05MAR25: The Seagull (Chekhov / Duncan Macmillan and Thomas Ostermeier) -- Barbican( Read more... )
07MAR25: Mitsuko Uchida -- Royal Festival Hall
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08MAR25: The Magic Flute (Mozart / John Savournin and David Eaton) -- Wilton's Music Hall
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13MAR25: Polite Society (Manzoor, 2023) -- Netflix
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14MAR25: Mickey17 (Bong Joon Ho, 2025) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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20MAR25: Helios (Luke Jerram) -- Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
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20MAR25: The Outrun (Fingscheidt, 2024) -- Netflix
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21MAR25: Flow (Zilbalodis, 2024) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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22MAR25: Tarot -- Warburg Institute
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22MAR25: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare / Jamie Lloyd) -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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23MAR25: Requiem (Mozart) -- Blackheath Halls
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Current Mood: full

02NOV24: Oedipus (Sophocles / Icke) – Wyndham's Theatre
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07NOV24: Paddington (King, 2014) – Netflix
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08NOV24: Paddington in Peru (Wilson, 2024) – Greenwich PictureHouse
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09NOV24: The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan) – Wilton's Music Hall
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13NOV24: Paul Simon's Graceland (African Gospel Choir) – Barbican
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14NOV24: Paddington 2 (King, 2017) – Netflix
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16NOV24: Doctor Strangelove (Iannucci, Kubrick) – Criterion Theatre
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21NOV24: The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki, 2023) – Netflix
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22NOV24: Songs of Miura Anjin (Feargal Mostyn-Williams countertenor, Satoshi Kubo piano) – Stone House
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23NOV24: Gladiator II (Scott, 2024) – Greenwich PictureHouse
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28NOV24: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) – Royal Opera House
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30NOV24: ~~L'Elisir d'Amore~~The Elixir of Love (Donizetti) – English National Opera
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Current Mood: satisfied

03OCT24: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Fabian, 2022) -- Netflix
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16OCT24: The Last Dinner Party -- Eventim Apollo
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18OCT24: Timestalker (Lowe, 2024) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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24OCT24: The Sapphires (Blair, 2012) -- Netflix
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25OCT24: Emilia Pérez (Audiard, 2024) -- PictureHouse Central
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26OCT24: Fidelio (Beethoven, 1805) -- Royal Opera House
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29OCT24: Macbeth (Shakespeare, 1606) -- Harold Pinter Theatre
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Current Mood: cheerful

06SEP24: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton, 2024) -- Greenwich Picturehouse
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12SEP24: Crew (Krishnan, 2024) -- Netflix
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13SEP24: Sahra Halgan, Greenleaf Baptist Church
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15SEP24: Berlioz / Rachmaninoff / Saint-Saens -- Barbican Hall
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26SEP24: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019) -- Netflix
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28SEP24: Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni, 1890) -- Blackheath Halls Opera
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29SEP24: Lee (Kuras, 2023) -- Greenwich Picturehouse
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Current Mood: calm

01AUG24: The Imaginary (Momose, 2023) -- Netflix
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05AUG24: I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) -- Greenwich Picturehouse
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07-12AUG24: Glasgow Worldcon
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15AUG24: Nope (Peele, 2022) -- Netflix
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22AUG24: Ford vs. Ferrari (Mangold, 2019) -- Netflix
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29AUG24: The Guest (Wingard, 2014) -- Netflix
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Current Mood: relieved

06JUN24: Tallis Scholars -- Cadogan Hall
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13JUN24: Laapataa Ladies (Kiran Rao, 2023) - Netflix
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15JUN24: The Sorcerer (Gilbert and Sullivan / Charles Court Opera) - Wilton's Music Hall
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20JUN24: Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki, 2023) - Netflix
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26JUN24: Missa Solemnis (Beethoven): Parliament Choir and Southbank Sinfonia -- Royal Festival Hall
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27JUN24: Hit Man (Linklater, 2023) - Netflix
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28JUN24: Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos, 2024) - Greenwich PictureHouse
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Current Mood: sore

07MAR24: Cold Comfort Farm (Schlesinger, 1995) -- BBC iPlayer
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09MAR24: Fairport Convention -- Union Chapel
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14MAR24: Nyad (Chin / Vasarhenyi, 2023) -- Netflix
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16MAR24: The Barber of Seville (Rossini, arr. Charles Court Opera) -- Wiltons Music Hall
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17MAR24: Requiem (Faure) / The Music Makers (Elgar) -- Blackheath Halls
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28MAR24: Maudie (Walsh, 2016) -- Netflix
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Current Mood: calm

