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!!
The apartment window shots are breathtaking!! xx
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