Roger SansomAdam as an Add-onMy reading has been eccentric, sometimes bitty, always unpredictable in my reaction to it. This is in recent months, and that has been the…2 min read·Apr 28, 2022----
Roger SansomGetting Started!I have a bee in my bonnet recently about non-actors misquoting theatre situations (after a staggering misunderstanding of my own…4 min read·Mar 13, 2022----
Roger SansomBooked UpI gather that the top titles that people falsely claim to have read are “War & Peace”, “Hamlet”, “Ulysses” and “Les Miserables”. Sometimes…2 min read·Mar 6, 2022----
Roger SansomMy Files, covering birth to “death”, & even madnessOur home filing system looks good, with smart filing cabinets and the drawers each marked. The drawback is the problem of finding things…4 min read·Oct 1, 2021----
Roger SansomHere’s looking (back) at meLast month I noticed that I had been keeping this blog for a year (my thanks again to Mei who showed me how to start). That may have been…3 min read·Sep 12, 2021----
Roger SansomThe same only differentAnd here’s another story in the paper about twins! Last week’s feature about fifteen pairs starting primary school in Inverclyde had a…4 min read·Aug 20, 2021----
Roger SansomThe way aheadThere are many times when the way ahead is clear. Those are often times when things around us are tangled, and we long for the clarity of…2 min read·Aug 13, 2021----
Roger SansomA drink first?There is a story — it has been around for hundreds of years — of an actor playing Shakespeare’s malevolent Richard III, with that long…3 min read·Jul 25, 2021----
Roger SansomJames DaleThe Wimbledon season takes me back to other summers, and especially to the men’s final in 1982 between Connors and McEnroe, which I watched…4 min read·Jul 2, 2021----
Roger Sansom“You’re making it up!”Cartoonists have often depicted a performance in progress with a kind of repetiteur’s hood in the centre of the front of the stage (what…4 min read·Jun 14, 2021----
