Free Thinking : The city
From Liverpool, playwright Esther Wilson
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City on the Edge… of the Future.
This is the first of my guest 'blogger'. Jonathan Raisin is a composer/musician/writer. He's presently working on a number of projects in development and has very kindly agreed to stick his neck out in the name of free thinking.
I hope he gets your juices flowing.
.............................................................Where to begin? What is worth talking about at a time when everything can be spoken of and nothing in the world remains unread?
Well, here in Liverpool there is an interesting thing going on just now. Interesting as in the old and over used Chinese curse; “may you live in interesting times”. (But if ever there was a time for an unreliable cliché then now is that time. Here’s another one. “To joke about the present is a sign that we take seriously the past”. You like it? Great. I made it up!)
What does progress mean?
As a playwright I’m smack bang in the middle of research for a piece called The Quiet Little Englishman. Basically it’s about a bloke called George Groves who was born in St Helens in 1901, graduated from Liverpool University with a degree in Engineering then in 1923 sailed off to America to change the face of cinematic history. Didn’t you know? No. Neither did I. Which is one of the things that interested me about the story. (He was the world’s first sound mixer but sound men didn’t rate a mention until years later)
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