Nov. 29th, 2008

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From [livejournal.com profile] fannish5: Name the 5 fannish things for which you are most grateful.

And here I've already gone and said 'John Barowman' and 'other fans'. So... what's left to say? Words. I'll pick words I'm grateful for.
  1. "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?" (The Doctor, in Doctor Who)

  2. "Think something you can only half-see, like a glimpse, like something out of the corner of your eye. With a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit world, a touch of reality all jumbled together, old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris, spinning around a ring planet, tossing, turning, whirling... backwards and forwards through time." (Captain Jack Harkness, in Torchwood)

  3. "I don't care about the past - I believe in the power to reinvent yourself." (Lex Luthor, Smallville)

  4. "Do you know how hard it is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off: Elvis." (Fox Mulder, X-Files)

  5. "Why would the universe make fun of us all?"
    "Maybe it's insecure."
    (Dani Reese and Charlie Crews, "Life")


fajrdrako: ([Torchwood] - Captain Jack)


Title: The Nature of Love
Author: [livejournal.com profile] fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Gwen
Challenge: [livejournal.com profile] tw100, challenge: pie
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Cross-posted to my LJ and to tw100.

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I went tonight to see The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht. It was a National Arts Centre Production, sort of, but not held at the NAC - it was held at the Domion-Chalmers United Church, one of my favourite places in town, though I haven't been there in years.

Now, Peter Hinton directed it, and I have sometimes been less than enchanted with his productions. But it's part of a sort of educational series - last year they did a medieval miscellany, which I enjoyed. This year: Bertolt Brecht.

I was more familiar with the music than the text of the plays, or the story of Brecht's live. (Most interesting: Now I want to read a biography.) My favourite part was the very beginning - the whole troupe singing "Mack the Knife" - and the very end: a scene from The Life of Galileo. Though the whole show was about Brecht's sense of realism and his anti-Romantic approach to theatre, the more they said he wasn't a Romantic, the more I found myself thinking how Romantic his attitude was. Thoughtful idealism.

I expected to recognize some of the actors, like Bruce Dow, whom I saw as the Emcee in Cabaret a few months ago in Stratford - looking much younger and sweeter as himself, though I have a photo of him in scarlet robes, right here in my living room. There were a few familiar faces from Stratford like Diane D'Aquila and Lucy Peacock, and, suprise, suprise, Jovanni Sy - a Toronto actor whose sister used to be a good friend of mine. I once spent a weekend in New York with Jo and a group of mutual friends. I think that's the time we went to see Ian McKellen's Richard III, a memorable occasion.

I'm not sure whether I like Brecht's writing, but I do like his attitude.

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