Questions from Slemslempike.
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whatho1. What is your earliest theatrical memory?
My very earliest theatrical memory is bizarre and unclear. I was in nursery school, probably about four years old: we'd been taken, either on a coach or in parents' and teachers' cars, to a small theatre that actually looked more like a school hall than anything. I have no idea what we'd been taken to see because the seating wasn't raked and I was tiny - all I could see was the back of the person in front of me. I only recall sitting there in a state of utter bafflement for about five minutes, but then I had a rubbish sense of time at that age (I remember insisting to my father that we'd been on holiday for nine weeks, and I knew because I'd been counting the Tuesdays. Actually it was a fortnight). The next thing I remember is standing in the car park back in my village, wondering why my perception was all so off and debating whether or not it was actually a dream when my mother turned up and took me home. Well done her.
In case that really was a dream, the next memory, from only a year or two later, is much clearer - I remember being taken, with my primary school class this time, to see Mother Goose, my first and only panto. There were proper red curtains and my mum had given me sandwiches, which saddened me slightly because everyone else had money and was buying boxes of Maltesers in the interval, but there we go. I'm over it now.
2. What is your least favourite poem?
Hm. I do loathe 'Daffodils', especially when lecturers try to pretend there's something of value in the whole silly mess, but that's not a very original choice. I'm fairly unfond of all the Romantics, to be honest. I'd have liked 'Daffodils' a lot more had he really wondered lonely as a cow, that said. Don't like 'The Lady of Shallot'. Andrew Motion's too easy a target, but still. Can't be doing with Pinter as a poet either.
3. What colour would you paint your wagon?
Red with a white stripe down the side, on balance. And I'd write 'wagon' on it in the font they use in The Prisoner.
4. What would be your downfall as a spy?
I'd adopt the name Illya Kuriakin, in spite of everyone's best efforts to talk me out of it, and be nabbed for not taking things seriously enough.
5. Giraffes or kangaroos?
Giraffes. They make me think of Ford Prefect.
My very earliest theatrical memory is bizarre and unclear. I was in nursery school, probably about four years old: we'd been taken, either on a coach or in parents' and teachers' cars, to a small theatre that actually looked more like a school hall than anything. I have no idea what we'd been taken to see because the seating wasn't raked and I was tiny - all I could see was the back of the person in front of me. I only recall sitting there in a state of utter bafflement for about five minutes, but then I had a rubbish sense of time at that age (I remember insisting to my father that we'd been on holiday for nine weeks, and I knew because I'd been counting the Tuesdays. Actually it was a fortnight). The next thing I remember is standing in the car park back in my village, wondering why my perception was all so off and debating whether or not it was actually a dream when my mother turned up and took me home. Well done her.
In case that really was a dream, the next memory, from only a year or two later, is much clearer - I remember being taken, with my primary school class this time, to see Mother Goose, my first and only panto. There were proper red curtains and my mum had given me sandwiches, which saddened me slightly because everyone else had money and was buying boxes of Maltesers in the interval, but there we go. I'm over it now.
2. What is your least favourite poem?
Hm. I do loathe 'Daffodils', especially when lecturers try to pretend there's something of value in the whole silly mess, but that's not a very original choice. I'm fairly unfond of all the Romantics, to be honest. I'd have liked 'Daffodils' a lot more had he really wondered lonely as a cow, that said. Don't like 'The Lady of Shallot'. Andrew Motion's too easy a target, but still. Can't be doing with Pinter as a poet either.
3. What colour would you paint your wagon?
Red with a white stripe down the side, on balance. And I'd write 'wagon' on it in the font they use in The Prisoner.
4. What would be your downfall as a spy?
I'd adopt the name Illya Kuriakin, in spite of everyone's best efforts to talk me out of it, and be nabbed for not taking things seriously enough.
5. Giraffes or kangaroos?
Giraffes. They make me think of Ford Prefect.
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