Show Time.

First, most excitedly, I have started eating at the little cafes around the University area. One of these is called Elephants and Bagels, a cafe serving coffees and teas, and bagel sandwiches, decorated with pictures, tapestries, statues, of elephants. It is a sister cafe of Elephant House, slightly posher, famous for hosting JK Rowling as she escaped her unheated flat to write Harry Potter.

I intended to go in with a camera but I feel too touristy doing that.
And if anyone wants an Elephant House shirt/bag/mug/etc, let me know and be prepared to reimburse me for exorbitant amounts of money. Anyway.


Last night I ran the lights for The Visit, by Friedrich Durrenmatt, with Theatre Paradok. Most of it I got dead-on. The only cues that got messed up were the fault of both me and the actor delivering the cue line. So mostly it was good, what I got I got well. What I missed I hope wasn't too obvious.

It's a pretty good play too... I'm not sure. I always like reading things, and even though it's translated from German I think it's a good play to read. But so much of the comedy was in the physical acting, otherwise the written words had a more cynical, black humour to them.

If you get a chance to see a production, I'd take it.