How did Week 1 round off?
BURN by ALAN CUMMING was a great offering and I enjoyed it hugely. Because we Scots all ‘own’ Burns, there were things one wanted to have had covered but you can’t include it all. At least when I wrote a play about JM Barrie that was my experience. I think Cumming was right to narrow his focus.
What would I have liked? Maybe one or two of the great love songs – if Cumming didn’t feel his voice suited, he does recite beautifully.
Festival entertaining continued.
The tomato is eaten in quantity in this household and therefore there are a lot of favourite recipes. The one above is from A Eurpopean Cookbook given to me by my best pal from school around 50 years ago. (Can’t believe you admitted that! Ed) Courgettes, tomatoes, garlic, some olive oil and top with breadcrumbs. It went very well with some halibut from Charles Brown, fishmonger of this parish.
Saturday night saw us back in the Kings – what a lovely theatre it is.
ROOM by James Thierrée, La Compagnie du Hanneton is two hours of music, drama, physical theatre, dance and – maybe – general mayhem, orchestrated, of course. The scene shifters have a full and exacting role as the huge sets are moved through space. timing is all. An absorbing evening and many of the ‘moments’ will drop into the memory for days to come.
Tickets – go here 13 – 16 at 8pm, 17 at 5pm
A Wee Moan, or two
Why is nothing starting on time? Room was 15 mins late, audience warned but no explanation. Other events have been around 5. If you’ve only one event and your transport is assured, it’s of little matter. If you’ve got to get somewhere else and your journey home is on that one bus, then it does matter.
Why don’t the managements make the No Photography etc rules LOUD AND CLEAR at the beginning? My companion was startled by an assistant rushing to prevent a woman take a photo on her phone last night. Too late, I think, and she wasn’t by any means the only one.
So, Week 2 might be under water. I’ll keep you informed.
Anne
CITY OF DISCOVERIES by ANNE STENHOUSE In 1869 Jennet Marshall is the family breadwinner and her William is finding that gie hard. Read the whole serial, written to mark the 150th Anniversary of continuous publication of the People’s Friend, HERE
We’re booked for Burn at the Eden Court, part of our celebration of the BIG wedding anniversary. Really looking forward to some live theatre. Good to hear that you enjoyed it.
Fresh tomatoes or tinned? Bake in the oven?
Hi Maggie, I really didn’t know how much I’d missed live theatre until we started getting back to the Lyceum. Tomatoes – I used fresh and skinned them before… – I’ll send you the recipe. anne