Category Archives: Edward Lear

The Hoipolloi company will be performing it this autumn. Continue reading →

The Sunday Herald reports on a new stage version of The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Continue reading →

The long-time children’s theatre director and writer has adapted Edward Lear’s quirky poem The Owl And the Pussycat, which he first staged at the Central Theatre, now home to the SiLo Theatre, in 1992. Continue reading →

Khademul Islam reviews the “Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words or Phrases and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical Geographical and Discursive” and sketches a post-colonial reading of Lear’s poem, but does not reccomend it as “It will so spoil the fun!” Continue reading →

A long-tailed blue parrot named after Edward Lear, the author of nonsense verse whose painting of a captive specimen led to the first description of the species Continue reading →

Join the Owl and the Pussy-Cat on their wonderful and magical journey to the Land where the Bong Tree grows. With music, songs and some very funny characters, Tim Bray Productions brings this quirky poem of Edward Lear to life.‘The … Continue reading →

The Fine Art Society, London, will be exhibiting and selling Lear art from 3 to 22 July. There are four watercolours online.

The Best of Modern Dance Because [Martha] Graham saw dance as expressive rather than merely decorative, it freed generations of young dancers to explore a range of emotional and psychological themes that weren’t available in traditional ballet. From April 14 … Continue reading →

At Staten Island Academy, a reason for every rhyme Seventy students took their turn in the spotlight yesterday at Staten Island Academy’s annual poetry recital, sharing the rhymes of their favorite poets…First-place eighth-grade winners were Carey Shuffman, reciting “Host House” … Continue reading →