The Young Actors Company has three productions on this week at the Mumford Theatre, at Anglia Ruskin:

• Black Hands/Dead Section, by Van Badham: 7pm, 21st and 23rd March
  
• Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson: 7pm, 20th March, and 2pm, 23rd March
  
• The White Rose and the Swastika, by Adrian Flynn: 7pm, 19th and 22nd March.

Each production is from ( Read more... )

So, I'm currently sitting in the (rather nice) basement cafe of a church in Richmond, where Mitch Benn has been beavering away for the last 22 and a half hours, writing an album of comedy songs from scratch. Another one and a half hours of the allotted 24 left, and I think you should all go and encourage him by sponsoring him in aid of Red Nose Day ( Read more... )

(I promise!)

University of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra
St. John's College Chapel, 8pm, tonight

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, with me as soloist
Schumann: Symphony No.3

... to which you should all come!

On this Thursday evening, there's another UCPO concert, in St John's college chapel, starting at 8pm.

In common with last term's concert, I will be playing a violin concerto. Unlike last term's concert, this time I have been allowed to practise beforehand[1]. This is a Good Thing, since the concerto I'm playing ( Read more... )

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado

Mumford Theatre (ARU), Cambridge
Wednesday 29th February - Saturday 3rd March, 7.30pm; Matinée Saturday at 2.30pm (this week!)
(I won't be playing on Wednesday, but will be there the rest of the time).

University of Cambridge Philharmonic OrchestraWest Road Concert Hall, Cambridge ( Read more... )

Dear brain,

If we're going to have nice fluffy dreams (my tiny baby was chattering away to me enthusiastically at a few days old, I think), could they please not end by dreaming the sound of my Extremely Loud Doorbell at 4am? It's really cold downstairs at the moment...

Thanks ever so,
Deborah

In other news BT's whelk stall is still inexplicably on ( Read more... )

In case anyone missed it and is interested, BBC 7 has a dramatisation of Guards! Guards! being broadcast. The first episode was broadcast yesterday (6pm), and it'll be on iPlayer for the next six days ( Read more... )

Once again I seem to have left this terribly late...

Is anyone looking for a roomshare for GaFilk in January? I'm told I'm a reasonable roommate (although I'm not the tidiest of people); I'm a non-smoker, and allergic to smoke. I'd prefer to share with a woman, if possible.

In the absence of any answers, I'll go ahead and book a room on

I've just noticed that at some point in the last few weeks, I've been added by a few people. If I recognise your name and know you, I've added you back, but there are a few people (brighton64, johncoxon and dagodfadda) who I don't think I know. Would you like to let me know in a (screened) comment here whether I should know you from somewhere, or whether this was a completely ( Read more... )

For their gift day next weekend, Little St Mary's church have two performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury". The children and I are all singing, it will be lots of fun, and you should all come and see it ( Read more... )