This week we were planning on filming elements for Attempts On Her Life, both of our performers in the theatre and some background visuals at Manchester Airport. We all suspected that airports wouldn’t be too keen on having a bunch of students running around in these troubled times, and today we got the no-ahead.
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The wonderful Lorelei King was in the first of a new series of Jonathan Creek tonight. The episode itself was a surprising return to form, and Ms King lent her considerable presence and silk-smooth voice to the ridiculous set-ups.
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Today we went to Salford to see the 2D>3D exhibition that’s toured into The Lowry, and attend talks on and around the subject of using digitial (read: computer) technology for theatre design.
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Sometimes when I write an entry, the title springs directly into my mind, before I’ve even started.
This is not one of those times.
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The dentist that I’ve been going to for much of my life retired sometime last year, and his replacement is much keener on techniques that are certainly doing a much more thorough job whilst also being a lot more painful. I was never one of those kids (possibly just stereotypes) that was nervous of the dentist because I’ve never had anything done to my teeth, and I suppose I’m going to have to take this new level of preventitive treatment with gritted teeth.
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I’m watching Jasper Carrot on The Frank Skinner Show and it strikes me just how well the lighting and set work to make the people on it seem so vibrant and alive: there’s a glowing blue back wall that makes those in front of it jump out without seeming at all orangey. Good stuff.
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So I’m back at my parents’ house for Christmas, and my net-access is reduced to the sort of click-’connect’-then-download-mail-then-click-’disconnect’ behaviour that I used to find so utterly ridiculous.
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I was largely ignoring Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, thinking that I maybe had enough things to try and watch.
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LA Story is on TV: a lovely, lovely film. I first saw it just over a year ago, if memory serves…
But I need to sleep now. Tomorrow we have to present our King Lear designs, and there’s a whole lot more essay to get done.
