So Betrayal is Pinter's most accessible play? I can sort of see why - it's witty and bubbly and kinda fun and the version I saw was (#accidentalpalindrome) well acted and on a decent set, but - and I'm not sure how to put this that doesn't make me sound like a Philistine - the story's a bit rubbish. If it had gone forward rather than backward it would just be a hackneyed subplot of a mediocre soap opera. Overrated.
Also saw David Walliams in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It takes some doing to make a Shakespeare character seem like it had come out of a Little Britain sketch but turns out it's achievable. This was my second AMND of the year: I preferred the other one.
Have I seen too many plays this year? So many that I've just become even more of a cynic (I didn't even bother reporting back on that turgid Much Ado that I saw a couple of months back, by not committing it to pixels I'd hoped that I could erase it, turns out it's lingering on in the back of my brain, being my go to reference for anything boring or bad). Or after seeing Chimerica is everything else just not up to scratch?
In other news, I recently went up that Shard thing. I liked it, although it was expensive. Hadn't realised quite how much of London was made up of train track.
Tonight was possibly the last time that the original line up of Quiz Team Aguilera will be doing the White Horse Quiz. Been doing it most weeks for the last eighteen months, but now a quarter of the team is due to eject a baby from their womb, which is going to hinder quiz participation somewhat. We won (which hasn't happened all that often) which is quite a nice way to bow out...
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