One of the guys I met at the LSF sent an e-mail round (thanks Mike) about a Channel 4 script competition. I need a major rewrite but I am tempted by it, despite the short deadline.
But I took a night off to go and watch the Magic Flute at the Liverpool Empire with my friend Di. You could describe the Magic Flute as a savage custody battle with some musical instruments thrown in. The set was really imaginative - a room where the walls are painted with cloudy blue skies and contain numerous doors. Most entertaining though were the other members of the Temple of Wisdom dressed heat to foot in orange suits and bowler hats. Does this make Sarastro an operatic Uncle Billy? Is the Queen of the Night of the opposite persuasion (stunning singing by her)? Who knows. It did have that wonderful pantomime quality that all good Magic Flutes should have.
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