Oh, is it Schönbrunn?

No, it's the Town Hall of Pori. 

 Pori summer theatre.

 Set for the Ray Cooney's play "Run For Your Wife" (Linjat kuumina).

Ray Cooney is an English playwright  and actor. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife, ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy.

Pola Ivanka, Suvi Hurme, Petra Karjalainen, Kristo Salminen, Lasse Karkjärvi, Johanna Kokko and Valtteri Lehtinen.

The play was so funny and the actresses & actors really good!

Had a nice Friday evening!

My City

 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

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 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

Edith Piaf

Went to Edith Piaf evening to

Budapesti kamaraszinház

on Friday evening

- didn't really know what to expect..
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Empty stage:

the show is about to begin...

Éva Vári sings Edith Piaf in Hungarian
- great evening!
Perhaps a little bit too much talking in Hungarian
but it was interesting though;
Éva as Edith was telling about
her life from the birth to the death
and of course, singing all the great hits of her
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The 1,5h show was sold out.
Nice & cosy atmosphere,
the audience onsisted of young &
elderly people too
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Will go & buy a cd of Edith Piaf today!

The House Of Games

" The House Of Games"

at Almeida

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Based on the Screenplay by David Mamet,

story by David Mamet and Jonathan Katz;

stage version by Richard Bean

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“This is a confidence game,

not because you give me your confidence,

but because I give you mine."

. Stage still in dark before the performance started
.
Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford

is celebrated for her best selling book

‘Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life’.

Stepping in to help one of her patients

settle his gambling debts,

she compromises her professional reputation

and is drawn into the seedy underworld

of the House of Games poker club.

Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike,

Margaret convinces herself that she can make

an academic study of the con.

Before she realises it,

Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced complex thriller.

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Great to see something in English!

Not a world-breaking play

but quite amusing

- charicature characteres

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www.almeida.co.uk

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"Akkapakka"

Went to open-air theatre in Pori to see

a piece called "Akkapakka"

- original play "Grumpy Old Women"

written by Jenny Éclair, Richard Herring & Judith Holder

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Funny play about women aproaching their 50's
- all so true!

- well made, good actresses

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Played by Finnish actresses:
Sari Mallinen
Kaija Pakarinen
Piitu Uski
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Fiddler on the Roof

Wednesday night had tickets to

Fiddler on the roof

at Vigszinház

- fabulous singers,

the acting was excellent too
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Piccolo bottle of sparkling for 3 persons...

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock,

lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein,

set in Tsarist Russia in 1905.

It is based on Tevye and his Daughters.

The story centers on Tevye,

the father of five daughters,

and his attempts to maintain his family

and religious traditions while outside influences

encroach upon their lives.

He must cope with both the strong-willed actions

of his three older daughters—

each one's choice of husband moves further away

from the customs of her faith

—and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.

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By the way, earlier on Wednesday

had a cup of tea with macarons

at Gerbeaud

- delicious small macaroons

with orange & poppy seeds

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