I spent an absolutely marvellous day in London yesterday. Funny: I’ve lived close enough to London for years to have done all the touristy bits twice and thrice over, but I never seem to get there.
First time for everything. I started off my day on South Bank – avoiding the usual hordes of tourists who [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Fish, Nightwish, Pain and garlic in one day.
Posted in music, pirates, theatre on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s theatre is pirate a la mode.
Posted in captain hook, pirates, theatre on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the spirit of wanting to indulge in more culture this year, I went right ahead and indulged in the Birmingham Stage Company’s Treasure Island at the Marlowe Theatre yesterday.
I must say, I was quite impressed. The actors were pictures of enthusiasm the whole way through, many of them taking on two or more roles [...]
Now I have officially crossed over into hyper nerd-dom.
Posted in captain hook, theatre on March 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Because I have to see this so badly it almost hurts.
I just love things like this: cross-genre, cross-language, practically cross-dimensional. Last weekend I went to see Tosca at the Royal Albert Hall (which was splendid) - now, I find this absolute treasure concept of theatre spectacular, courtesy of a copy of the Evening Standard I picked [...]
