and both are most welcome….
This brings the total number of participating countries to…..
EIGHTY-SIX!!!
The other great news is that Kevin Fraser, the Director of The Titchfield Festival Theatre, has commissioned Chief Agent Stewart Trotter to write an entertainment about Shakespeare…
It will open The Shakespeare Festival to be held this summer in Titchfield, Hampshire, in the historic Great Barn…
Great Barn
It will be entitled
‘OUR COUSIN WILL’
or Will in his Own Words…..
with some extra ones written by Stewart Trotter
A Life of William Shakespeare constructed from his Sonnets and Plays……
AND A MASSIVE DATA BASE!!!
It will run in Titchfield from Wednesday, 23rd May to Saturday 26th May, 2012.
For more information, please click: ‘OUR COUSIN WILL’
It’s the Thinking Man’s Shakespeare in Love….
The second commission that Stewart has received this month is from the Director, Writer and Producer – and Chairman of The Palace Theatre Guild – Charles Sharman-Cox.
He has invited Stewart to edit the forthcoming The History of the Palace Theatre to celebrate the centenary of this famous Westcliff venue in October…
As a teenager, Stewart spent many happy hours in the gallery and recalls seeing a matinee of King Lear for sixpence – SIX OLD PEE!!!
Afterwards he went to a performance of The Monster of Piedras Blancas at the flea-pit opposite…
Simon Callow, an Inductee of The Code’s ‘Roll of Honour’………
…… was delighted by our review of his brilliant book Charles Dickens and The Great Theatre of the World, describing it as….
gorgeous
and adding
you certainly got it.
To read the review, click: HERE.
Eddie Linden, F. S.C., a full Fellow of The Shakespeare Code……
……continues to receive rave reviews for his new collection of poems – A Thorn in the Flesh…..
The distinguished poet, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain……
….who has been described as the ‘foremost female poet of the age’ wrote a beautiful review of the book in Poetry Ireland Review….
Four decades of editing his magazine Aquarius have not mellowed Eddie Linden. Yet he himself has somehow escaped, has retained an old-fashioned staunch socialism, values peace and sleepless nights in ‘that bedsit world’ of Maida Vale. He has found a mental space that allows him to craft these few sharp-edged woodcuts of his own and other lives. ‘A Sunday in Cambridge’ gives him a glimpse of an unreachable paradise: ‘You looked like Mary Magdalen?/And I wanted to wash your feet….’
In the harsher everyday world he is sustained by the example of his few heroes, including poets, priests and artists. This book in all its brevity reflects a total, unpredictable and authentic view of a life that could not belong to anyone else…
If you would like to read your own Trixie the Cat’s review of Eddie’s book, please click: HERE.
The three parts of ‘Shakespeare:the Movie’ are now complete. If you’ve not taken your seats yet, you are invited to do so NOW!
‘Bye now……
The Shakespeare Code 
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