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LGBT History Month: Crofton Park Eco-Community Library
This is about as local as you can get for me, the library is a twelve-minute walk from my house, so I was very pleased to be invited to read. A small audience but a generous one, they bought more books than the other LGBT history month events put together, and most of us ended…
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Orpheus and Eurydice at the Platform
Come and watch/listen to English Pocket Opera Company‘s production of Gluck’s masterpiece, Orpheus & Eurydice. 21st – 26th January, at the Platform Theatre, Central St Martin’s, Handyside Street King’s Cross London N1C 4AA Short sharp and sweet, we’ll take you to hell and back, with the eccentric story of Orpheus I don’t think I will…
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Tis the season
Carol singing, my friends, the sound that cheers: loud, raucous and invigorating. We’ll be driving the cold winter away and getting our vocal chords around some songs going right back to the 15th Century at the Ivy House today at 3pm (ish- depends on how long the rehearsal overruns by). Come along, listen, drink and…
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Macbeth does Murder Sleep
Being part of an opera plays havoc with your sleep (and eating) patterns. I’m a bit of a homebody normally (although running a publishing venture has changed that a bit – schlepping about with a suitcase full of books to readings of an evening has meant my normal bedtime is now nearer midnight than it…
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Easter Breaks and Sense and Sensibility
We had such a nice weekend planned; travel down to Bath Thursday evening, stay with J&T until Sunday, then go on to J&S for another couple of days. The plans were full of good food and long walks in the spring filled valleys. We started well, with a walk round the fields and woods of…
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Friday: FOG at the Finborough
A mass outing from the Raise the Roof Theatre Appreciation Society to the Finborough, to see the penultimate performance of FOG, a new play by Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton. You might wonder why I would bother to review something that has just closed. Well for the simple reason that a) it was brilliant, and…
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Musical from scratch
This is definitely an experiment: A and I at Blackheath Halls with quite a crowd of Blackheath Chorus, Gospellers and Find Your Voice-ers with Lee Reynolds directing, for a seven-week make-a-musical… there will be an invitation only performance in week seven. The plan is that we come up with a musical from scratch: we aren’t…
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Eugene Onegin – the tribute song
Every year, when we finish an opera, the wonderful Liz Goldman produces a song to-the-tune-of various musical themes from the work, which the chorus sing to the principals and production team at the post production party. These songs are always marvelous, (I particularly treasure ‘from Carmelite to Armalite’ for Boheme). Liz is a genius, and this…
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Wintermiddle
Wintermiddle is, as far as I know, an invention of Michael Rosen. His alternative to Father Christmas is Aunty Wintermiddle, a cheerful rainbow-wearing bringer of good times and merriment. When I was going through my ‘its all a patriarchal construct’ phase, I found Aunty very comforting. These days I’ll go with any celebration on offer…
Cherry Potts, Writer 