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Taken at Midnight/The Chichester Theatre

This play has its genesis in a documentary and televised drama written by Mark Hayhurst. It’s the fascinating, inspiring and tragic story of Irmgard Littten’s efforts to remove from jail her lawyer son who humiliated Hitler in the witness box in 1931 at the trial of four of his storm [...]

November 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Debating points

Having reported upon my trek to Islington to see Friday night’s concert featuring Dave and Phil Alvin yesterday, I subsequently reminded myself of a fascinating discussion that my little group had whilst consuming its pre-match meal. Amongst his many attributes, a couple of years ago my [...]

October 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Roots are what music is all about

Last night (Friday 24th October) I crossed town to the Islington Assembly Hall in order to join my brother and a pal on a pilgrimage to see Dave and Phil Alvin, sibling kernels of cult American rockabilly/R & B/Americana band The Blasters, on their latest (‘and The Guilty Ones’) UK [...]

October 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Details count (sometimes)

Getting up at my usual unearthly hour today, I was mildly amused by Radio Five Live’s coverage of the Ofcom and BBC Trust rebuke for the amount of swearing let loose on air during the coverage of the BBC Big Weekend Event – see here for a report on the website of THE GUARDIAN In about 1980, [...]

October 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Arthur Smith sings Leonard Cohen/Theatre Royal Brighton

On  a cold, wet and gusty night in Brighton, there is every reason to stay indoors and not hear the world’s most depressing songs.  Someone once described his music as “music to slash your wrists by” and another observed that if you were driving home after a bad evening you [...]

October 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Killing of Sister George

In preparation of a list of gay movies I am shortly circulating I watched last night the DVD of the Robert Aldrich adaptation of the Frank Marcus’ play. At first blush, it was strange that the director of The Dirty Dozen should sell his stake in that film to finance his own studio to make [...]

October 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

The hare with amber eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal is a book of which I have heard but never read. In November I am going Vienna to do The Third Man film tour so I decided to prep up and finally read it. I was not too sure if it was a work of fiction or fact or why it was esteemed so much prior to my [...]

October 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The White Oak

Yesterday Polly and I decided to visit the Stanley Spencer Gallery and lunch at one of my favourites the White Oak. Grace left before breakfast. She  is the world’s unluckiest traveller and it was no surprise when she texted that all trains to Paddimgton were delayed. I will need to speak [...]

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Gone Girl

 Those who have seen Gone Girl would have either read the book or not. I suspect the latter category would have enjoyed it more. I read Gilllian Lynne’s clever work early on before it became a best seller and was impressed. An unreliable narrator failed writer Nick Dunne recounts his story [...]

October 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Importance of being Earnest

The West End production of this famous Oscar Wilde play has come down to Brighton. The play is now 120 years old and the director gave it a new treatment. It was a play within a play as it was put on by the Bunbury players , an am-dram group. Thus there were those mistakes and flaws that arise in [...]

October 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

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