Andy Evans wrote:
Where all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, one looks
for weeds in the garden......................

There were no weeds on that sunny afternoon when I saw Cobus Rossouw
play Tartuffe. It must have been the middle or later fifties. It was
not the best hall in a sleepy country town and the audience was sparse.
Yet it shaped a good part of my life and much about my art, for Rossouw
was a fabulously strong actor, and character became the centrepiece of
my painting and writing. One cannot help but wonder if Moliere, via
Rossouw, didn't influence my sunny outlook.

There are some wonderful films with Rossouw extant, unfortunately in
Afrikaans. Die Kandidaat is superb, if you can get a copy with
subtitles.

Andre Jute

Andre Jute wrote:

Andy Evans wrote:

Where all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, one looks
for weeds in the garden......................


There were no weeds on that sunny afternoon when I saw Cobus Rossouw
play Tartuffe. It must have been the middle or later fifties. It was
not the best hall in a sleepy country town and the audience was sparse.
Yet it shaped a good part of my life and much about my art, for Rossouw
was a fabulously strong actor, and character became the centrepiece of
my painting and writing. One cannot help but wonder if Moliere, via
Rossouw, didn't influence my sunny outlook.

How different things would have been had you based your life on Pangloss rather
than Tartuffe.

--
Eiron

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent - Tom Stoppard.