Friday, March 09, 2012
Two evenings out,
We have been out two evenings running.
They were two very different evenings.
This evening we have been to the post card club - I was quite looking forward to it.
But no - this month the speaker was not quite up to scratch.
Her subject matter could have been interesting - the Cramp family, some of whom settled in Horsham.
Disappointingly, our speaker read her script. She had a slight lisp, read too quickly and allowed her voice to drop at the end of sentences. Thus many of us found it difficult to follow the early history of the Cramp Family, who hailed from the Bexhill area of Sussex.
It was Jury Cramp who set up his business in Horsham. He had trained as an optician and clock maker in London and worked for a while in Huddersfield.
He joined his brother in Horsham in 1872.
The clock and watch shop, the opticians and jewellers were a well known feature of West Street with a pair of large spectacles hanging outside.
She (the speaker) had got quite close to the end - oh please let it be close to the end! - when her computer crashed out. It needed re-booting.
Our chairman intervened and suggested it might be a good time to break for a cup of tea.
Maybe we could just leave it at that was the general air within the hall......but no, she had more to read. In fact I think she did rather hurry through and just picked bits out from the script.
It could have been so much better.
Last night, however, couldn't have been any better.
Though, our nephew Antony has reported that tonight's performance was even better.
We went to The Barn Theatre. Perhaps they felt duty bound to warn prospective theatre goers that it contained "scenes of an adult content". I had also been warned that there was bad language.
I think I feared something brutal and negative from a play with these 4 characters - a teenage girl with anorexia, a teenage boy who was painfully shy, the girls' mother who just saw life as she wanted it to be and a middle aged paedophile who had been in jail. This last was our nephew.
I didn't object to the language either. The characters were being completely natural.I enjoyed the play - it was serious, amusing and quite moving as the dramatist and the cast explored the themes of love, understanding and being non judgemental.
The cast were so superb - they made their characters very believable and we started to care about them. The director had adapted the play superbly. So sex was not rampant, it was with the lights out! And we never did get to hear what the paedophile had on his lap top - only that it disgusted the teenage girl. Maybe it would have been more brutal in the original production at The Royal Court.
"The Sugar Syndrome" had been a bit of a risk for The Barn, I guess. It has paid off - I am sure respect for The Barn can only have increased as a result of this successful play.
Tomorrow I shall start blogging about our lovely day out yesterday.
They were two very different evenings.
This evening we have been to the post card club - I was quite looking forward to it.
But no - this month the speaker was not quite up to scratch.
Her subject matter could have been interesting - the Cramp family, some of whom settled in Horsham.
Disappointingly, our speaker read her script. She had a slight lisp, read too quickly and allowed her voice to drop at the end of sentences. Thus many of us found it difficult to follow the early history of the Cramp Family, who hailed from the Bexhill area of Sussex.
It was Jury Cramp who set up his business in Horsham. He had trained as an optician and clock maker in London and worked for a while in Huddersfield.
He joined his brother in Horsham in 1872.
The clock and watch shop, the opticians and jewellers were a well known feature of West Street with a pair of large spectacles hanging outside.
She (the speaker) had got quite close to the end - oh please let it be close to the end! - when her computer crashed out. It needed re-booting.
Our chairman intervened and suggested it might be a good time to break for a cup of tea.
Maybe we could just leave it at that was the general air within the hall......but no, she had more to read. In fact I think she did rather hurry through and just picked bits out from the script.
It could have been so much better.
Last night, however, couldn't have been any better.
Though, our nephew Antony has reported that tonight's performance was even better.
We went to The Barn Theatre. Perhaps they felt duty bound to warn prospective theatre goers that it contained "scenes of an adult content". I had also been warned that there was bad language.
I think I feared something brutal and negative from a play with these 4 characters - a teenage girl with anorexia, a teenage boy who was painfully shy, the girls' mother who just saw life as she wanted it to be and a middle aged paedophile who had been in jail. This last was our nephew.
I didn't object to the language either. The characters were being completely natural.I enjoyed the play - it was serious, amusing and quite moving as the dramatist and the cast explored the themes of love, understanding and being non judgemental.
The cast were so superb - they made their characters very believable and we started to care about them. The director had adapted the play superbly. So sex was not rampant, it was with the lights out! And we never did get to hear what the paedophile had on his lap top - only that it disgusted the teenage girl. Maybe it would have been more brutal in the original production at The Royal Court.
"The Sugar Syndrome" had been a bit of a risk for The Barn, I guess. It has paid off - I am sure respect for The Barn can only have increased as a result of this successful play.
Tomorrow I shall start blogging about our lovely day out yesterday.
