The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: theatre
Listening To Another Allellujah! #theatre #review
I’m breathing hard. The hillside is a mass of tumbled rocks, like a set of ill-shaped marbles that some troll has just cast down the slope. If I could, I might hear the fall of water nearby, some rain swollen … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, review, theatre
Tagged Alan Bennett, allelujah, play, review, theatre
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Killer Of An Evening #theatrereview #summerheat
Boy it’s hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum. So spake Monty Python’s Bruce. But so would spake all Londoners and indeed most Brits just now. What do you do if you are expiring through heat? You go and sit … Continue reading
Posted in review, theatre
Tagged Killer joe, Orlando Bloom, review, theatre, trafalgar studios
22 Comments
When Absolutes Are Anything But…. #review #theatre
I’ve been having a ‘mare with ordering theatre tickets recently. For our last two trips I seem to have managed to order five tickets for each performance. Ordering four might have some logic in that we might take one or … Continue reading
A Musical Interlude
There are three bloggers who may well unfollow me shortly, at least until they reach the end of this post – assuming they still follow me just now, of course; I’m exposing the gargantuan size of my ego by assuming … Continue reading
Posted in humour, memories, miscellany, music, theatre, thought piece
Tagged Abba, eurovision, Mamma Mia, music, musicals, theatre
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T is for Theatreland #atozchallenge
London is one of the best places to enjoy live entertainment, never more so than its theatres. Theatreland around Leicester Square is where you would naturally aim though as I pointed out in N is for Nationals, the National Theatre is … Continue reading
Posted in A to Z blogging challenge, challenge, London, miscellany, theatre
Tagged #atozchallenge, A to Z blogging challenge, London, National Theatre, theatre
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Treading the Boards
One of the Lawyer’s school friends is making it in the world of acting, appearing in a recent episode of Silent Witness and fronting his own series soon I believe. Which made me ponder why, for someone such as myself … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany
Tagged acting, les mains sales; nativity, memories, theatre
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Jane Eyre – live and in lights
You’ve read the book. You’ve probably seen the film. Now you can take can the stage play. When the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (bear with me here) first came out, it was written as a radio series. The Book, … Continue reading
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