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Dean Bolton's avatar

The perfect thing to eat your breakfast to. My goodness your voice is smooth and relaxing. Informative and useful as always.

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Thank you! What a very nice thing to say

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Robert's avatar

Hello Dominic, I’ve always been attached to “The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People”.

Good old Oscar Wilde. Perhaps it reflects that I once took myself too seriously.

The best bit of the play is the character ‘Algernon’ … always loved that name …you’ll probably find a neighbouring cat by that name if and when you move to the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea on your gold profits!

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Matthew Orton-Wadhams's avatar

Noises Off by Michael Frayn is very good but my favourite farce is Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.

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andy's avatar

Serious here as Bill Bowerman, but remember him as Oddball?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2JxZp0lq5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IatwoA00E0

Camus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KC1YrxJma8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8cENmTttA&t=30s

The question seems to be how does the “one truly significant philosophical question” get “rephrased” by wo/man & then acted out in contravention to Camus’s conclusion?

Kill the currencies, kill the cultures, Kill Bill, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Just kill everything … & get it over with?

Death wish is strong … many too many want to push the Charlie Bronson obliteration-button.

May the farce be with you? Well, that’s the “free money” trade, isn’t it?

Instead alas too many play with the house money, the House MD money: “Everybody lies.”

And “Friends” is a ploy to steal your socks. And prescribe wallop doses of cat-amine to take into the hot tub with you.

Suicide’s the pact, alright. Just call it something else, is all.

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