02FEB24: Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) -- Barbican
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03FEB24: Coalescence (Paul Cocksedge)-- Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College
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08FEB24: The Card Counter (Shrader, 2021) -- Netflix
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15FEB24: The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) -- Netflix
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16FEB24: The Taste of Things (Anh Hung Tran, 2023) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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21FEB24: Rhiannon Giddens -- Barbican
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22FEB24: Filibus (Roncoroni, 1915) -- YouTube
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23FEB24: Legion: life in the Roman Army -- British Museum
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24FEB24: Wicked Little Letters (Sharrock, 2023) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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29FEB24: Boudica: Queen of War (Johnson, 2023) -- Netflix
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Current Mood: okay

02SEP23: Jurassic Park: 30th Anniversary (Spielberg, 1993) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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07SEP23: The Two Popes (Meirelles, 2019) -- Netflix
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10SEP23: Unthanks, Barbican
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14SEP23: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Sharpe, 2021) -- Netflix
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21SEP23: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Reynolds, 1991) -- Netflix
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28SEP23: Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010) -- Netflix
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30SEP23: Semele (Handel / Congreve, 1743) -- Blackheath Halls
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Current Mood: relaxed

03AUG23: Badhaai Do (Kulkarni, 2022) -- Netflix
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10AUG23: They Cloned Tyrone (Taylor, 2023) -- Netflix
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12AUG23: Loyola (Zipoli, 1720) -- El Parnaso Hyspano, Arcola Theatre
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31AUG23: Mascots (Guest, 2016) -- Netflix
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Current Mood: early

01JUL23: The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan, Sasha Regan) -- Wilton's Music Hall
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06JUL23: Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (Canet, 2023) -- Netflix
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10JUL23: Illusionaries: Memories of a Dead Poet (Arash Irandoust)
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13JUL23: Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (Cantu / Lambert, 2023) -- Netflix
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14JUL23: Naomi Novik at Waterstones Piccadilly
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15JUL23: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Mangold, 2023) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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20JUL23: I, Tonya (Gillespie, 2017) -- Netflix
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21JUL23: Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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21JUL23: Barbie (Gerwig, 2023) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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27JUL23: Kabaret Nusantara -- Wilton's Music Hall
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Current Mood: sleepy

02MAR23: The Wedding Party 2 (Akinmolayan, 2018) -- Netflix( Read more... )

03MAR23: What's Love Got to Do With It (Kapur, 2022) -- PictureHouse( Read more... )

09MAR23: Troll (Uthaug, 2022) -- Netflix( Read more... )

12MAR23: Orlando (Potter, 1992) + Look at Me (Potter, 2022) + Sally Potter / Tilda Swinton intro -- PictureHouse( Read more... )

16MAR23: Okja (Bong Joon Ho, 2017) -- Netflix( Read more... )

17MAR23: 65 (Beck & Woods, 2023) -- PictureHouse( Read more... )

23MAR23: We Have a Ghost (Landon, 2023) -- Netflix( Read more... )

25MAR23: Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sullivan) -- Wiltons Music Hall( Read more... )

29MAR23: Ursula Le Guin's Space Crone: So Mayer, SF Said and Kate Hardie in conversation -- Barbican Library( Read more... )

30MAR23: Akhenaten (Philip Glass) -- English National Opera( Read more... )

31MAR23: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Daley & Goldstein, 2023) -- PictureHouse( Read more... )

Current Mood: belated

In November I read no fiction and wrote no reviews. (Did you miss me?) I did write 50,000 words of protonovel.
Belatedly, October!

