New Tea With Alice: Tom Houghton
Added 2019-08-14 18:20:24 +0000 UTCThe Honourable Tom Houghton talks about living up to a high achieving father, the pathologies of British boarding school culture, masculinity, emotion and a bunch of other fun stuff.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
ALSO: IF YOU ARE IN MELBOURNE, please share this link to tickets to SAVAGE at the Malthouse Theatre.
It's a 600 seat theatre. (https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/alice-fraser-savage). If you are in Melbourne and want to come to the show, as a Patreon supporter, you get as many free tickets as you want.
If you're in London, I'll be doing SAVAGE at the Museum of Comedy on 29 August - TICKETS HERE
If you're in Edinburgh, come and see MYTHOS at The Gilded Balloon at 8.45pm every night or The Live Bugle on the 19th August.
Hoo Boy. Busy.
Comments
Yeah it’s pretty brutal
2019-08-15 18:28:55 +0000 UTCToms recollections of boarding school reminded me of an autobiography by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ("A Labrador Doctor" 1939), in which he recounts his experiences of boarding school in the 1870's. He recalls a fairly brutal upbringing and education that was psychologically and emotionally damaging and I couldn't help but be reminded of Grenfell's experiences when listening to Tom's all these many years later. Aside from the food and the lodgings, it sounds like the psychological aspect of living away from family at boarding school hasn't really changed. It's quite a stark realisation.
Dean
2019-08-15 17:04:34 +0000 UTC
