The Archers and Day 2 at Ayr
Our Arts Correspondent Arturo Inaffidabilità has left Boyd’s Own to start a new project in Greenwich Village, The Shoestring Opera Company, which has been funded by a grant from The Sorokin-Delvey Trust. The Editor will assume his responsibilities.
Hobbled off to The Barn Theatre in Cirencester on Wednesday, one of the very few theatres that is actually comfortable. It also has its own decent restaurant attached for pre-theatre dinners, AND you can be a grownup and drink a bottle of vodka in the stalls, (providing it is in a plastic container). I wonder if they would allow me to take in a drip feed. “This is my support pet!” If you delivered that in a Merseyside accent, there would be confusion over whether you were addressing the Usher or the booze.
Sorry, off-piste there for a moment…
Apart from the negotiation of wet floors in an Aircast boot, which I discovered has all the grip of blancmange, pulled from the wreck of the Exxon Valdez, everything was tickety-boo. Out with a very jolly team, a bit of grolly, a couple of slugs of the Corinium Rosso, and then in to see Haywire.
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