Now Playing: Tina Turner - Goldeneye
Oh my GOD. Bombshells was so much fun!!
Now that I've gotten over my strange few days in the UK (I think I was actually jetlagged. I've been all over the western world this summer, but I get jetlagged on a two-day trip to Oxford. For god's sake. God help me when I get to Japan...) I can talk about how brilliant Caroline O'Connor is. I have been a fan of hers since about 1993 when I got a cd of West Side Story (she's the best Anita ever) and was then very excited when she popped up in Moulin Rouge.
In Edinburgh I was gutted not to get to see her one-woman show, Bombshells, thanks to the appalling ineptitude of the Assembly Rooms box-office staff, but I got to see the show in London. Yay! It's a set of six monologues - think Talking-Heads-meets-Steven-Berkoff-performed-by-Judy-Garland-on-speed and you've some idea - and it was wonderful. Anyone near London - GO SEE!!!
I got what I thought was a personal email from RuPaul the other day (many of you will remember the excitment at Christmas when the last one arrived!) but it turned out to be a request to buy her album. Which I would, if it were even remotely available in Ireland... Maybe I'll get it somewhere on my travels...
I'm so excited about Ninagawa's Hamlet. I can't actually believe I'm flying (no doubt in a tin can with wings) to Plymouth just to see this play. I'm sure it'll be wonderful...
