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Purity Ball
I'm sorry I find THIS a little bit creepy.
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Brideshead Revisited revisited
When I heard they were making a movie of Brideshead Revisited I must admit I rolled my eyes in horror. How could they cram all that story into a movie after seeing the famous TV serial. Anyway the trailer is out and I still have my doubts but have to say Emma looks great as does the Talented Mr. Whishaw. We shall see....


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That Face
This afternoon I went up to town to the Duke of York's Theatre to see Polly Stenham's That Face. She is the youngest playwright to have a play in the West End for 50 years and was 19 when she wrote it. It had rave reviews at The Royal Court last year and has just opened for a short run in the West End.

Mia is an apparently over-privileged 15 year old who manages to comatose a younger girl with drugs in a boarding school initiation ceremony that looks more like an act of torture. The school phones her mother but is alarmed to hear that her mother isn't too interested, in fact her mother, Martha, is an alcoholic on drugs herself.

Henry is almost 18, he dropped out of school sometime ago to care for his mother, Martha, when their father left them and started a new family in Singapore. Henry cares for Martha a little too much, in fact the scene opens with Henry asleep in Martha's bed.

A totally dysfunctional middle-class family in meltdown. Sounds grim? Perhaps but blackly comic and stunningly acted by Matt Smith (Henry) who loses his mind as much as his mother and by Lindsay Duncan as Martha. Duncan is a marvel as the over-possessive Martha who refers to her daughter as "the little shit" and whose method of keeping Henry tied to her non-existent apron strings is cutting up his clothes. There's a wonderful moment when she has a long conversation flirting with the talking-clock man on the phone! Give the woman another Olivier!








A slightly shell-shocked audience stumbled out into the bright London sunshine after 90 minutes of great theatre.

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Scarecrow Festival.
Just so you can see the strange things that go on in an English village on May Bank Holiday, I took a trip to a neighbouring village and took some photos. All the scarecrows represented song titles and people were going round with question sheets guessing from the clues. I only took photos but guessed some of the songs.

I've put them on a Flickr slideshow HERE

BTW maybe of you photo savvy people can help me? I took some photos in portrait style and turned and saved them in PSP as usual. In my folders they are right way up but when I loaded them on to my new Flickr account they came out horizontally again!! I'd like to post them as there are some nice ones there.

Edit: I have sorted it out and added some more.

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This afternoon I went up to town to see God of Carnage at the Gielgud Theatre. Written by French writer Yasmina Reza and translated by the brilliant Christopher Hampton.
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Son of Rambow
I was going to go into work tonight and watchThere Will Be Blood but I can get all the gloom and despondency I need at home so have decided to skip it. I discovered I had four Odeon vouchers that run out on the 30th April so headed off to Guildford this afternoon instead and went to see Son of Rambow.

This is a great little movie set in the early Eighties. Will and his widowed mother and family are Plymouth Brethren. Will lives in a dreamworld drawing cartoons in his Bible in the shed. When there is a geography film to watch at school Will gets sent outside to the corridor as his religion forbids him to watch TV! As he sits outside another door opens and Lee Carter, a young tearaway and bully is ejected from class. Somehow they manage to smash the school goldfish bowl and are sent to see the head. Lee offers to take the rap for Will if he gives him his watch and thus begins a new friendship.

Lee orders Will to be his stuntman for a film he is going to enter in a BBC Children's TV competition and so begins a tale of friendship, love, betrayal and imagination. The two boys put in stunning performances and a great cast including Neil Dudgeon (as a Plymouth Brother trying to get his foot in the door with Will's mother) and Adam Godley.

It opens in America on May 2nd and is really worth a visit and older kids should love it too.
HERE'S the website and here is the trailer:

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The 39 Steps
Last night I went to see The 39 Steps. It won the Olivier Award for best new comedy last year in London and now is touring.
Some of you may be familiar with the classic Hichcock version starring Rober Donat. Well this was really the same except done on the stage with only four cast!! It was hilarious. Lashings of steam and fog for the railway and moor scenes and a wonderful hero with clipped moustache and vowels.
Scenery was at a minimum. Door frames were wheeled on for people to walk through and window frames were held up to escape through.
Check out the super website HERE and see the "Trailer!"
I'd recommend it to any Brits who want a really fab night out.

Edit: Apparently it's in NEW YORK too!

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Reasons to be Cheerful
Two weeks ago yesterday my 17 yr old son took his driving test and failed. The sky fell in and there was much wailing and gnashing.
Today was the first time he could retake it and he got a cancellation at 1.35pm this afternoon. He and his instructor dropped me off in Guildford where I spent an angst-filled 90 minutes of spending in M&S. As I sat waiting to be picked up the mobile rang, he'd PASSED!!.
It's our 33rd wedding anniversary today but we decided not to plan anything in case everything went pear-shaped today so now I can stick the bubbly on ice
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