#She Stoops to Conquer

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Greta Scacchi, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds and Sabrina Bartlett in She Stoops to Conquer at the Orange Tree Theatre

[thatsouthernstate]

orangetreetheater: A beautiful new image has just landed for SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, with Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds 🎄 👀 Stay tuned! We've got some exciting news coming your way... Join our mailing list to be the first to hear, link in bio👆 📷: Rebecca Need-Menear

[literatileoipiano]

It's finally happening tomorrow.

Participating in a student exchange programme has always been on my 'College Life' bucket list. I prepared my clothes for tomorrow and hung it to keep it ready to go; it was then that a pang of nostalgia hit me. I used to hang a white shirt in the same position when I was in school (as a part of my school uniform). Never wore one after I left school. But here I am, playing the character of Charles Marlow and hanging my (kinda) school uniform now. Just how fast the night changes!

Gotta practice my lines now.

[jamiemarsters]

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[missanthropicprinciple]

Can I go back in time and watch She Stoops to Conquer directed by Douglas Hughes at the Guthrie in 1996?

K thanx bye

[baynton]

She Stoops to Conquer (with Mat Baynton) on BBC Radio 3

it aired! yay! listen here on bbc sounds if you’re in the uk/a compatible country.

if you’re not, my google drive link is here.

[travsd]

A Groatsworth of Goldsmith

It is characteristic of this specialized age that appreciation for Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) seems to have declined over the past century. And yet it is the very eclecticism of his undertakings that make Goldsmith extraordinary: playwright, novelist, poet, historian, biographer, natural historian, and (many believe) also a children’s author. Like Smollett, Goldsmith was trained to be a…

[denimbex1986]

“I don’t remember ever not thinking I was going to be an actor,” says Cush Jumbo. We’re meeting to talk about her new role in Shakespeare’s legendary psychological drama, Macbeth, in which she will star opposite David Tennant. Has she always wanted to act, I ask? “This is just what I do – I’m not that good at anything else.”

When it comes to Jumbo, “good” is an understatement. The star of The Good Wife has played many formidable stage roles, appearing in Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking, all-female version of Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012, She Stoops to Conquer in the same year at the Olivier Theatre, and opposite Hugh Jackman in The River on Broadway – to name a few. A personal favourite for me was her star turn as the titular role in Hamlet at the Young Vic two years ago, which stopped me in my tracks.

But it was when Jumbo decided to not just act but create – writing and starring in Josephine and I, a play about the jazz sensation, political activist and international icon Josephine Baker, in 2015 – that she garnered real, critical acclaim. Josephine and I catapulted Jumbo towards scoring the iconic, whip-smart female role she has now undertaken: Lady Macbeth.

Despite being offered the role several times, Jumbo didn’t feel the set-up was right – until now. “One of the biggest things I’ve learnt over the last 10 years is: don’t play opposite a man, if you’re not sure whether that man is going to mess with your mental health,” she tells me. But the right timing, the safety net of acting opposite Tennant (a close friend) and the vision of director Max Webster has been a magic combination, giving her the confidence to take on this venerated role.

In this production, Webster has chosen to put the marriage at the centre. “He believes Macbeth is a play about a couple suffering with psychosis after losing a child,” says Jumbo. In order to create a sense of intimacy, the production employs the use of headphones, through which the audience experiences binaural technology that creates an intense and unnerving 3D sound world. I’m excited to see how this technique might help to amplify the sense of inner monologue that Shakespeare is so good at creating.

Lady Macbeth and Jumbo are alike in one sense, at least: they both want to be heard. You could call this serendipity, but Jumbo thinks of it more as destiny: “It’s quite amazing how the universe gives you things when you need them,” she says. Jumbo’s ambition with her performance is to change perspectives of this much-maligned anti-heroine. “Her name has been dragged through the mud,” she explains. “If she were male, she would’ve been seen as a flawed hero.” She’s determined to give Lady Macbeth’s character new meaning, and to prove her as one of Shakespeare’s smartest creations.

