#birnam

[virtualscotland]

A couple of weeks ago we visited the little town of Dunkeld in Perthshire in Scotland - it's a lovely little place and also home to a fantastic bakery by a former Great British Bakeoff contestant! 😂 Dunkeld is probably most famous for it's beautiful nature walks though, in particular The Hermitage walk which takes in the very impressive Black Linn waterfall! 😍 We managed to catch the last of the autumnal beauty before this week's snow came! 😂 Hope you enjoy!

@scotland-forever @scotianostra @scotlandscalling @visitscotland @visitheworld

[shakespearenews]

Macbeth: Death, Bane and Birnam takes place on Saturday 4 May from 14:00-16:00. Visitors will take part in an active theatre-based workshop to explore the connection to the tree in Shakespeare’s Scottish Play. The session will explore some of the choices Shakespeare makes in adapting his Macbeth from the historical accounts available to him, with particular reference to the role Birnam plays in his downfall.

On Sunday 5 May from 10:30-12:30 Fraud and Riot in Dunkeld will examine the political history of the oak and its connection to local legend Alexander “Dundonnachie” Robertson, who played an integral role in the 1868 Dunkeld Bridge Toll Riots. Participants will delve into the archives and explore the figure of Dundonnachie through a factual, local and dramatic lens.

[thatsbelievable]

[quotespile]

Democracy isn’t about everyone voting the exact same way, it’s about whether you agree to go along with the outcome of the vote even if it turns out you’re in the minority. That’s consensus.

Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

[justcyclingstuffs]

favorite moments from the tour 🫶🏻

[christianfriedelfan]

Christian Friedel for Odda Magazine.

[justlettheraincome]

My hand slipped

It's been nearly two weeks now since @azirafellfirst and I watched Macbeth from the front row.

I think Dunsinane might become my favourite word...

[nicht-ganz-allein-sunny]

Politische Memes für die Theaterbubble!

[castillon02]

Wait, so that thing about citrus trees being willing to cross-pollinate with anything. 

Combined with part-dryad!Jaskier whose tree is a lemon tree. 

Combined with leshy!Eskel. 

When life gives you tree monsters, make lemonade. 

[litsnaps]

[clonerightsagenda]

#recently read, Nov 24

Bipolar Bear and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Health Insurance by Kathleen Founds. A graphic novel about dealing with the health care system with a mental illness. Relatable.

This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. A married couple and their friend navigate jealousy on a planet determined to wipe out invaders - including them. *Cool sci-fi concept, metaphor worked well, was hoping for more when the back cover copy includes the phrase 'toxic polycule' but novellas are brief by nature.

The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera. Two Salvadoran sisters are brought together and then separated by the Martínez dictatorship, eventually finding each other again in California.

Honeymoons in Temporary Locations by Ashley Shelby. Speculative vignettes set in a climate-ravaged near future where climate anxiety has taken new, bizarre forms.

Antigonick by Sophokles, trans. Anne Carson. *Definitely an unusual and creative translation. I don't really get the illustrations though.

White Tears by Hari Kunzru. Two white record collectors are haunted by a blues musician whose work they stole. *A disorienting and multilayered commentary on appropriation; I understand the artistic rationale but you spend a lot of time in close first person with a very unpleasant protagonist.

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. More musing than thriller, follows a woman paid to infiltrate an environmental activist group. *This is the third mainstream book in a year to take potshots at environmental activists, and while there's certainly a lot to satirize in activist culture I'm also kind of like. ok. Is the only literary-approved response to the climate crisis sadly smoking a cigarette and then sadly having an affair, and actually doing anything is deserving of mockery? Are you at least getting paid by Shell or are you doing this for free.

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Why am I unreasonably upset about the fact that I can't kill Macbeth? I mean, ✨gender affirmed✨ and all but it's kinda sad 🥺

((Keep your head up King your Birnam wood branch is falling <3))

[mourningmaybells]

The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson / The Exorcist By William Peter Blatty / Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[quotespile]

[She was] wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone.

Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

[thenormalschoolofficial]

they’re huge fans of their first amendment and second amendment rights. which seems like a major red flag except they’re also big fans of the 14th amendment, and sometimes these combine such as the time there was a protest on the abortion clinic in birnam and the counterprotest consisted largely of dr winkler with a shotgun talking about her first amendment right to religiously fire shots at anyone who disturbs the observance of an abortion ritual (this did work btw, after she shot a hole straight through one of the “child murderers you’re going to HELL” signs

nurse walker is from the vague area of paradise tennessee, nurse wheeler is from not-even-god-knows-where kentucky, and nurse winkler is from a mid-20th century dilapidating gold mining town in texas where there’s a crazy amount of local legends and absolutely 0 paranormal creatures. all three women are definitely insane and offputting but not in the “leerily fickle southern belle hospitality” way it’s definitely more of the “I’m sure they would have been perfectly harmless abnormal people had they not learned way too young that bugs that shoot acid don’t get ate”

[christianfriedelfan]

Christian Friedel for Cartier.