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Mike Kenny adap­ted “The Rail­way Chil­dren” for the stage (or at least, for the Rail­way Museum and Water­loo Sta­tion, and now gives “The Wind in the Wil­lows” the stage treat­ment.  It’s all slightly arch, the anim­als reliv­ing their adven­tures in … Con­tinue read­ing →

The York Shakespeare Pro­ject has got up to Henry IV — and it’s crack­ingly good, or at least part I is — part II is still to see.  Use of a medi­eval church as the theatre gives a cer­tain atmo­sphere … Con­tinue read­ing →

Lakes, moun­tains, light.  A little piece of para­dise at Sel­jord in Tele­mark.  And then there’s the wild­life by the cabin — deer and a com­mon sand­piper Not to men­tion the wild­flowers and the but­ter­flies, so I won’t. And there’s also the surreal…

“An Enemy of the People” at the Cru­cible was abso­lutely first rate.  Anthony Sher as Dr Stock­mann — an endear­ing and some­what naïve enthu­si­astic ideal­ist — quite unworldly in lots of ways.  His brother quite sin­is­ter as the politi­cian.  A … Con­tinue read­ing →

A stand­ing ova­tion mag­ni­fi­cently deserved. Jan Gab­arek, Rainer Brun­ing­haus, Yuri Dniel and Trilok Gurtu in a stun­ning single  2   1/4 hour set of enorm­ous vari­ety with Brun­ing­haus and Gurtu in par­tic­u­lar get­ting a very fair share of solos.  As … Con­tinue read­ing →

Whereas the York Theatre Royal Pan­to­mime is the highest qual­ity load of old rub­bish you could ever hope to see in your life­time.  It just  gets more out­rageous every year — more cos­tume changes, more elab­or­ate sets, more ad lib­bing, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Actu­ally, it’s not, it’s rub­bish.  Enjoy­able rub­bish, true, but it’s not Meryl Streep at her best and it’s all about rich people in Cali­for­nic­a­tion.  I was actu­ally root­ing for the creep ex-husband but we should have been hop­ing she got … Con­tinue read­ing →

The Edin­burgh Arms is quite friendly and cosy in an expans­ive sort of way, though it doesn’t really do half-pints.  We explained that we’d been to 18 pubs already, and were due to visit 18 more.  Out the back and … Con­tinue read­ing →

Train to Dar­ling­ton through extremely wet coun­tryside — the Ouse at York well over the Ings and the river­side foot­paths and every stream and small river north wards full to over­flow­ing. At times the train on its embank­ment was cross­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

Apart from the fact that the pat­ter to songs ratio is too heav­ily weighted onto the pat­ter, what a superb enter­tainer !  Humor­ous songs and deadly ser­i­ous ones — like the one about the shoot­ing of Jean Charles de Menezes … Con­tinue read­ing →