R's rue

  As people know I’m a big Theatre fan. I’m also very clear in my mind how people should act and behave in the theatre. ie there should be a mutual respect for their fellow audience and for the performers on stage. At the end of lockdown I remember posting about being in the audience of the musical Far From Away where I experienced , what I can only describe as a small touch of mass hysteria . where the house erupted with a spontaneous cheer and standing applause after the very first song.   There was a hunger for that large scale experience  A hunger and a need for it. Recently we are hearing of episodes of bad behaviour in musical theatre productions where mainly drunken women in the audience have stopped the performances by singing along with the leads. Now, whilst I deplore behaviour like this ( and believe me I’m not shy at saying so) I do have a degree of sympathy for the women involved who , like us all have returned to live theatre in order to have a go...

  For this offering, I wanted to resurrect a blogpost that I had created on April 10th in a previous year. As it happens and by pure chance, it appears that I have rarely blogged on this date before but I found the following post from April 10th, 2012.  At that time and with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I was in the middle of an extended  blogging fantasy which involved the creation of a faraway tropical sanctuary  for escaped bloggers. We were creating a brand new country known as Blogland and a lot of my posts were intended to support the myth.  Several other bloggers came on board and enjoyed the ride. I suppose the idea  began with this post from  November 13th 2011 and ended with this post from  July 3rd 2012 . If interested, you can easily look back upon the Blogland journey by checking out posts from between those dates but I should warn you that the Blogland story is interspersed with more typical blogging fayre. Blogland Perhaps it...