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My Kind of London: May 2014
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My Kind of London. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Playing at it: The Pajama Game at the Shaftesbury Theatre. If the romance seems unlikely, the factory scenes have an undercurrent that works against the intended humour. The floor manager's efforts to speed up production with a stop-watch (‘Hurry Up! Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Cityreads Quiz at Manor House Library. Teams representing library reading groups and a library staff team met at Manor House Library on Tuesday 20th May at 7.30pm. We were all set to b...We'd ...
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My Kind of London: Cityreads Quiz at Manor House Library
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My Kind of London. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Cityreads Quiz at Manor House Library. Teams representing library reading groups and a library staff team met at Manor House Library on Tuesday 20th May at 7.30pm. We were all set to be tested on our knowledge of Louisa Young's My Dear, I've been meaning to tell you. And, incidentally, on our knowledge of WW1 battles and artists. Wines and light refreshment were much appreciated. I wanted to tell you. Louisa Young. My Dear. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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My Kind of London: Playing at it: The Pajama Game at the Shaftesbury Theatre
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My Kind of London. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Playing at it: The Pajama Game at the Shaftesbury Theatre. If the romance seems unlikely, the factory scenes have an undercurrent that works against the intended humour. The floor manager's efforts to speed up production with a stop-watch (‘Hurry Up! I cant think of any musical with a convincing storyline. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Kind of Writing (and Reading). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Where my work has been published.
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My Kind of London: April 2013
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My Kind of London. Sunday, April 28, 2013. Time Goes By: 'Merrily We Roll' Along by Stephen Sondheim at The Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street. Stephen Sondheim , at 50, was the leading. Composer/lyricist of his generation, but 'Merrily We Roll Along', famously flopped on Broadway in 1981. However, Sondheim didn't give up - thirty years on Michael Grandage's Donmar Warehouse production won the Olivier 'Best Musical' award. Friday night's crowd at The Harold Pinter Theatre. That normally drives a plot.
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My Kind of London: May 2013
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My Kind of London. Wednesday, May 01, 2013. On The Wrong Side of the Circus at the Funeral. Along with a lot of other people I felt angry in the days between Margaret Thatcher’s death and the funeral. Media reports brought back memories of the eighties, when I was teaching in the East End, my students convinced that elections must rigged. Nothing seemed set to change, and I left for a job abroad. A woman on the pavement outside waved a cardboard cup at a policeman. ‘I’m on jury service at...A woman in fr...
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My Kind of London: March 2013
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My Kind of London. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Dressing to Kill in Cumbria: Silence by Maria Buffini at Jack Studio Theatre. It's always good to enter the familar portals of the Brockley Jack pub. It's nice to be greeted by name at the box office, too. I didn't know what to make of this 'Dark-age dark comedy', which seemed overly ambitious in the sheer number of issues it tackled. Maria Buffini was new to me, although she's won awards and was commisioned to write for the National Theatre. Normally, I like t...
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My Kind of London: October 2013
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My Kind of London. Sunday, October 06, 2013. I ♥ Literary Events. I love going to authors' talks and writing workshops. But much as I like to blog about them, it's sometimes hard to catch up. September and early October seem to be the worst months. On the 16th I enjoyed 'Found in Translation' at the LSE, in the splendid Khalili Theatre. Novelists Ali Smith, Julian Barnes and Adam Thirwell, plus Sandra Smith ( translator of. And produced exactly the right mix of personalities to be entertaining. And answe...
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My Kind of London: Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet at The Playhouse Theatre
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My Kind of London. Thursday, October 02, 2014. Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet at The Playhouse Theatre. It has to be first - laminated summaries left on tables in the bar, so the audience know what’s happening onstage. At the Duchess Theatre recently. (see below). Come the interval, though, I was retracing my steps up Northumberland Avenue. I talked myself round, and went back just in time to get a black coffee before the second half. After all, I told myself, I’d paid £4 for a programme. Karen the secret...
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My Kind of London: July 2014
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My Kind of London. Sunday, July 20, 2014. Culture Clash: Bakersfield Mist at Duchess Theatre, Aldwych . I’ve too many bad memories of West End theatres on hot afternoons. So the cool freshness of the Duchess Theatre was a pleasant surprise, especially on a day when record temperatures were expected. Quite a contrast with the sun-drenched swelter of the Aldwych outside. A cool experience in every sense of the word. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Kind of Writing (and Reading). London, United Kingdom. An Id...
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My Kind of London: August 2013
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My Kind of London. Sunday, August 18, 2013. Not as silly as it seems: 'The Ladykillers' by Graham Linehan and Sean Foley at Vaudeville Theatre. The play I saw at the Vaudeville last week is a revival of the classic 1955 Ealing comedy directed by Alexander Mackendrick. That it all seemed a bit lacklustre was not for want of any acting ability by the cast, although it didn’t help that my friend and I had seats in the back row of the stalls. Some of the dialogue was lost. Less successful is the robbery, dep...
