Time for a bit of a catch up….First up Bobs party friday last. It took me a little walking around the city to find the right basement – there was no urgency, nothing was going to start until 8, so having found where I was going later I started wandering around with the intention of finding some food. Of course the city closes by 8, and that which doesn’t is pubs populated by exactly the sort of pinstripe hoorays who are unlikely to take kindly to someone like my wandering past. I found Steve on a similar, but more focussed, quest. I decided to leave him to it and take my chances finding a cafe open in the area. Fool. I ended up, some 30 minutes later, back at the dodgy little corner shop Steve had disappeared into. So, into the basement where there were a few old faces I’ve not seen for a while. Good to catch up with people.
Then on Saturday we headed to Clapham for Gormenghast. I’ve never read the book, so I wasn’t quite sure what I was expecting…I understand that it was reasonably faithful to the book given the constraints of limited budget and space. There were some interesting uses of space and ‘musical’ accompaniment to various actions on the stage. Even without knowing the story the cast projected a lot of atmosphere. I now don’t feel any need to read the book, it seems like it would be very wordy without making much progress. With most of the words somehow distilled away, on stage, leaving a certain amount of space within the story, this made for a nice packaging for a story I’ve felt should be something I know. Recommended.
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