Things are looking up a bit. We had a good SE1 lunch at Sorriso,though the service was rather leisurely, and Romy turned up with the draft of the newsletter. Later, Romy managed to join me at Sensational, and purchased a couple of rather super outfits. I dashed back home and changed before setting off to the Playhouse theatre to see La Cage aux Folles, which we had missed when it was on at the Menier Chocolate Factory. It was a real treat. Amazingly Douglas Hodge, a very large butch looking actor, played Albin. I had last seen him in The Revenger's Tragedy at the National. A bit of a contrast. Actually this is not true, I mixed him up with Rory Kinnear who he slightly resembles. Anyway, the whole musical was very good indeed with some hilarious dancers and everybody came out of the theatre smiling and chatting to each other. "just what we needed after all the financial gloom and doom" one guy said to me. I had to agree.
No taxis available so came home on the tube with a lot of drunk people dressed as hospital casualties with 'wounds' and bandages. Thought it must be a stag night and then realised it was Hallowe'en. At Elephant, a circle of teenagers were sitting cross-legged on the ground, passing a bottle around. They were all dressed as ghouls of one kind or another with whited faces, blacked eyes and punked up hair.
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