01OCT22: Candide (Bernstein) -- Blackheath Halls Opera
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14OCT22: Werewolf By Night (Giacchino, 2022) -- Disney+
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23OCT22: My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988) -- Netflix
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27OCT22: The Good Liar (Condon, 2019) -- Netflix
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28OCT22: My Neighbo(u)r Totoro (Royal Shakespeare Company) -- Barbican
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also She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (various, 2022) -- Disney+
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Current Mood: accomplished

03SEP21: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Cretton, 2021) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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11SEP21: Paradise (Sophocles / Kae Tempest) -- National Theatre
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16SEP21: The Aeronauts (Harper, 2019) -- Amazon Prime
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23SEP21: Count Me In (Sommer, 2021) -- Netflix
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28SEP21: Venus and Adonis (John Blow) -- Blackheath Halls Opera
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Current Mood: lazy

05AUG21: The Fast and the Furious: Hobbs and Shaw (Netflix)
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07AUG21: La Traviata (Verdi) (Glyndebourne Live)
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12AUG21: Love and Monsters (Netflix)
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13AUG21: Free Guy (Greenwich PictureHouse)
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19AUG21: Dark Waters (Netflix)
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22AUG21: Dido's Ghost (Edinburgh International Festival)
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23AUG21: Rosetti's Women (Lemon Squeeze Productions, Edinburgh Fringe)
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23AUG21: Aca-Betrayal (Illuminations, Edinburgh Fringe)
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23AUG21: Black Country New Road (Edinburgh International Festival)
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24AUG21: Damon Albarn (Edinburgh International Festival)
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Current Mood: exanimate

03JUL19: Spiderman: Far From Home, Greenwich Odeon
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20JUL19: The Dead Don't Die, Greenwich Picturehouse
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16-21JUL19: La Belle Helene (Offenbach), Blackheath Halls
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25JUL19: Noises Off (Frayn), Lyric Hammersmith
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27JUL19: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Lloyd-Webber/Rice), London Palladium
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Current Mood: calm

01FEB19: How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World -- Greenwich Odeon
"Just keep flying until we find the end of the world."
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02FEB19: Burne-Jones, Tate Britain
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14FEB19: Hamilton, Palace Theatre
Third time( Read more... )

15FEB19: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Greenwich Picturehouse
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22FEB19: The Monstrous Child (Gavin Higgins, Francesca Simon), Linbury Theatre
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Current Mood: accomplished

A quiet month, to make up for August ...

18SEP18: Hamilton (Lewis), Kings Head Theatre
Saw this in Edinburgh: second time around was just as good, and K (possibly the target audience, given mix of F1 and Hamilton) liked it too.

28SEP18: Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) -- OperaUpClose, Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
Splendid concert performance, in English, of one of Donizetti's less popular operas. It's not in my top five of his works, but it is predictably tuneful, layered and full of bright cheerful arias and ensemble pieces about (in this case) treachery, jealousy, doomed romance and public execution. OperaUpClose (six singers, who possibly outnumbered the musicians) conveyed a lot of plot with occasional gestures and very little movement. I'll look out for them again.

'Autumn' at the Asylum, Peckham -- Multiphonic Arts
The highlight for me was Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and Piano by Russian cellist Luba Ulybysheva and pianist James Kreiling: what a fascinating piece, full of contrast and drama. The rest of the programme was also very good -- I liked the poetry readings, and Langston Hughes' short story 'Early Autumn', and the way that Debussy segued into Thelonious Monk made me happy.

Current Mood: calm

02AUG18: Ant-Man and the Wasp
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08AUG18: Translations, NT
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Edinburgh!

Things in bold are my favourites. Star ratings were awarded immediately after each show, and my opinion may have changed in hindsight.

19AUG18: Edith Hall on Aristotle, Edinburgh Book Festival ★★★★
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19AUG18: Rachmaninov Vespers ★★★★
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20AUG18: Elizabethan ★★★★
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20AUG18: Violetta ★★★★★
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20AUG18: Vulvarine ★★★★★
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20AUG18: Shackleton's Stowaway ★★★★
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21AUG18: Reverend Richard Cole: Confessions ★
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21AUG18: Marvel-us: All the Marvel Movies ★★★
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21AUG18: Hamilton (Lewis) ★★★★★
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22AUG18: The Electra Legacy ★★★
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22AUG18: Mitch Benn: Doing It on Purpose ★★★
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22AUG18: Bacchae ★★★★
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22AUG18: We've Got Each Other ★★★★
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23AUG18: Spoiler Alert ★★★
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23AUG18: A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery ★★★★
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23AUG18: Bacchanals ★★★★★
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23AUG18: Midsummer ★★★★★
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24AUG18: Brexit ★★★
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24AUG18: Casus: You and I ★★★★★
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24AUG18: Attrape Moi ★★★
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24AUG18: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
★★★★
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A great finale to a great week of culture (during which I also caught up with several friends). But I could not do all this, so intensively, in Real Life.

Current Mood: exhausted

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