Practising Piper, Dornoch Show                        By Glyn Satterley

Sandra Oh for Porter

Sandra Oh is a trooper, too: bristling with energy, hyper-engaged, determined to be authentic and squeeze every drop out of life. She doesn’t do many interviews. I suspect their one-sidedness bores her. But conversations, where she can actually learn things about other people, those she likes.

“You’ll have to ask Phoebe Waller-Bridge how my hair became a narrative point in Killing Eve [laughs]. It’s like there’s something free or wild about Eve’s nature that I do think comes out in the hair.”

I wish I was special. You're so fuckin' special.

23.12.19 Manchester

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde

Kurt Cobain Live in Ljubljana, February 27, 1994. New photos from Nirvana’ second to last show.

Li-Young Lee, from “The Hour and What Is Dead”, The City In Which I Love You

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey 

Wandering down a side aisle, I was pursued by a distraught Ophelia, who clutched my sleeve with a cry of “My lord” and, addressing me as if I were Polonius, described Hamlet’s unnerving entry into her chamber. I had to resist the temptation to respond: “Go with me, I will go seek the king.” Later, I was confronted by an Othello who knelt before me as if I were the Duke of Venice and cried: “Most potent, grave and reverend signior”: not the kind of thing I’m used to hearing.

I bet you thought your life would change. But you're sat on a train again. Your memories are sceneries. For things you said but never really meant. You build it too high to say goodbye. Because you're not the same as them.