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- Magic tricks for UK research council panel members (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: theatre
Secrets by hypnosis in a skimpy black swimsuit (Rousse)
The power of the hypnotist was such that I couldn’t remember my taxi journey to the theatre. I could, however, recall standing in a revealing skimpy black swimsuit spilling every secret of the vast fortune that I had accumulated over … Continue reading
Treatment of yellow fungus disease (Rousse)
I arrived a couple of minutes late to be admitted to the auditorium where TPR and some of our friends were in the audience of an Edinburgh Fringe theatre production. Luckily, there was a sudden unexpected power cut before the … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, auditorium, bearded dragon, contagious, cut, disease, Edinburgh, extra-marital, fatal, Friends, fungal, fungus, human, late, lecturer, lights, London, lover, party, polytechnic, power, reptile, skin, stage, theatre, TPR, treatment, yellow
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A clown, killer whales, and curvy bronzed buttocks (Rousse)
Thirty years on I rediscovered the dark-haired Italian man with whom I had been friendly in France in the 1980s. Now working as a professional clown, he lived on the French riviera in a small apartment that offered wonderful views of … Continue reading
Party date mix-up and chocolate Settlers of Catan (Rousse)
TPR caused chaos when he declared that we would host our Christmas party on Friday rather than Saturday due to the weather forecast. The last minute change meant that some people now couldn’t make the celebration, and there was a … Continue reading
President Donald Trump fails to attract inauguration ceremony audience in tatty Victorian theatre (Rousse)
In the basement of the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham, SPC and I learnt to program. I was surprised at the ease in which I could code. If only it were so easy to program domestic appliances at … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, basement, Birmingham University, boat, building, card, ceremony, colleague, Donald Trump, filthy, Front Row, identity, inauguration, Muirhead Tower, ocean, president, program, programming, sea, seat, security, staircase, theatre, threat, throne, ticket, United States of America, University of Birmingham, upper circle, US, USA, vessel, Washington, water, woman, wood, yellow
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Disgraced Labour MP leads theatre audience walk-out (Rousse)
As members of the audience left the show mid-performance GSX and I considered it legitimate to move closer to the stage and take a couple of vacated seats in the front row. The star of the show didn’t seem to … Continue reading
Travelling by minibus for tea with the Queen at Holyrood Palace (Rousse)
I was about to take my seat in the theatre when LF grabbed me from behind. ‘Hey’, she said, ‘Someone forgot the arrangement to meet outside!’ It was true. I had agreed to see her prior to the show, not … Continue reading
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Tagged artefact, autumn, biscuit, blue, brochure, bump, carpet, cream, crumb, donate, driver, Edinburgh, Elizabeth, family, flash, floor, fossil, ginger, Holyrood, hump, II, ink, leak, light, loch, manager, minibus, mirror, mountain, North Bridge, park, party, pen, puzzle, Queen, red, road, show, siren, snack, stage, stain, tea, theatre, travel, under-carriage, vehicle, Waterloo Place
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Danish avant garde drama disappoints Manchester audiences (Rousse)
We’d heard that the play was set in a railway carriage so TPR thought that the best place to sit would be the back of the stage. KA and I soon put him right, arguing that we didn’t want to … Continue reading
Showstopper stuns audience with juggling tricks (Rousse)
The Showstopper performers took comedy musical theatre to a new high with highly sophisticated improvised juggling in their latest show. From our third row seats KMcL, my sister J and I enjoyed it very much. J left early. She would … Continue reading
