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Random Thoughts for 21st October 2013: An insomnia fuelled catch up
No comments on Random Thoughts for 21st October 2013: An insomnia fuelled catch upNot much blogging going on here at the moment. There are reasons for that, although we won’t go into that now, and I am wondering if I ought to change my approach. There doesn’t seem to be much focus or direction to this blog when I do post. However, (and as if to handily illustrate that randomness) I will make use of a night of serious insomnia to catch up with posting some links. So…
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The Captain of Kopenick
On Thursday I went to see The Captain of Kopenick at the National Theatre. Starring Antony Sher in the lead role this comic play is a satire on German militarism. Essentially the story is about a petty criminal who manages to steal from the local authorities by dressing up as a Captain of the army reserves. It is about just how much you can get away with when wearing the right uniform. I didn’t find…
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Henry V
Last Friday I went to see Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe on the South bank. It was a bit of a late birthday treat and I had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon watching the play in that wonderfully recreated “wooden O”. Perhaps my only niggles would be the extraordinarily irritating laugh of a woman sitting next to us and the decision of what appeared to be every helicopter in London to fly over the airspace above the…
