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Tonight I went to see Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Radio Stage show.
For some reason I found it very emotional. St Davids Hall, which reminds me of both the school hall in Fishguard and The Theatre Gwaun in Fishguard, is a really good venue, but for those reasons immediately had me back in time.
I still love Douglas Adams and fervently wish I could have met him at some stage. The staging of the show was brilliant. There is a five piece band on stage doing the music (Pink Floyd into The DrWho theme was very good but very strange) and a large ensemble with all the sound effects and some bits of nonsense. Phil Jupitus did the voice of the Guide and at one point came on as the dish of the day at Milliways (at which point I thought he'd been watching some videos of Graham because he was wearing something very closely resembling the P.O.D.). Loved it all.
But I felt I was catapulted back to Starmores newsagents on the square in Fishguard and the first time I picked up the first book. How I read it continuously, even whilst cooking dinner, which was not a good idea and couldn't wait for the next. And how somehow it changed my life.
He writes for me. He writes in a way that I find comfortable, comforting. He sees the world as I see it. Sees the humour that I see.Speaks directly to me.
I was married with a child, I was young and yet I felt that was all there would ever be. Horizons one inch high. Then here was someone like me. There were people in the world like me. It was a revelation. I wasn't alone. There were places to go and ways to get there. I didn't move far for a long time but inside I grew and stretched .Bit by bit I realised ,I built myself up always reaching further. Now I own my own improbability drive.
More than thirty years on in a theatre in Cardiff, so much life between then and now. Thanks in a large part to Douglas Adams writing me a Guide.
For some reason I found it very emotional. St Davids Hall, which reminds me of both the school hall in Fishguard and The Theatre Gwaun in Fishguard, is a really good venue, but for those reasons immediately had me back in time.
I still love Douglas Adams and fervently wish I could have met him at some stage. The staging of the show was brilliant. There is a five piece band on stage doing the music (Pink Floyd into The DrWho theme was very good but very strange) and a large ensemble with all the sound effects and some bits of nonsense. Phil Jupitus did the voice of the Guide and at one point came on as the dish of the day at Milliways (at which point I thought he'd been watching some videos of Graham because he was wearing something very closely resembling the P.O.D.). Loved it all.
But I felt I was catapulted back to Starmores newsagents on the square in Fishguard and the first time I picked up the first book. How I read it continuously, even whilst cooking dinner, which was not a good idea and couldn't wait for the next. And how somehow it changed my life.
He writes for me. He writes in a way that I find comfortable, comforting. He sees the world as I see it. Sees the humour that I see.Speaks directly to me.
I was married with a child, I was young and yet I felt that was all there would ever be. Horizons one inch high. Then here was someone like me. There were people in the world like me. It was a revelation. I wasn't alone. There were places to go and ways to get there. I didn't move far for a long time but inside I grew and stretched .Bit by bit I realised ,I built myself up always reaching further. Now I own my own improbability drive.
More than thirty years on in a theatre in Cardiff, so much life between then and now. Thanks in a large part to Douglas Adams writing me a Guide.