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Thursday September 24, 2015
Photograph 51
A birthday treat for Robert to see this much talked about play. Sadly he is a bit under the weather so we limited it to the evening and not the usual day out .
However the production was excellent with not a single weakness in the actors - the story was told collaboratively from each character's viewpoint.
As Kings was my old college I found it particularly interesting - the set being the old building labs where science was housed almost up to my starting my degree - I arrived to work in the brand new science block on the Strand (which they are now trying to "redevelop" - or "pull down" as we like to say), but the old labs on Surrey Street were being rebuilt to become the Macadam building while I was an undergraduate.
The subject matter of the play - which I had not quite understood previously (to my shame) - was x-ray crystallography which the college must have been well known for in the early 20th century - C P Snow based his novel The Search around the subject studied at Kings.
Posted by Christina at 10:20 PM. Category: Art and Culture
