It's all in the preparation

Projects, like shows, rely on research and planning to avoid meandering away from the subject, but with a project like the Art of Conversation, such meanderings are integral and interesting. AoC aims to explore the gendered nature of words, language and conversation, and often the best place to begin excavating this is via the media. So, listening to the news on the radio last night I was reminded of the saying, "Loose lips sink ships" as William Hague was criticised for putting Libyan lives at risk by declaring early on in the revolution (or rebellion, depending on your POV - and there's another meander worth coming back to at some point) that Gaddafi got the hell out of Dodge and fled to Venezuela. It's not yet clear why he chose the jump the gun in this way, but it reminded me of Hague's boastful history - his looseness with language and the facts. Do you remember him claiming that as a boy he used to regularly drink 14 pints? I do, and as I pondered this again yesterday, meandering away from Libya, I tried to think of a comparably ridiculous boast that a female politician might have made about their personal history but couldn't. Can you?

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Is the opposite of the male boast the painful silence that occurs after a good drubbing? You'd certainly think so in the face of Man. United's non-response to losing 3-1 to Liverpool at Anfield over the weekend.

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This post was written by Amanda and in no way reflects the opinions of either Pigeon Theatre or the greenroom.