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Ged Ladd writes…
The play Biography by Max Frisch was top of my reading pile for Day Three of the first Lord’s test of the 2021 summer, which I had planned/booked to spend in the new Warner Stand.
In 1995 I saw a production of Biography with Daisy & The Duchess at The Questor’s. It is a post-modern play about determinism. I one-clicked a copy of the play text when retroblogging that 1995 experience 25 years later.
Even when it became obvious that there would be little or no cricket due to rain, I remained determined to read the Biography play text that day. Exercising my free will, I was…or was I?
I also determined to utilise the day:
- Writing pieces for King Cricket
- Going to the gym
- Eating my picnic bagel, finger salad and fruit
I am delighted to report that I succeeded in doing all of those things. I even managed to join in some bants on my Day One Match Report, which included a strangely prescient comment by KC about post-modern match reports.
How did KC know that I was reading and about to report on an über-post-modern play? Was my Day Three activity predetermined?
In truth, I am rather grateful that I got to read Biography at home in the absence of cricket rather than at the cricket. It is quite a complex play, which deserves contemplative thought and thus probably doesn’t lend itself to being read at the cricket.
In summary, Biography is:
- a fascinating play that reads very well as a play text,
- almost certainly better read away from cricket rather than at cricket,
- entirely unconnected with cricket, except to the extent that, if you subscribe to deterministic philosophies, you presumably believe that everything is connected to everything.
For the completists amongst you, I have now updated and completed my three-day report “Cricket In the Time Of Covid” with links to the three pieces that KC has published, one for each day:
https://ianlouisharris.com/2021/06/04/three-testing-days-watching-live-cricket-in-the-time-of-covid-2-to-4-june-2021/