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Saturday, September 14, 2002
The Tomfoolery Show
The Tomfoolery Show was a short-lived collection of animated shorts based on the nonsensical poetry of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, with occasional nods to other literary classics by Ogden Nash and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Yesterdayland Saturday Morning TV
ONE OF those bizarre half-remembered cartoons produced by Rankin/Bass in conjunction with British cartoon studio Halas And Batchelo, the humour on the show centered around riddles, puns, and nonsensical jokes, with the titular Tom Foolery, a long-legged ball thing, a Yongy Bongy Bo, a chicken being hit by a jigsaw piece, all based around the poems of Edward Lear with characters such as Fastidious Fish and The Ubiquitous Umbrella Maker. "We're putting on the nonsense, The funny stuff and nonsense, With riddles, jokes and silly things, It's all Tomfoolery...."
TV Cream [search for 'tomfoolery', you can also download a couple of themes from the program in mp3.]
posted by Marco Graziosi Saturday, September 14, 2002
Friday, September 06, 2002
Pea Green Boat
"This is my first mid-30s, pretentious one-man show," says Stewart Lee in an apologetic intro to Pea Green Boat. This isn't stand-up, he warns, so prepare not to laugh. The preamble promises some daring dramatic experiment. In fact, this solo delve into Edward Lear's most famous poem is sweet and very funny - but doesn't deviate greatly from the stand-up with which Lee made his name.
Guardian Unlimited | Arts reviews | Stewart Lee, Traverse, Edinburgh (23 August 2002)
posted by Marco Graziosi Friday, September 06, 2002
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
An Edward Lear Society?, An e-mail from Vivien Noakes
Dear Learites,
Kenneth Oultram, who lives in Cheshire, is hoping to organise an Edward Lear Society, since none exists. He has called an inaugural meeting this Saturday, September 7th, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, but has had a very disappointing response, largely I think because almost no one knows about it.
The Walker currently has a wonderful exhibition about Lord Derby’s menagerie and Lear’s involvement with it – ‘The Earl and the Pussy-cat’ – which closes this weekend (it has an excellent catalogue), and I understand that the plan is that anyone interested should meet at the Gallery at noon. There will then be a tour of the exhibition conducted by the organiser – Dr Clem Fisher – followed by lunch. In the afternoon it is scheduled that Robert Peck – who is writing about Lear’s birds – will give a lecture, but I am not sure what the situation is about this if the turnout is very low.
I have spoken to Mr Oultram this evening and said that I would post news of this on the website. If anyone is interested in speaking to him, either about Saturday’s programme or about founding a Society at some point, his home number is 01606 781 731 and his work number is 01606 891 303.
Best wishes,
Vivien
posted by Marco Graziosi Wednesday, September 04, 2002
icLiverpool - The Earl and the Pussycat
FANS of limerick-creator Edward Lear have a final chance to view a fascinating exhibition charting his links with a Victorian earl.
icLiverpool (30 August 2002)
posted by Marco Graziosi Wednesday, September 04, 2002
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