Travel, Theatre, Music, Cricket, Tennis, Writing, Life
This was special. We liked the sound of it. We hadn’t heard of anyone to do with it. As it happens, John Simm was well known, but for TV and therefore not to us.
Paul Miller has gone on to be the head honcho at the Orange Tree Theatre, where he is working wonders now (as I write in the mid teenies).
This is a great play and was a great production – click here for Bush archive.
The Stage loved it – click here.
Guardian loved it – click here.
Observer loved it – click here.
We loved it.
This was probably Kim and Micky’s idea…
…informed by the fact that Janie and I were constantly unavailable on Saturdays because we were going to the theatre.
Why don’t we all go and see…
…I can almost hear Kim suggesting to Janie.
Why not? I can imagine all of us agreeing to this with ease. This production soon became one of the hottest tickets in town, not least because model and celebrity Kelly Brook was playing the role of a pole/table dancer. Janie sorted out the tickets – presumably ahead of the reviews and brouhaha, £16.50 x 4 according to her diary…
…plus some very specific timings to get all of us from The Riverside to the Thai Bistro for supper after the show…
…as if we would need the heat of Tom Yum after the hot totty on show at The Riverside.
But who would have possibly imagined, at that time, that Janie would, a mere 17 years later, decide to give pole dancing a go herself, with considerable (albeit, mercifully, private) success.
Dominic Cavendish seems to have hated it…the Eye Contact play, I mean, not Janie’s pole dancing:
Eye Cavendish Telegraph 12 Dec 2000 The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Rachel Halliburton similarly, was disparaging:
Eye Halliburton Standard 7 Dec 2000 Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Irving Wardle was a bit kinder, right at the end of this three review piece:
Far Away Wardle Sunday Telegraph 3 Dec 2000 Sunday Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
But did we have a good evening? Of course we did. We saw a show and had dinner with Kim and Micky. Simples.
