Quartermaine's Terms
Jun. 10th, 2022 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI continue to dip into the archive at Mick's Nostalgia Channel.
Yesterday evening I watched Quartermaine's Terms (1987) a TV version of Simon Gray's tragi-comedy. It has John Gielgud in a role created on stage by Robin Bailey- which is an example of trading up, I think- and Edward Fox (who I find I'm coming to love) as kindly, impossibly other-worldly Quartermaine. Quartermaine's Terms is teetering on the edge of becoming a "classic"- by which I mean that it keeps on being revived. A recent production starred Rowan Atkinson in the title role- and why not?
The picture quality is lousy, but I find I don't mind. I'm here to watch some first rate actors perform a first rate script (and especially watch Gielgud be Gielgud) and not to marvel at the wrinkles on their faces and the folds in their clothes.
Yesterday evening I watched Quartermaine's Terms (1987) a TV version of Simon Gray's tragi-comedy. It has John Gielgud in a role created on stage by Robin Bailey- which is an example of trading up, I think- and Edward Fox (who I find I'm coming to love) as kindly, impossibly other-worldly Quartermaine. Quartermaine's Terms is teetering on the edge of becoming a "classic"- by which I mean that it keeps on being revived. A recent production starred Rowan Atkinson in the title role- and why not?
The picture quality is lousy, but I find I don't mind. I'm here to watch some first rate actors perform a first rate script (and especially watch Gielgud be Gielgud) and not to marvel at the wrinkles on their faces and the folds in their clothes.
