✨ Treasure Hoard: The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond
Imagine all of the lessons absorbed within those walls over the centuries - audiences encountering the hubris of Macbeth, the crumbling pride of Ozymandias..
Imagine all of the lessons absorbed within those walls over the centuries - audiences encountering the hubris of Macbeth, the crumbling pride of Ozymandias..
For a moment, the world stopped feeling closed to me. The contract with the present felt renewed. And I found myself thinking - with unusual clarity - that I will never give up on this world while places like this, and the people capable of making them, still exist within it.
In the midst of Richmond I found an invincible joy in the accumulation of the past within the honeycombed streets.
The climb to the castle heights takes me from the market's hustle and bustle to the whistle of the wind through the ramparts. With every metre gained in height, the clamour below gradually evaporates.
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