elcome to in the present day’s Londoner’s Diary. We’ll be bringing you our favorite Shakespeare puns as William Shakespeare turns into the second UK citizen to get the coronavirus vaccine. Afterward we’ll hear from Aaron Sorkin, Nina Sosanya and the plight of musicians in a doable no deal Brexit.
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Nina reveals star high quality for RSC
Nina Sosanya recollects the pitfalls of auditioning as a younger actor. The W1A and His Darkish Supplies star was working the telephones at a charity when she needed to come out to purchase a skirt for an audition with the Royal Shakespeare Firm. The audition went properly, however when she got here again to the workplace, her colleague requested her: “What’s that on the again of your skirt?” Sosanya tells Jay Rayner’s Out for Lunch podcast: “There was an enormous crimson star saying £5.99!”
Writers trumped by The Donald
Donald Trump will likely be laborious for chroniclers to get a grip on even when he leaves workplace, thinks US screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Trump just isn’t a “believable” character as a result of “there’s one thing not human about him”, Sorkin informed a Guardian Stay on-line occasion final evening. Suggesting writers may discover it simpler to border The Donald “offstage” in information footage moderately than portraying him instantly, the West Wing creator mentioned: “There isn’t any such factor as an attention-grabbing character who has no conscience. If he doesn’t wrestle with something, if nothing weighs on him, what are you hanging your hat on?”
A lot ado about vaccine recipient
Information that one William Shakespeare was the second Brit to be given a Covid vaccine set off a storm of puns on-line. “Is that this a jabber I see earlier than me?” requested John Sturgis, whereas Richard Thackray went with: “Two doses, each alike in amount.” Better of the bunch was the wag who named it “the taming of the flu”. However one Twitter person requested an apposite query: “In case your title is Shakespeare, what on earth would possess you to name your son William? A child by some other title…”
