The Sheila Variations

Seeing Henry V

What a beautiful post.

It was a blessed relief to hear the English language being spoken as it ought, by people with really beautiful voices, who know how to treat it with respect. I know: a couple of actors did mangle their pentameters. I could name them, but I won't. Some jumbled and slurred. A few shouted when they didn't have to, and a few got too over-the-top actory about it for my tastes. Most, though, were like a deluge of something ineffable, something like drugs. It was almost too intense. And I started getting that thing again, where the words float across my mind, visible.

Lovely. I know just what she means.