Paul in London

BETHNAL GREEN , originally uploaded by the_moog . Those Bethnal Green rodents are good chameleons...

Source: www.royalcourttheatre.com Saturday night I found myself with Fliss at Rhinoceros at the Royal Court . I figured any play where pachyderms spontaneously appear and start running around the stage is my kind of show. Besides, I had studied it in high school so I knew it already. Fliss on the other hand declined to investigate further then knowing it was one of those weird-ass plays that Paul drags her to from time to time, but since it was my birthday she was bound to put up with it. Our evening started out as a comedy of manners as Fliss thought my paté starter for dinner looked like dog food (it did). Well that's those Sloan Square bistros for you. But during the second act the evening had taken its absurdist tone, as she leaned over to me and whispered, "You didn't tell me there was going to be full-frontal nudity in this". Well I didn't know that was going to be the case either. She declined to answer whether it was the first time she had seen a middle-a...

220920072512 , originally uploaded by Paul-in-London . Theatre dust thanks to the sets being smashed by a rhinoceros... More later...

Man #1: Look you are a 50 year old man. Deal with it. Man #2: Yeah yeah yeah... Shush.

Midweek theatre this week entailed going to the Greenwich Theatre to see a 30th anniversary production of Bouncers. For somebody turning 32 this week I figured I wasn't showing my age as much as this production. Sure the music had been updated and the cultural references had been too. But a night out had never seen so dated. If they were updating the play surely there should have been experiences of bouncers patting people down for knives, turning a blind eye to the GHB usage, and making sure everyone is drinking out of plastic cups if they are on the footpath. Alas it wasn't to be. Essentially the play is an extended comic routine involving four men who are bouncers and their experiences picking up women and observing men at pubs. It's meant to be hilarious but I suspect that depends on how much you have drunk at the bar. The four men as women seemed to be collectively channelling John Inman. I would have preferred it to remain a period piece but that might have been a t...

IT'S HARDER TO HOLD YOUR PINT WHEN YOU'RE STONED , originally uploaded by the_moog . Not sure what the story is about but it probably doesn't matter. The South London Press is an entertaining read for those who like to read lovingly retyped press releases and filler before the ads for Foxtons ...

160920072484 , originally uploaded by Paul-in-London . Admiring some of the best architecture London has to offer as part of London Open House weekend ... In (informal) architectural terms it is called "big penis structures"... Goldfinger (the architect) obviously had some issues there... They don't build 'em like that anymore...