Saturday 15 October 2011

Rough Cut

Hamlet said "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will"

And Sir Peter Hall once, famously met a couple of labourers hedging (cutting heges) in the countryside.  Upon enquiring how they worked he was told "I rough hew them and he shapes the ends".

It appears that Ken's barbers in the East Dulwich Rd now works the same Shakesperian way. 

A couple now work in the shop; she first conducts a slash and burn attack on your unruly mop

Then she hands over to the chap, who tides it up and makes it neat and sharp.  Shaping the ends.  He also does eyebrows.

1 comment:

Graham said...

According to a letter to the Guardian this week, the story Peter Hall told was actually, originally by John Dover Wilson. And about fencing, rather than hedging.
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