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Category Archives: Live Performance
Other Dessert Cities at the Guthrie
Phi says it all here. Brilliant except for the last couple of minutes which were trite and weak. Well worth the price of admission for sure. Current temperature: here 19F/-7C, there 1C/34F
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Kidlet as Monkey
The play is Words, Words, Words by David Ives, directed by Mike Lion, a fellow Hampshire student. Kidlet is way cool!!!!! Great monkey body posture. Very effective location. Definitely earned the requisite number of laughs to be considered successful. Current … Continue reading
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Grand Derangement
This group was the first of this year’s Performing Arts series at the U. What a spectacularly great time. Being good Minnesotans we danced spectacularly well in our chairs! The music was wonderful even if we did not understand a … Continue reading
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A little something to bring a smile to your lips
This is so much fun! You can find out more at the web page Where the Hell is Matt? From Matt’s FAQ. Why is the world so screwed up? Men. How do we fix it? Women. Right on! Current temperature: … Continue reading
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On-line but not on-air *sniff*
So today’s Unhindered By Talent on KUMM made it into the wider world on-line but the technology between us and the transmitter appears to be broken so no one in these parts can hear us, darn it. Drat. That poor … Continue reading
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Tagged kumm, Radio, track two, unhindered by talent
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Journey’s End
Another Mercury Theatre production. (We’ve been incredibly lucky to live in a community that has its own professional repertory company.) Based on the play by R. C. Sherriff it is set in an officers’ quarters in the trenches during World … Continue reading
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Habeas Corpus
We had the opportunity to see a production of this Alan Bennett play at the Mercury Theatre. Although very much in the ilk of a British farce, Alan Bennett’s version of this traditional form had an added level of depth … Continue reading
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Brief Lives
We went to see Brief Lives at the Mercury Theatre staring Roy Dotrice. It’s a one man performance based on the writings of John Aubrey. The reclusive antiquarian takes a nostalgic journey through history, telling tales, “including the bits the … Continue reading
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Sleeping Beauty
Last night we joined a full house at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester for the riotous fun that is British panto. Silliness abounded. Awful jokes were the order of the day as we were booing the evil fairy, singing along, … Continue reading
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Christmas Concert
As the school term ended I had the good fortune of seeing the young’un performing in the school Christmas concert. (Phi, unluckily, was galavanting around Dublin, or at least making his way home from galavanting, and missed out.) As they … Continue reading
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