Judi Dench, August 1977 dog call it blind optimism

call it blind optimism

The Guardian photographer Graeme Robertson rose early last Sunday to photograph nearly 50 hot air balloons that took flight across London

middle-aged ladies in careful make-up

but this ethereal image captures the old ground in its pomp

the fight didn’t exactly go to plan

Judi Dench, August 1977 dog call it blind optimismThere are rave reviews and there are the reviews that the Royal Shakespeare Company got for its 1976 production of Macbeth, starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. The Guardians Michael Billington declared he would remember the sound of the daggers rattling in Macbeths hands until his dying day. The play transferred to Londons Donmar Warehouse then called The Warehouse in September 1977, which was the occasion for this relaxed, intimate portrait by