Went to see My City

starring Tracey Ullman at Almeida Theatre

in Islington last week

Stephen Poliakoff's play was rather peculiar!

Lot of storytelling

Ullman plays a former primary headmistress Miss Lambert

who is prone to wandering the streets

and underbelly of London by night.

One night she is discovered laying on a park bench

by one of her former pupils Richard (Tom Riley).

This chance meeting leads to a peculiar night on the town

with another ex-pupil Julie (Siân Brooke)

and the other two members of Miss Lambert’s

strange coven of teachers (David Troughton and Sorcha Cusack).

So what’s it all about then?

Well, possibly the power or process of education

and storytelling, disillusionment, memory

and something to do with us all being alone in big cities.

Did I like the play?

Yes, but it wasn't great,

it was alright.

Almeida Theatre

Almeida Street
Islington
London
N1 1TA 

 As mentioned earlier

went also to Kings Place for 2 concerts

by London Sinfonietta

playing Kulian Anderson and Elliott Carter

Another kind of fun on Saturday last week:

European Finals of Drag Racing in Santa Pod

"The Knot Of The Heart"

 Islington is a great place to stay in London

- it's lively & trendy with lots of small boutiques,

restaurants, bars, galleries and

Almeida Theatre

- it's near everything:

walk by the canal to Camden or St Paul's

or just take the tube from Angel to anywhere in London!

Now in April everything is green & blossoming

.

 Bought tickets to Almeida Theatre

to see "The knot of the heart"  by David Eldridge

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Almeida Theatre

Almeida Street

Islington

London N1

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 “Why has this happened to us?

Things like this don’t happen to families like ours.”

Beautiful and privileged, Lucy is enjoying a burgeoning career in television.

But her social drug habit has become a hard drug addiction,

casting a dark shadow over her future happiness.

As her charmed life begins to slip away

Lucy comes to realise that the devoted support of her family

does not come without a price.

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Very powerful & intense play

with well-played charecters

who could be quite annoying

- things are not so simple,

sometimes trying to protect

can make more harm

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Cast:

Lisa Dillon - Lucy

Margot Leicester - Mother

Abigail Cruttenden - Angela, Lucy's elder sister

Kieran Bew - played several charácters

Sophie Stanton - rehab councelor