Happy Monday Mumsnet.
so - last night the BBC showed Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev in Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet.
I can't remember the last time something engaged me (got me off my ipad) so much. And that despite the slightly dodgy visual quality and the wobbly credits (think Acorn Antiques).
What got me was that Fonteyn seemed to take me through a whole life. First the bit when you are waiting for something to happen and trusting and optimistic. Then the plunge into love and surrender. Then a whole other stage of life when the love is still there but you have hurt each other deeply too. Then the end, knowing you can't pull away from each other but you can't make things right with other people either.
I think she was old for playing Juliet (in her 30s?) but she seems to have turned that into a plus - she put all her life experience into depicting a life journey that somehow both took a few days and yet covered a whole life.
And the music.........
that's all. It's on iPlayer. Guaranteed to improve quality of life x