Angst Lesspork

[JulienW]

Thank you, chaps. It wouldn't anything like as good without the support, advice and feedback of the LAMPOONS and wider members of the Society.

What about the narrower members...?
;)

Congrats on the RM inclusion - as I said to Mrs W an issue of the Modeller I might have to fight her for!

[Graeme Dunbar]

Well done on all accounts! The visitors to the show clearly had good taste and I look forward to reading the RM.

[garrywhiting]

My subscription copy of RM January 2013 arrived this morning ( in the shops on the 13 December ).

Angst Lesspork is featured as promised,  the article takes the form of an interview of Hugh, conducted by Steve Flint.

No time to report further, departing for Wimborne at midday for tomorrow's mini event at Colehill.

[Hugh Norwood]

Spring must be in the air - I'm getting creative again.
I have mocked-up a low-relief theatre for Angst.


It fits in behind the Watch House yard. Problem is - is it tall enough? Also - is it obviously a theare (in the "Globe" tradition - or should I say "Ye Dysk")

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[MickT]

I think "Ye Dysk" would be a very suitable name and then leave it for the informed to nod sagely and the uninformed to wonder what on earth (what on flat?) it is meant to be.

Mick

[Graeme Dunbar]

Great work!

I hope we will see plenty of "fly posting" ..... thinks...

Two gentlemen of Pseudopolis
The merry wives of Lancre
The merchant of Genua
Perry Cleese prince of Krull     ....?

[Tigger]

"Ye dysk" is excellent!  ;D  Did the Pratchett one have a name?  I can't remember.  Was there a view of it on the front cover of the book?  I reckon it's about the right size, Hugh.  Any bigger and it might be a bit too imposing.

[Hugh Norwood]

Thanks, chaps. The theatre in Ankh-Morpork is called "The Dysk", so I'll probably need to find an alternative name. There were other theatres in the Shakespearean era than the Globe, but that's such an iconic name, the others aren't so well remembered...

I did think about "The Ankh-Lesspork Arena" as a dig at the new Leeds Arena (spit).

I have quite a few fly-bills around Angst - mostly copies of real ones reduced in size and printed on self-adhesive labels. Also a poster for the world-famous Dwarf music-with-rocks-in band "Iron Midden"
(!)

[Tigger]

And how about that well-known new-wave cookery group - Punk Floyd.  ;D

If the Pratchett one is called 'The Dysk' then I think you'd be ok calling yours 'Ye Dysk'

Or perhaps find a Discworld poet and use 'Ye Royal <<poet's name>>' as in The Royal Shakespere.

[tat2drod]

Should you not name it after the Patrician?

[Hugh Norwood]

Ah - "The Vetinari Clinic"?

[Graeme Dunbar]

Hunting for "theatres in the round" (OK I know it doesn't mean the building is round):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_round

How about "The Nonagon" or some other equally unlikely shape.

Taking it further I'm sure B.S. Johnson could even design a theatre with not only an non integral number of sides but an irrational number.

[DeadHorse]

There is always the O2 to take the mickey out of.
Hows about O09 or perhaps The Orange? :-)

[tat2drod]

Ah - "The Vetinari Clinic"?

;D I like that!

[tat2drod]

Taking it further I'm sure B.S. Johnson could even design a theatre with not only an non integral number of sides but an irrational number.

Points for being able to translate 0.707106781186548... into a definitive fractional statement (easy). Bonus points for 0.866025403784439... (also easy now that you've worked the first one out....).

Ah yes, the joys of A-level Maths circa 1977/8 :-)

Mind you, it takes a particular type of genius to come up with a non-integral number of sides!

What's that you say? Thread drift? Ooops... sorry!