Current Mood

So, an evening of culture at the theatre. A play set just after the Second World War, in a theatre which is being used to house displaced people, waiting to be sent east or west to go home. I was worried that there was going to be a lot of lame audience participation based on the description, but fortunately not,. Some of the actors insisted on standing among us to deliver lines, but otherwise left us alone. Which was good.

It was fun too - lots of pointed lines; the British are trying to organise Europe without understanding it, and for maximum safety the best approach is to endure the closer people lived before the war, the further they are kept apart in the theatre.

Best of all though was the audience. The group of people behind us included a French woman who spent the entire interval telling her group that the actor playing a French farmer was definitely French; even nominating the small region of France he came from - a loudly expressed theory which was somewhat undercut when her friend waited right to the end to point out that the same actor had also played an entirely convincing German character.

The Blip is from the nearby Nando's which provided the all important pre theatre supper.