CURRENT MISSION

My passion is live theatre - though I have to put on a number of 'pot-boilers' my prefered style - constantly trying to develop - lies between Grotowski, Arianne Mnouchkine and Peter Brook

ABOUT ME

elderly,(physically) hopefully not in mind-set. Still curious about this shrinking world. Very conscious of our present gross footprint. Find electronic gadgetry a bit daunting in spite of scientific background (medicine)but now spent most of my life in the Arts. Theatre is & has been my all-consuming passion (and work)and certain forms of contemporary dance. I don't suffer fools gladly; detest snobbery, pretentions & affectations. Glad to leave England's class-consciousness well behind. I think I'm a loyal, reliable friend. I can be irascible at times, moody, despairing...but not for long. I can be sentimental at times though I hate it in the arts! - Why I don't like so many American films. Certainly to left of centre. I enjoy my work as (live)theatre director so don't spend as much time as I should in the garden. I have a little dog to which I'm very attached. I still love discovering new parts of this great land of Australia, by car, when I get the time.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to move with the times & not stay in one spot or look back with nostalgia at the 'good old days'. Struggle for a more rational world. Promote fair-play.
Combat the ignorance (seemingly on the increase) that keeps trying to take us all back to the Middle Ages.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None - yet!

Interests

Mainly the arts: music, painting sculpture, architecture, history, natural history programs on TV also thrillers. Trying to grow roses in the tropics and also my own vanilla pods. Films (though few from USA)

• dogs
• arts
• architecture
• dancing
• running
• gardening
• movies
• tv
• painting
• music
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Passolini,Felini,Kubrick, Baz Luhrman Tarantino.
Music: not a lot since The Incredible String Band, Weather Report, earlier Bob Dylan. Classical music mainly, esp. chamber music but also Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Schonberg
Books by Arandathi Roy, Suetonius, Velikovski, Gore Vidal, Bill Bryson, Simon Winchester.
I devour the Guardian Weekly & the London Review of Books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hosted the Beatles and Yoko Ono for a whole day and getting to know them while they were doing a photo-shoot in a small theatre I was running in London

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