Paul in London: 02/01/2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Food: Scenes from lunch in soho Saturday

The cannoli in Princi is great (albeit sometimes an odd shape). Great place to eat on Wardour Street in Soho. And good value too. The only thing to watch out is for the those who linger longer after eating their lunch and those who want to sit down and eat. Like right now... And ask you if you have finished as they would like your seat...

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Hot news this week in London

img_0802, originally uploaded by Paul-in-London.

Well it wasn't hot custard, it was green... And it dominated breakfast television coverage on an obviously slow news day... By the weekend the well-spoken campaigner against Heathrow's third runway was arrested...

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Theatre: Over There

Saturday evening I caught Over There, which is a short play having a short run at the Royal Court. The play by Mark Ravenhill, is an interesting enough premise. It is about identical twins separated when their mother flees with one of them to the west. Following the fall of East Germany they meet again. What then takes place is exploring the differences between two ways of life with a smattering of food play and matching underwear thrown in for good measure.

The battle of ideas, socialism versus capitalism and consumerism are brought to the fore and the acting by Harry Treadaway and Luke Treadaway was excellent. Actually at times you did feel for them as the play became more and more harrowing and they had to do weirder and weirder stuff in their matching underwear. I also wondered whether the play could have benefited from more creative direction and imaginative lighting. At times it also felt like it was revisiting the "shock and awe" of Shopping and Fucking. But I guess that at a running length of 65 minutes we can't have everything.

This is part of a series of plays to commemorate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and runs until later this month. Here's hoping that there are more of these short plays in future. It is great stuff and even if you don't entirely get the matching underwear and food smears, it can be over before you have to think too much about it...

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Hot News This Week in London...

London Redraws Tube Map, originally uploaded by Annie Mole.

Moving from the Circle line to the lasso line...

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Scenes from SW9 Tuesday

The latest in pointing out the obvious signs read "pickpockets operate in this area". So to test that assertion I took a photo with my iPhone. Darn those pickpockets, they must have been on their lunch break