The Bluestocking Pub - Withered Old Haggis edition.

[Boiledbeetle]

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5387894-the-bluestocking-does-a-late-night-flit-again

Figured it was my turn for once!

Plus this way I beat the rush to the bar.

Now I must return to the previous thread to relocate my Tunnock's secret stash.

Serve yourselves until the bar gerbils arrive.

I like this one better.

Is Theatre of Blood the one with a policeman in the car boot?

What Shakespeare play has a car boot in it??

PS I am not an android IRL. Some things would be easier if I was.

@SionnachRuadh I just looked up your film. Not sure comedy horror is my thing, but the premise sounds appealing and it's got an incredibly classy cast, so I guess everyone had fun making it.

If you like riffs on Shakespeare I would thoroughly recommend Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood.

Romeo & his Alfa Romeo Giulietta?

It is indeed!

I have a far too extensive knowledge of old genre movies, but it's a good one.

Amazing cast too @FourthInstar - Diana Rigg is great, and her daughter Rachael Stirling did the same part in the stage version.

Car rear lane us

The Tempest (Ariel Atom).

Still not declaring what I'm not in any of the universes currently on offer.

Ford Coriolanus?

Two Gentlemen of VeRover

@Boiledbeetle It’s not your acting abilities. I’m thinking you should really be doing Measure for Measure, because you’ve got a name check in that.

(The poor beetle which we tread upon, in corporeal sufferance finds a pang as great, as when a giant dies)

[No beetles were harmed during the making of Measure for Measure. All scenes with beetles, gerbils, quokkas, badgers red pandas and any other living creatures* were supervised by the Bluestocking Humane Association.]

*Living creatures include all android life forms.

<cough!>

It’s the Bluestocking Humane Association. Protection of any cake related life forms is a given.

I'm not sure I've ever seen Measure for Measure.

My favourite is Twelfth Night with Malvolio in his stockings and cross garters.

Please could someone let me know when normal service has been resumed? I only want a quiet drink in the company of women.

Measure for Measure is a problem play, because it is neither comedy nor tragedy. It had the Duke leaving the kingdom in charge of Angelo, who is a strict moralist. He insists on the death penalty for sec outside marriage, sentencing Claudio to death for getting his lady pregnant. Claudio begs his sister Isabella, a novice nun, to plead for his life, and when Angelo insists on sleeping with her as the price, Claudio begs her to do it.

The Duke in disguise helps Isabella swap with Angelo’s jilted lover on the night, but Angelo reneges on the deal, despite being taken in. The Duke returns and exposes Angelo, forcing him to marry his former love. Claudio is reprieved and it is implied that Isabella marries the Duke. It is my favourite play.

I have a fondness for the Scottish Play, which we did in school. Although I feel it could be improved by the addition of Inspector Taggart - it doesn't feel right if there's a murrrderrr and he isn't around.

Oh you can do that in the snug.

Im off to the spa.

What, like a heck of a lot of Taggart?

Jo Nesbo did a re-write about 5 years ago set in a modern dystopian Scotland. What can I say except 'Wow!" But there and again, Jo Nesbo has a very strange view of the human condition

I like my Scandi detective novels - I'm a big fan of Camilla Lackberg - and I've always thought they would transfer well to Scotland.

Ireland, maybe not quite so much. Our culture is... well, I sometimes mention Black Books to English friends, and they always assume it's a surrealist comedy until I say I know at least six people exactly like Bernard.

Thank you.

yesterday

was a

very strange day

at the Bluestocking

Gonna hide behind cushion until sure reality is stable.