Tag: plays

“Jersey Shore Gone Wilde”

Characters from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest perform transcripts from The Jersey Shore,  showing an amazing continuity in dandyism society life in-fighting and the importance of trivial comedy for serious people from Wilde’s time to today. (Thanks, Mark!)

RIP, John Neville

Actor John Neville has died. Gutter readers might be most familiar with his work in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of  Baron Munchausen and in The X-Files.  According to the Guardian’s obituary, he was seen as a successor to John Gielgud and performed Alfie on the British stage before […]

RIP, Edward Hardwicke

British actor Edward Hardwicke has died.  He is best known as Dr. John Watson in the 1980s and 1990s BBC Sherlock Holmes series co-starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes.The Guardian has an obituary and here is a video of Hardwicke and Brett interviewed about playing Watson and Holmes.