theatre

NT Live Skylight: How perfection is only ever a few pixels away

July 18, 2014 By Ellen

Not only was the sun shining, making a walk through Glasgow’s West End feel like going on holiday, but I’d got parked exactly where I wanted to. Twice. Things were looking good. It was the evening of NT Live‘s screening of David Hare’s Skylight. For once I won childcare roulette and going was a real, […]

239/365 is H from Steps the best Joseph?

August 27, 2013 By Ellen

The Panther and I debated this as we led some tired Boys out of the King’s Theatre tonight. (Yes, on a school night. What of it?) No one gets past Jason Donovan for his money, whereas I have a soft spot for Philip Schofield, but maybe I just hoped Gordon the Gopher followed him […]

Stratford-upon-Avon: a few blissful days off the treadmill

July 8, 2011 By Ellen

Shakespeare’s bedroom windae Juliet yelling out of the window Watching life flow by Swan lock My bucket list got a little shorter this week. Mum decided to help me achieve one ambition by organising a trip to see the RSC at Stratford-upon-Avon, and inviting Supersister along too. It was a splendid couple of days of […]

These are a few of my favourite things

May 16, 2011 By Ellen

King’s Theatre Glasgow So it was The Sound of music on Saturday. The big Boys and I up in the Gods because I’d left it too late to get nearer seats. After a while the weird stuff my new varifocals were doing and the rustling and banging of the matinee cheap seats didn’t matter, we […]