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Archy and Mehitabel: A One-Man Theatre Experience
On this episode, Patrick talks to publicist Ali Arif about his solo theatre show he’s still performing at the age of 70.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Archy is a cockroach, the reincarnation of a bad poet. His friend, Mehitabel is a down at heel alley cat who claims to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. Their conversations are very funny, Mehitabel gets into all sorts of scrapes and Archy has a jaundiced view of human nature. Every night he crawls out of his hiding place in the apartment owned by ‘Boss’ and types a poem on his typewriter every night about Archy’s life.
- It was written in the 1920s-30s so it has a jazz age feel to it and includes wonderful New York street slang. The language is brilliant, witty and funny.
- When I was a child there used to be huge clouds of butterflies in the summertime, & that doesn’t happen any more except in protected areas. We’re losing so much of the insect population which is affecting the bird population. There’s a while chain of events that occur when we don’t protect even the smallest life forms. Archy has a message to the human race about what we’re doing to ourselves.
- I love the young people who are much more environmentally aware than my generation who squandered a lot of the resources of the planet. What’s fantastic about Archy and Mehitabel is that Don Marquis wrote it nearly 100 years ago. People then were well aware that industrial scale society was already using up the resources of the planet, as did Zola, Dickens, Blake many years before that.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s a funny, satirical view of human nature and its follies.’
‘I play about 20 different characters during the course of the play.’
‘All actors are, in one way or another, show -offs, and this is my show-off show.’
‘Insects will inherit the planet, we are destroying ourselves & turning the planet into a desert.’
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for over 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/
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By Patrick KealeyOn this episode, Patrick talks to publicist Ali Arif about his solo theatre show he’s still performing at the age of 70.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Archy is a cockroach, the reincarnation of a bad poet. His friend, Mehitabel is a down at heel alley cat who claims to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. Their conversations are very funny, Mehitabel gets into all sorts of scrapes and Archy has a jaundiced view of human nature. Every night he crawls out of his hiding place in the apartment owned by ‘Boss’ and types a poem on his typewriter every night about Archy’s life.
- It was written in the 1920s-30s so it has a jazz age feel to it and includes wonderful New York street slang. The language is brilliant, witty and funny.
- When I was a child there used to be huge clouds of butterflies in the summertime, & that doesn’t happen any more except in protected areas. We’re losing so much of the insect population which is affecting the bird population. There’s a while chain of events that occur when we don’t protect even the smallest life forms. Archy has a message to the human race about what we’re doing to ourselves.
- I love the young people who are much more environmentally aware than my generation who squandered a lot of the resources of the planet. What’s fantastic about Archy and Mehitabel is that Don Marquis wrote it nearly 100 years ago. People then were well aware that industrial scale society was already using up the resources of the planet, as did Zola, Dickens, Blake many years before that.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s a funny, satirical view of human nature and its follies.’
‘I play about 20 different characters during the course of the play.’
‘All actors are, in one way or another, show -offs, and this is my show-off show.’
‘Insects will inherit the planet, we are destroying ourselves & turning the planet into a desert.’
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for over 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/