The Naiad Diaries

07/02/2024

Rainy Los Angeles day

30/01/2024

32 522 words in; Jowita’s Fallen Stars.

22/01/2024

It is by writing that one writes.

17/01/2024

11/10/2023

Jowita’s Fallen Stars

27/09/2023

Contemplation on the world in autumn 🍂
Warszawa, September 2023
by Magdalena Baczyńska

10/09/2023

What an incredible honour and pleasure to have presented my paper on Heathcliff as metaphor for ecocide in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights yesterday at the Brontë Society Conference! So grateful for all the wonderful people I met 💝

03/06/2023

Just recorded a good audition (🤞 )

16/04/2023

Had a
theatre audition
today ♡

04/04/2023

I found my new monologue

03/04/2023

This weekend I was offered to direct a feature film and to audition to join a theatre company ♡

30/03/2023

☺️💘

23/03/2023

"All the long gone darlings: they Get back, though, soon."

Sylvia Plath

12/03/2023

Oscars day 💖

07/03/2023

It's a nice day to write a novel...

03/03/2023

I've been reading Wide Sargasso Sea and dreaming of writing a retelling of a classic novel. Rebecca, for me, is an ideal retelling. What's your favourite retelling?

01/03/2023

Working on a piece on Vivien Leigh 💘

02/01/2023

Happy New Year 2023

18/11/2022

Women Talking premiere

15/11/2022

https://jolacora.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/art-for-books-and-plays/

Sylwia Ewa Paszko &Jola CoraPaintings and drawings for plays and fairy tales Original Illustrations When Jola Cora was getting ready to produce her fairy tale The House by the Swamp as a stage …

25/10/2022

"My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time."

Sylvia Plath

10/10/2022

Played two roles on the same night last night

19/09/2022

I must go back to writing Le Charlatan et la Libellule

05/09/2022

"It is only once you understand the meaning and the function of your lines that you will be able to know them."

28/08/2022

When you should be learning your lines but you are obsessed with a novel...

28/08/2022

Happy international dog day! Whilst Vivien’s affection for her feline companions is well known, it’s perhaps less well known that in her childhood she also had a pet bull terrier. Today’s photo was taken in India at Ootacamund when Vivien was aged around 3.
Her mother Gertrude Hartley tried to instill an appreciation of literature in her daughter and taught her to read stories of Greek mythology and Indian folklore as well as the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling. To train Vivien’s powers of observation Gertrude introduced her to ‘Kim’s Game’, a mental exercise used to hone the brain agility of British Intelligence workers in Kipling’s novel Kim: At bedtime Gertrude would arrange some objects in a pattern on a tray, remove them and have Vivien recreate the pattern in the morning. The process undoubtedly had the desired effect, as Vivien developed a prodigious memory and later in life could remember her lines with ease.

This photo was part of a lot of early photographs acquired by the Vivien leigh Circle at Vivien’s estate auction at Sotheby’s in 2017, and which we subsequently donated to the V&A.

Image restored by an now in the V&A collection

25/08/2022