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How actors remember their lines and the latest in the Brexit process – with compromises made and a deal done in Brussels – dominates discussion on site today, but we’re also looking at your reaction to Coventry winning its bid to become the next UK city of culture.
To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on.
Total recall: performers on learning their parts – and the perils of ‘brain farts’
Readers have been joining the discussion to share how they try and remember their lines.
‘I’m not sure age has a lot to do with it’
I can spend an entire afternoon working on a song and the next day can’t recall even the title, let alone the words or the tune - until I hear the first half-bar, the first word, and then it’s all there again. I gave up early acting ambitions at school after I completely dried one time and had to perform script in-hand, but over 50 years later I’ve just played my first biggish Shakespeare role and it was all there... so I’m not sure age has a lot to do with it.
SterlingPound
Brexit divorce bill estimated at between £35bn and £39bn – live updates
As ever you’ve been discussing the latest developments and analysis as we bring you them via our Brexit live blog.
‘We still have a long way to go’
Most of us who wanted to remain even more emphatically want leaving to work out well – our life chances and the future of our loved ones depends on that. However some seem to think Brexit means a huge part of the British population should simply keep our mouths shut at all times and never mention a worry or criticism about our concerns regarding what type of country we will become after Brexit.
We still have a long way to go and we will still be critical of process where we see our government seemingly swamped, floundering, or pushing for harmful outcomes.
Scoosh
The Tories’ pointless Brexit theatrics wasted months. Now for the hard part
On the Opinion section of the site Owen Jones gives his reaction to the latest Brexit negotiations. You’ve been adding yours.
It has taken the government this long to realise that the EU held all of the cards’
It wasn’t theatrics, it has just taken the government this long to realise that the EU held all of the cards and that this stage has not been a negotiation but a capitulation. Everything we’ve agreed now is what the EU originally asked for; as far as I can see the UK has pretty much given in on everything.
Our next job is to accept whatever deal they are prepared to give us - again, we have little or no negotiating power.
SpursSupporter
The Northern Irish have done very nicely out of this deal’
As expected, the Northern Irish have done very nicely out of this deal: one of the by products is that a child born in Belfast can apply for an EU passport (through Ireland), whereas a child born in Birmingham cannot.
So, while the English, Scots, Welsh look wistfully through the frosted windows, the Northern Irish can go and live or work or study anywhere in Europe.
tonystoke
Coventry named UK city of culture 2021
Coventry takes the mantle as UK city of culture in 2021 and many of you saw the honour not only as a recognition of what is good about the city, but also chance to improve things.
‘An opportunity to do something nice to places that are a bit downtrodden’
I am from Hull and lived in Coventry for six years, so I feel qualified to comment. It’s great that both cities have been given a chance to regenerate and bring some excitement to the people that live there. It’s not an award to recognise the existing culture, but an opportunity to do something nice to places that are a bit downtrodden.
It is precisely because of the sneering attitude of some commenters on here that these less fashionable places deserve to win.
Many people made the same tired jokes about Hull when it won, but there has been a real buzz around the city all year. It has been a hugely positive thing.
Griff222
Comments have been edited for length. This article will be updated throughout the day with some of the most interesting ways readers have been participating across the site.
