🎭 Staging History
🏞️ Midsomer Murders & Englishness
🧩 Reminding the Past • Inspiring the Future
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... and I'm currently writing a book about the special Midsomer atmosphere.
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... and I'm currently writing a book about the special Midsomer atmosphere.
If you know anyone who I should follow or who should follow me, please let me know or just share this post. I'd love to make some connections here! Take care, Petra
I'm guessing most of you are familiar with Midsomer Murders. I'd say the TV series, and maybe even the books and the stage play.
MM combines everything: history, Englishness, cultural heritage, and, more recently, theatre. I collect and analyse everything, ...
I'm guessing most of you are familiar with Midsomer Murders. I'd say the TV series, and maybe even the books and the stage play.
MM combines everything: history, Englishness, cultural heritage, and, more recently, theatre. I collect and analyse everything, ...
However, I'm not that easy to pin down: I studied cultural history and am now somewhere at the intersection of history, Englishness (landscape = English identity), heritage, theatre and, above all, the question of how a can be staged to bring it to life.
Midsomer Murders is my case study.
However, I'm not that easy to pin down: I studied cultural history and am now somewhere at the intersection of history, Englishness (landscape = English identity), heritage, theatre and, above all, the question of how a can be staged to bring it to life.
Midsomer Murders is my case study.
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Subtle, well-paced direction and staging, sensitive to tone and atmosphere, and that unmistakable English humour – Midsomer Murders on Stage perfectly captures the tone of Graham's world as I imagined it while reading the book.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Subtle, well-paced direction and staging, sensitive to tone and atmosphere, and that unmistakable English humour – Midsomer Murders on Stage perfectly captures the tone of Graham's world as I imagined it while reading the book.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
A spot-on cast brought Midsomer to life: Daniel Casey as DCI Barnaby, James Bradwell as Sgt Troy, and Julie Legrand, Nathalie Barclay, Chandrika Chevli, John Dougall, Rupert Sadler, Chris Agha and Rhian Crowley-McLean in multiple roles as residents of Badger‘s Drift.
A spot-on cast brought Midsomer to life: Daniel Casey as DCI Barnaby, James Bradwell as Sgt Troy, and Julie Legrand, Nathalie Barclay, Chandrika Chevli, John Dougall, Rupert Sadler, Chris Agha and Rhian Crowley-McLean in multiple roles as residents of Badger‘s Drift.