1 July 2007
We went to see Into the Woods at the Linbury Studio last Saturday. It was all going along nicely, with seats in the second row, able to see all the mechanics of what was going on up close and everything. The Baker was about to stab the Wolf and then suddenly the stage manager walked on stage and stopped the show. It turned out that the strange dripping noise we had heard from under the stage for about 5 minutes was the dock flooding and the orchestra was being slowly saturated and in danger of being electrocuted by all the microphone wires lying around. So, sadly, we were all turfed out in an orderly fashion and told to get a refund. Ah well, I didn't think the staging was that good and a couple of the performances were decidedly dodgy.
Went to Harlesden the other day to try and discover what the moving company at work had secreted away. Just before we left, the project manager jokingly said, 'Have you got your stab vest?' 'Ha, ha, ha', was my response. We got up there and there were about 15 police (and pseudo police) officers milling around the platform and bridge over the tracks. In the ticket hall, the police had set up a metal detector scanning portal thing due to the 'excessive knife related crime' in the area. Outside the station there were several recalcitrant youths being searched by more police officers. And I thought the project manager was joking. So did he...
What with all the car bombs in London and Glasgow, the UK is becoming increasingly less attractive as a dwelling place. If the myriad CCTV cameras in the West End don't produce some kind of tangible result, I shall be very disappointed in our surveillance society.
I read BB's mind twice yesterday. Now he thinks I'm a freak.
Went to Harlesden the other day to try and discover what the moving company at work had secreted away. Just before we left, the project manager jokingly said, 'Have you got your stab vest?' 'Ha, ha, ha', was my response. We got up there and there were about 15 police (and pseudo police) officers milling around the platform and bridge over the tracks. In the ticket hall, the police had set up a metal detector scanning portal thing due to the 'excessive knife related crime' in the area. Outside the station there were several recalcitrant youths being searched by more police officers. And I thought the project manager was joking. So did he...
What with all the car bombs in London and Glasgow, the UK is becoming increasingly less attractive as a dwelling place. If the myriad CCTV cameras in the West End don't produce some kind of tangible result, I shall be very disappointed in our surveillance society.
I read BB's mind twice yesterday. Now he thinks I'm a freak.
# posted by gilamonster : 08:24
