My first week back in town meant getting straight down to The Landor Theatre in North Clapham where a new small musical would be premiered called Loving Art. I was rather excited about this for several reasons. Firstly, the Landor has a reputation for good musicals and secondly, it would be a good chance to gossip with Scott about what had happened since I had been away – particularly on Doctor Who and I’d Do Anything. That part of the evening went well and Scott bought me up to date but sadly Loving Art was execrable. Utter trash that finally changed my mind about the Landor. I had seen a couple of things there recently and none of it had been good but I felt it might have been a glitch. Nope. Loving Art has won the award this year so far for Turkey on the Fringe.
The following evening – keep up – I went to the newly renovated Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton to see Hannah and Martin. No, these aren’t a couple of installation artists it is a play. Could I get anyone to go with me? Fat chance! On paper this one is a stinker reeking of headlines such as ‘thought provoking’, ‘turmoil’ and ‘thematic’. The extremely un-sexy PR, and there is no other way this play can be promoted, is in fact a real diamond. A jewel of a story with a relatively strong cast and a second act that had me on the edge of my seat – gripping stuff. It’s a shame that the set looked like it had been put together that afternoon. I should have known it was going to be good when I finally realised that nobody was going to be there with me.
No fair! I wanted to come!
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