The Song Of Lunch

I got around to The Song Of Lunch this evening, some sixteen days after the nation watched it, thanks to wondrous i-player. Ah, it was a sumptuous treat with the fabulous pairing of Rickman & Thompson, slipping easily into the required roles: old flames, out for lunch.

Greg Wise (Producer) commented that,

..we, as the audience, should forget that this is a poem, until a rhyming couplet suddenly jumps out at us - above all, we should be taken on a wonderful journey, surrounded by words: words seamlessly moving from voice-over narration into dialogue, back into narration.

We should wallow in a sea of words: hear them, taste them, smell them.

And so we do. There was some beautiful phrasing & imagery in Reid's poem which prompted me to smile. Makes me partly want to go off & explore the text and yet the dramatisation of the poem, Rickman's voiceover brought the poem to life so beautifully, restoring written word to spoken song. Maybe if we shout loud enough, there'll be a DVD to follow suit, although there are fragments on youtube for now.