On a lighter note, I have also been watching a lot of plays etc. The National Theatre (UK) is broadcasting a play every Thursday and I have seen all of those, and at the moment am watching a broadcast from one of the local theatres. But a particular highlight was on Britbix, which has all the old Doctor Who episodes. Some from the earliest series seemed to be calling on stage actors who had little or no experience of television, so I particularly enjoyed a villainous Aztec priest that the actor decided to use his stage experience of Shakespeare's King John for, complete with hunch back, Shakespearean language and mannerisms suitable for watching from the back of a large theatre, so wildly overextended for TV. Hilarious!
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