There is no greater drama than that of learning to love. Romantic love is only one part of that drama, but in it, as in every partial love, we can see the larger drama at work. Director Polly Findlay’s production of As You Like It was especially helpful in highlighting the acute vulnerability and journey that loving requires of us. And this course, Understanding As You Like It, led by theatre critic and academic Kate Bassett, was particularly helpful in revealing the vulnerability and journey accepted by this NT company in offering us this depiction of love.
I will summarise the course, segment by segment, and thenconclude with my own thoughts, endeavoring to put As You Like It in the context of Socratic drama.
To those who have, in some measure, touched me as a fellow traveller, however brief may have been the time we have had together, I am writing a New Year’s letter. The letters I have written these last nine years, since I “retired” from the legal profession, have been few. These have been all-consuming years, in the midst of which, and about which, I have hardly known how to speak. For better or worse, I seem to be finding my voice, and I am tempted beyond restraint to share it.
A book review by William G. French, first published 26 May 2013 at VoegelinView.com
I suspect that Glenn Moots is a great fan of Agatha Christie. It is not that his book is a work of fiction, but it certainly does read like a murder mystery. True to the genre, the tale begins with the discovery of a death: in this case, God’s. But this is a detective story with a twist.
