I wouldn’t be a proper Londoner if I didn’t say something about this, even though like, most of the city, I suspect I’m not sure what I want to say. So, I’ll try and keep it simple. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of people all across the city have taken to the streets and …
Category Archive: London
Aug
09
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Jul
10
Watch This Space
Yes, I could be accused of bias. But hell, it can really be quite cool. I mean, sometimes rubbish. But mostly awesome. And it’s free. Did I mention it’s free? You suffer nothing, therefore, by checking this out…. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/wts
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Jul
09
Cally Rd Festival
The Caledonian Road, It’s not renowned for it’s glamour. When people say ‘where shall we go for an exciting and dynamic time’ the Cally Rd doesn’t leap immediately to mind. To one side Barnsbury – swish Islington terraced houses and well-maintained large gardens – the other side York Way, housing estates and cheap, suspect off …
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Jun
19
Changing trains at Richmond
I very rarely change trains at Richmond, and have only been doing so because the rehearsals I’ve been attending on my ‘days off’ (note ironic quotation marks… did I mention this was the month from hell?) are on the far west of town, so horrifyingly far west, in fact, that you’re forced to take, deep …
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May
16
4.50 a.m.
There comes a point in every sensible girl’s life when she finds herself thinking, ‘oh my’. I mean, ‘oh my’ probably really doesn’t do it justice, but that’s kinda the point – ‘oh my’ are the nearest words that I find readily available to capture that strange sense of… well… of ‘oh my’-iness that sometimes …
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Apr
30
View from the Office
You sitting comfortably? Name the roof…
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Apr
24
Adventures in the Small Hours
Remember the other job I do? The one when not writing… So, yes, that other job, the days spent hanging off perches, clinging to a follow spot, lighting stuff. We’re slowly shuffling towards the end of a run – in fact, my last day is on Thursday – after which I return fully to the …
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Apr
19
Tower Bridge
No Hollywood-funded film of London is complete without Tower Bridge. Preferably, Tower Bridge with a red double decker bus – Routemaster, mind – speeding across it ideally while being chased by someone in a black cab. Strange tricks of urban geography have been achieved for this effect. Witness the recent film of Sherlock Holmes, who …
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Mar
21
Wanders through EC1
I love that hour of the day, particularly in early/late winter, when all the lights go on behind busy office buildings and, for a few happy minutes, you get to see everything that goes on in a sort of not-night, not-day twilight. I especially like it in the centre of town, where all the windows …
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Mar
12
Sparks Theatrical Hire
99% of technical theatre is begging. I was a pretty poor ASM on the few occasions I had to do the horrible job, because I just couldn’t quite understand what was in it for all the various sources I went to trying to borrow, beg and blag props for no money whatsoever, in them lending …
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