The Adventure Continues


TT in the Blue Mountains and Sheldy in New York.

Culture Shock.





Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Miss Tovah Feldshuh

This evening we were honoured to have been taken to dinner by one of America's theatre icons.

The setting was The Harvard Club which was so classy. It looked like the main dining hall of Hogwarts. I have never seen as many elk heads in one place, only upstaged by a gigantic set of elephant tusks under which Miss F dreamed of making her marriage her vows before she settled for a more traditional setting at the Plaza. The food was divine and the concierge had seen "Priscilla" so we could not put a foot wrong!  Meeting Tovah was like falling into family.

We then all went on to St Anne's in Brooklyn to see




It was a devastating piece, returning to New York for its third season. Ear shattering explosions, a testosterone drenched cast of young Scots actors presenting physical theatre of the most imaginative kind.


Incredible images including two soldiers emerging from a billiard table; a battalion receiving letters from home, the contents of which which they silently and privately enacted through a form of sign language; a history of the Black Watch in battle as told through the balletically staged dressing and undressing of a narrator in all their different uniforms through history;


 a shocking and ineffably sad aerial ballet depicting a suicide bombing; and finally a stunningly staged parade drill which saw the cast creating endless formations even as they ran to assist comrades falling injured and exhausted.


Tovah's god-daughter, Tali lives with her husband Craig in the clocktower building round the corner from St Anne's so we went up and I was able to photograph the same views I had seen a few weeks back but from up higher. Their apartment was jaw droppingly fab!



What a great great night we had!!

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