Jumbo is looking forward to a busy period, Macbeth aside. She has demonstrated her entrepreneurial spirit with Criminal Record, an eight-episode crime thriller that she pitched, co-executively produced and will star in, which will debut on Apple TV+ in January 2024. It’s an exciting time for the actor – and there’s no doubt that, both on stage and screen, Jumbo is one to watch.'

[carpe-mamilia]

Mathew Baynton and Hugh Skinner star in a free adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century comedy of class and clever women by Barunka O’Shaughnessy. First broadcast 07.05.23, available on iplayer for 29 days.

[knox-nem]

I truly feel too much, to write it all critically on my papers.

[odk-2]

Ruth Anderson, Bikini She Stoops to Conquer Color Transparency, 1970 by Bunny Yeager

[thatsouthernstate]

orangetreetheater: First look at SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, currently in rehearsals. Our Christmas comedy by Oliver Goldsmith and directed by OT Artistic Director Tom Littler with Francesca Ellis, opens previews at the Orange Tree on 18 November. Featuring our wonderful cast: Sabrina Bartlett, Richard Derrington, Freddie Fox, David Horovitch, Guy Hughes, Robert Mountford, Tanya Reynolds and Greta Scacchi. Tickets going fast; book now at orangetreetheatre.co.uk 📷 Marc Brenner

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

[arbitrary line break because tumble hates lists apparently]

-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew

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[cajon-desastre]

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer

[beyralxoxo]

{Amor Omnia Vincit-Lucius Verus Aurelius}

SUMMARY: Caracalla and Geta are turning their heads towards India, and Indian Crowns know better than to anger the Rome's Wolfs. [PROLOGUE]

PAIRING: Lucius Verus Aurelius x South Indian OC

WORD COUNT: 445

WARNINGS: none for now :}

Amor Omnia Vincit: Love Conquers All

Sixteen years after the death of Marcus Aurelius, his ,,dream of Rome” has been forgotten.

Under the tyranny of the twin emperors Geta and Caracalla, corruption flourishes.

Their ruthless agression spreads like plague throughout the empire.

The fall of the great city is imminent.

Only the hopes of those who still dream remain…

After the Roman Empire secured its grip on Numidia, the ambitions of Geta and Caracalla turned eastward—toward the fabled riches of India. The Indian crowns, wary of the empire's insatiable hunger for conquest, sought to avoid plunging their lands into the brutal chaos of Roman warfare. They knew Rome's reputation too well.

In their councils, the kings deliberated fiercely over how to preserve their sovereignty without sacrificing their dignity. Proposals of tribute, alliances, and trade flowed freely, but one whispered suggestion sent ripples through the court—a peace offering in the form of a woman.

The notion, though pragmatic, was met with outrage. For many, it was unthinkable to barter their daughters for diplomacy. "Would we stoop so low as to hand over our blood to the wolves of Rome?" some declared. Others nodded grimly, believing such a gesture would tarnish their honor forever.

But amidst the uproar, one voice rose above the clamor. A minor king, neither celebrated nor scorned, stepped forward. His eyes held the weight of a decision already made. He offered a name—Tillotama, his daughter born of a courtesan.

Though she was a child of no official union, he spoke of her beauty and her wit, gifts that would surely intrigue even Rome's ruthless rulers. With a mixture of resignation and pride, he declared her the one worthy to stand as a bridge between empires.

And so, Tillotama's fate was sealed—not by her own hand, but by a desperate king seeking to save his people from the jaws of conquest. Little did they know, the daughter of a courtesan would carry the power to shape the destinies of both worlds.

Yet, fate had far more in store for Tillotama. For with her, a protector would rise—a man unlike any other. He was born with fury coursing through his veins, his soul a tempest of rage that no mortal force could calm. His thirst for vengeance was insatiable, a fire that no thousand armies could quench.

He was a godless creature, a storm in human form. Yet what happens when such a man meets his destiny in her eyes? What if, in the presence of this woman, his unyielding wrath is eclipsed by something he cannot fight?

What if, in that fateful moment, the godless man falls to his knees—not in surrender to kings, nor to gods, but to her?