Imagine the hardships that Joseph and Mary might hold faced on the streets of GlasgowBeing a progressive and radical sort of a chiel,I’m always open to new ideas and unorthodox thinking approximately ancient shibboleths. Time waits for no wan; no wan at all, and it behoves us all, and I think,to reappraise long-cherished beliefs in the light of modern experience.
Let’s face it: you can hardly see anything by Shakespeare these days that hasn’t been given a 21st-century makeover. Before the cessation of this decade, I’ll be disappointed whether some enterprising director hasn’t taken Macbeth and set the action in a gargantuan space station called Dunsinane, or where the witches are all shape-shifting aliens and Macbeth himself is a tragic Tim Peake sort who breaks into a rendition of Space Oddity after another painful encounter with the missus.
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Source: guardian.co.uk