Play: Ghosts
Flew back to London last night - on Ryanair , because the time wasn't too late, for once. As I left Stansted , on the Stansted Express , it occurred to me that it's been an age since I was last on it! Since Christmas, I've either been flying to Heathrow , or I do remember flying by Stansted once, but the Stansted Express was out of order. Anyway, I caught a bus almost straight away, and was home by midnight. Result..! Tonight, back with Up in the Cheap Seats for Ghosts , a contemporary reimagining of the play by Ibsen , at the Lyric Hammersmith . Stars Victoria Smurfit as the mother. Tube it was, of course - and one fellow was most disappointed I wouldn't let him surrender his seat: but well, I was changing soon! Now, if it'd been the longer leg.. Anyway, I got a seat for that one. The fellow I tend to eat with beforehand when we're going to the same play joined me again this evening, and we headed for The William Morris (Hammersmith) ...