I came out of The White Guard today, hopped on my bike and thought I had landed in 28 Days Later. I had misgivings about the Waterloo roundabout, always an insane mess of cars, bikes and other vehicles and there was — no one. I have never seen the streets of London so empty (at…
Category: theater
A Dandy, Van and Rude Britannia
No time for anything but a quick recap in reverse time order: last night saw Dandy in the Underworld, the one man play at the Soho Theatre about Sebastian Horsley. It was quite good and alternately funny and sad, particularly with the fact of his death last week hanging over the production — though Horsley…
BitchBuzz: Shakespeare Lunch
My latest column for BitchBuzz takes up another theatre experience: Shakespeare for Lunch at the Bridewell Theatre If you like your Bard on the light side, C Company and the Bridewell Theatre offer you the chance for a taste of the Elizabethan drama cut down for lunchtime viewing in the intimate surroundings of the tiny…
BitchBuzz: Women Beware Women
My latest column for BitchBuzz is another theatre review: “Men buy their slaves, but women buy their masters.” – Isabella Shakespeare gets all the love when it comes to Elizabethan theatre, but that’s because people tend to forget that the stage was the television of its time, cheap and plentiful, aiming only to get bums…
Review: After the Dance + NT backstage tour
I love the NT! What could it be? Their wide variety of programming? Plays old and new? More female directors in this single building than on the whole of Broadway? So many reasons! I found yet another reason when I took their backstage tour. Yes, I am so enamoured of theatre life that it was…
Publications: "Touched by an Angel" & 21st Century Gothic
I just received a copy of the cover of the new collection 21st Century Gothic which features my essay on Graham Joyce’s [AKA William Heaney’s] Memoirs of a Master Forger. It was one of those projects that comes out of the blue and then — typical for me anyway — I forget all about it…
Review: The Real Thing
Wednesday I caught The Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, as I mentioned in a recent post. Most of you know how I am enamoured of Stoppard’s work and I had heard good things about this production. The bar was set high by the most recent production of his Arcadia, which was…
London, Books and Catching Up
After all the stress of getting away from the snow, it was a relief to get to London and sigh with happiness. My favorite place in the world. So much to see and do: unfortunately, almost all of the pictures I took were for my friend Darlene’s second grade class, who gave me a Flat…
London Update
Well, I have been a poor correspondent, no doubt — on the plus side, it’s because I’m having too good a time. For some alternate updates of a brief nature, check the Twitter stream in the right hand column of this blog, but even that only happens when I hit some free wifi as I’m…
London so far
Lets see: after the stress of trying to get here, it was a welcome sight even in pouring rain. Have seen pubs (of course!), V&A’s new medieval/renaissance wing, a brief stop at the National Gallery, the Argentinian film La mujer sin cabeza, the Van Gogh letters exhibit at the Royal Academy and a little shopping…