Our Imagination

Each element—Imagination and Thought—carries its unique weight and significance, yet it is their equilibrium that captures the dysfunctionality of human narrative.

Without imagination there is no civilisation. Without thought there is no foundation for the imagination.

A play written for a King (James I of England) about a man unfit for kingship.

William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth has all the ingredients of a summer blockbuster: a war veteran gone rogue, a love story gone bad, pyrotechnics, political assassination, blood soaked horror, psychological disturbance, carnage and massacre. Throw in the Supernatural and the stage is set for an epic battle between the forces for good and evil.

Macbeth Unpacked explores the ideas contained within Macbeth: ambition, what it is to be a man, the nature of tyranny, the nature of evil, toxic relationships, truth, lies, the spin of equivocation and the rendition of the single state of man: mind, body and soul, broken on the back of the fault line of all consuming ambition.

Macbeth Unpacked is suitable for GCSE and Advanced Level students, and those who wish to extend their understanding of one of Shakespeare’s best known works.

“…Sat diving doesn’t require the diver to be able to swim since you are simply doing what any worker on a construction site does, only you’re doing it underwater while dragging behind you around 20 to 90 feet of tightly bound high pressure hoses – which have the ductility and elasticity of cucumber and the drag co-efficient of an empty wallet.”

Sports Divers do it for fun, Commercial Divers do it for money. Sports Divers can choose when to get wet. Commercial Divers get told when to get dressed in.

Unlike sports divers, commercial divers are called to dive at any time. Weather and circumstances are not inhibitive. Divers were expected to go about their diving business for as long as the vessel could maintain itself on station. Of course this was back in the days before Health and Safety had been invented.

“…In a place not far away from here, in fact, just around the corner from where you live, there lives the ageless weather machine…It’s as finally balanced as a sweet-shops scales, or a feather on a seagull’s tail. It’s more powerful than the passage of time, or the fragility of a fox’s daydream stare.”

Looking out through the cloud weather windows, Walter caught glimpses of the mountains as they began to fill the sky even though, snow capped they were still some distance away. To his right, an older cumulus nimbus appeared to be having engine trouble as it lost its navigational intergity as the sprites; sparkling and flashing, fought to help the cumulus nimbus gain height. The onboard droplet teams were bailing out in a series of summer squalls as they cascaded and hang-glided to the ocean below.