Simon McBurney

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    2 Jan 2017

    Listener, grinder of lenses, poet, painter, seer. My Guide. Philosopher. Friend. John Berger left us this morning. Now you are everywhere.

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  2. Mar 27

    ‘And they cannot stop us...’ Today is World Theatre Day... WTF does that mean? As I’ve been appointed 2018 European Ambassador for World Theatre I’ll try to answer that question tonight at UNESCO in Paris with this... message...

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  3. Mar 14

    ‘...a collapsing over-massive star... results in a singularity in space-time’ Stephen Hawking is shooting thru’ space time. He’s everywhere. Simultaneously. We’ll miss his critical insights on black holes... in space, and the one that is this Tory govt.

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  4. Mar 1

    Yes... it is dark... as for the flavour you will have to take Willem Harvey’s word for it...

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  5. Mar 1

    Best review I have ever had...

    Replying to @XantheClay @NethertonNews
    makes the best marmalade I've ever tasted. Incredibly dark and intensely flavoured.
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  6. Jan 10

    For all who read The Dark is Rising with , here is Herne the Hunters extraordinary Mesolithic headdress: via Created from the skull of a red deer stag around 10,000 years ago, it was found at Star Carr in Yorkshire. You can see it

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  7. Jan 2

    For John Berger, now singing everywhere. ‘Birds don’t sing to deceive.. they sing to announce themselves as they are...Compared to the transparency of birdsong, our talk is opaque because we are obliged to search for the truth instead of being it.’ http: //youtu.be/sgulYE0Mbmc

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  8. 17 Dec 2017

    For a raw day, one of my favourite bears.... ‘Art, it would seem, is born like a foal who can walk straight away. The talent to make art accompanies the need for that art; they arrive together.’ John Berger.

    One of the three red cave bears painted close to the ancient entrance of Chauvet Cave more than 30,000 years ago. Photo by Jean Clottes
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  9. 1 Dec 2017

    The great on desert island discs today... you may have missed it... but log on and play back. Touching, inspiring, first up... ‘first we take Manhattan’

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  10. 22 Nov 2017

    The arts are not an add on.... they are not a luxury.... They are not for the few... every word uttered is a creative act.... and just as language builds our conscious selves, music builds our unconscious. To abandon either is self harm. To deprive children of them is abuse.

    A local school that has a rep for being a leader in arts education is axing Drama & Music A-Level. Please share and sign the petition.
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  11. 10 Nov 2017

    Feeling very low at getting up at 4:30am I started reading this thread... still reading... tears running down my cheeks... my belly hurts...

    Accidentally said "Many thank you" to a woman in a shop.
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  12. 13 Oct 2017

    These words from Anne Michaels... telling us... that what has been experienced cannot disappear as if it had never been...

    'Somewhere a woman wakes in the night and knows that no one will ever write a poem for her' Read the full poem at
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  13. 6 Oct 2017

    Ah the mighty Joan Littlewood, constitutionally subversive, abrasively creative, irrepressibly political...

    103 years ago Joan Littlewood was born. words will inspire all the this weekend.
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  14. Retweeted
    28 Sep 2017

    "So I listen softly softly to the ant beat of my heart..." For National Poetry Day: Mahmoud Darwish, trans. John Berger and Rema Hammami

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  15. 25 Sep 2017

    'True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal.' John Berger. Everything I make involves 'translation' ...will talk about this, here.

    Join at on 2 Oct as he discusses the role of translation in international theatre.
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  16. 20 Jul 2017

    Just been in Hetty Pegler's Tump... approx 5000 years old. 'Tump' a small mound or hillock... origin unknown. Suggestions ?

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  17. 17 Jul 2017

    1993. The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol. "My only payment is to watch you rehearse..." he said. Rehearse - from 'herse' meaning... to rake.

    evening on 23 July from 8.30pm. Interview with & our radio play To The Wedding
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  18. 25 Jun 2017

    'Day peep'.... 'First blush'.... Slad. Gloucestershire. 4:30 this morning....

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  19. 19 Jun 2017

    Word of my day 'Rake' - a fashionable/wealthy man of immoral/promiscuous habits. Originally 'Rakehell' - Auden/Stravinsky

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  20. 18 Jun 2017

    Word of the day 'father' from old English 'faeder'... 'one who has care over someone else...'. Mine, with my brother and I. River Cam. 1962.

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  21. 8 Jun 2017

    Oh yeeeees..... The meteorite to wipe out the dinosaurs....

    A great shift of power has taken place from Murdoch & Dacre to social media and the young
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