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I’ve added some recent scans from various magazines and newspapers in the UK. Many thanks to Lorna and MarieKelly for the following scans. Enjoy!

001 x Daily Telegraph | September 11, 2010
001 x Times: Playlist | September 25th – October 1st
003 x Sunday Telegraph’s Seven Magazine | September 26, 2010
002 x SFX Magazine | November

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

Just read them all ;)

Thank you~

P.S. Reading about this war stuff is so eerie ;0

September 26th, 2010

Helaine said:

Thanks for the scans, Steph! Really nice! :)

September 26th, 2010

Nightshade said:

Lovely, thank you so much, Steph :-)

@bleep, why do you find it eerie? I know it is very moving and thought-provoking. I find it all fascinating, my grandfather was in the trenches for most of WW1 and was gassed, although thankfully he came home in one piece. He also came back to England on leave at least once because my mum was born in 1916, in the middle of the war.

September 26th, 2010

Galene said:

Thanks for the scans, Stephanie
Very interesting!

About Birdsong
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1602660/board/thread/165130035?d=171214319&p=16#171214319
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1602660/board/thread/165130035?d=171216511&p=16#171216511

” He is young and confronted with such injustice and suffering all the time….and his response to that seems to be a lot of screaming. His voice is going out the window on this play if he isn’t careful. Next stop laryngitis”

Poor Ben…

September 26th, 2010

Galene said:

Oh, sorry

September 26th, 2010

Stephanie said:

Sorry about that Galene! Sometimes comments with links in them have to be approved by an admin before being made public. It helps keep spam off the site. I just let your comment through! :)

September 26th, 2010

Galene said:

Stephanie, OK :)
I want to ask a question. What does exactly mean “the spirit that helped paint most of the globe pink” ( from magazine article)?

September 26th, 2010

Helaine said:

I didn’t understand it either… Which is not a surprise, since I’m not a native speaker and I don’t understand many idioms and phrases… I’m always asking for Google’s help! =P

About this same article, I don’t know if it’s just me and my myopia, but I didn’t recognize Ben on that first picture! Except for the chin dimple, he seems totally different to me! If it weren’t in an article about Birdsong, I would never tell it was Ben on that picture… o.o

September 26th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

To: Nightshade,
By ‘eerie’, I meant no disrespect to any war veteran. Discovering life fascinates me, whereas millions of people dying brutal deaths does not. Although, I agree with you that it is moving and thought-provoking and also important and very necessary to know about these things. I guess it is eerie in the way that visiting a crime scene, or a place where a fire has happened, is; Or like visiting a grevesite.

September 26th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

correction: grAvesite

September 26th, 2010

Nicole L. said:

i speak english and i didn’t quite understand the phrase “the spirit that helped paint most of the globe pink” either…what does it mean?? lol

September 27th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

yeah…I don’t know what “painting the globe pink” means but, it sounds pretty! hihi ;D

September 27th, 2010

Galene said:

One more review from a theater-goer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1602660/board/thread/165130035?d=171289190&p=17#171289190
Spoilers!

September 27th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

OMGalene! That was the most HILARIOUS review I have ever read!!! LOL- literally! Aww, and Ben sounds so funny and CUTE!!! Although, all that about him getting all worked up and straining his voice also sounded…hot! In addition to Cute! I would like to have been there to hear him being so emotional and “screaming” x)

I think that was a pretty fair review! ;) I agree with her about describing someone who is numb and resigned from seeing terrible things out of their controll.

>Now back to Benj’s cuteness… the tripping part and flashing his $million dollar$ smile… ;) ahh Ben…

September 27th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

About him being good at introspection- well, he grew up doing that now, didn’t he? ;)

September 27th, 2010

Galene said:

More and more new pics! It`s fascinating! :)

September 27th, 2010

Nightshade said:

@Bleep! I know you weren’t being at all disrespectful! I was just intrigued by what you meant as “eerie” at reading war stuff! :-)

@Galene, thanks for the links – so interesting to read, lets hope we keep getting more reviews from actual people who were there, more fun than the press reviews in my opinion.

And … I have absolutely no idea what “the spirit that helped paint most of the globe pink” means either! Never heard it before.

September 27th, 2010

Helaine said:

Steph, Steph! Have you seen this picture?? (from VDT)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=559267&id=153303528017748&ref=fbx_album

September 27th, 2010

KeyKey2DaBenz (aka bleep!) said:

@ Nightshade: I’m glad you didn’t find me disrespectful ;) & Ooh! You were intrigued by my “eeriness”? Hihi ;) well that’s cool!

Ahhhh…I am melting over every new rehearsal pic ;). I like that shadow under his eye, like he’s squinting, in the new 5th picture. His under eyes are so cute! :)

September 27th, 2010

Galene said:

@ Nightshade, I`ve just read about your trip to London and seeing Ben. And I terribly envy you now (in good sense :) )

And this black leather jacket again! I suppose Ben even sleeps wearing it :)

September 28th, 2010

Stephanie said:

Thank you Helaine! I’ve gone ahead and saved the photo for now. I’ll add it to the gallery later on .. :)

September 28th, 2010

Helaine said:

Birdsong reviews!

http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8831285714028&ref=london&preview=Y

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/sep/29/birdsong-review-michael-billington?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Now I can’t wait for more reviews and, obviously, pictures from the after party! :D

September 28th, 2010