National Gallery takes the form of music and verse.

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet''. So wrote Plato almost 2,400 years ago. Well-known actor Nigel Kermode will explore this theory in a solo performance entitled, O Blush Not So! O Blush Not So!, a celebration of the Art of Love and Life.

And the Senior Violin Group of The Bermuda Suzuki Academy will provide light classical music.

Prior to Mr. Kermode's arrival here, he acted with the Stamford Shakespeare Company and was a member of one of England's leading repertory companies, the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, for whom he played the leading roles of Henry II in both The Lion in Winter and Beckett, Francisco Pizarro in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun.

In Bermuda, Nigel Kermode has appeared in starring roles with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society in Camelot and The Sound of Music.

He directed and took the role of Ernest in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest for the BMDS Bermuda Festival. Other notable roles include McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sir in The Dresser and Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.

An Evening of Music and Verse takes place at the National Gallery on Thursday, March 18 at 5.30 p.m. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Admission $10 (members $7), tickets available at the door.

SUZUKI VIOLINISTS -- Members of the Bermuda Suzuki Academy Violin Group will perform at the National Gallery on Thursday. Pictured are (front row, from left): Nicola Francis, Mandy Wong, Julie Perry, (back row, from left): Jessica Lightbourne, Hywel Brown, accompanist Jane Farge and teacher Joan Stewart.