British Council is organising a Celebrate Scotland month from 15 August to 16 September 2005 with plenty of exciting stuff happening.
Theatre Babel will be performing Macbeth at the KL Performing Arts Centre and you will also be able to catch the Macbeth in the Shadows Wayang Kulit performances.
I'm involved with the library displays and readings from selected Scottish authors’ works at MPH Bookstore, 1-Utama Shopping Centre on Sept 3rd. It should be fun!
There's more ... much more ... screening of a Scottish film, storytelling, sonnet writing for schoolkids, bagpipes ...
And there's an online competition where you stand to win a trip to Scotland and other prizes. It's all on the website. Go take a peek! .
no wonder there was a guy from the British Council at my office yesterday, walking around in a kilt.
ReplyDeleteYes! Wasn't he cute! Perhaps you'd like to join in the spirit of things and wear one too? (You can't look any odder that you did in that RINGU-film!)
ReplyDeleteWow, Jordan, am honoured to meet a real Macbeth!
ReplyDeleteCelebrating Scotland :
ReplyDeleteLament For A Lost Dinner Ticket
(Margaret Hamilton)
See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pitituma
Pokit an she pititiny
Washnmachine
See thou burnty
Up wherra firewiz
Ma mammy says Am no tellnyagain
No'y playnit
A jist wen'y eatma
Pokacrisps furma dinner
Nabigwoffldoon
The wummin sed Aver near
Clapsd
Jistur heednur
Wee wellies sticknoot
They sed Wot heppind?
Nme'nma belly
Na bedna hospital
A sed A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine
They sed Ees thees chaild ebslootly
Non verbal?
A sed MA BUMSAIR
Nwen'y sleep
You can actually hear it at
http://www.assets.scotcit.ac.uk/cnl3/lament1.htm
That's the coolest accent ever :)
It's wonderful! Thanks so much, Porty.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. Now can you _please_ tell me what it means ? :)
ReplyDeleteIt suddenly occured to me.. why Macbeth ? why not Rob Roy ? or Braveheart ?
ReplyDeleteI dinnae ken what it means Porty, but it sounds good when you read it aloud inna Glasgey accent.
ReplyDeleteYes, we should do Shakesperare's Rob Roy shouldn't we?
well if Shakespeare did Rob Roy I didn't know about it :P was referring to the many plays that were written on him (not literally, of course, erm.)
ReplyDeleteAs to porty's poem - my Scottish friend translated this for me (Thanks Helen!):
ReplyDeleteMy mother says she’s not telling me again and thinks I’m playing the fool.
I just went to eat my bag of crisps for my dinner (because he had lost his dinner ticket) and a big wall fell down.
The woman who saw it said she nearly collapsed because all she could see was just my head and my small Wellington boots sticking out.
Everyone asked what happened.
I was lying on my stomach on a bed in the hospital.
I said I put it in my pocket and she put it in the washing machine.
They said I wasn’t making sense.
I said my bottom was sore and then I went to sleep.