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Saturday September 21, 2019
Sonning - Towards Zero
Another delightfully light-hearted retro experience at The Mill - not to mention good acting, good food, and good company. The book is from 1944 but Christie adapted it into a play in 1956; the plot is nicely worked and luckily the most challenging scenes on the windswept headland take place firmly off-stage. (In truth as with many of her plots, almost impossible to imagine anyone carrying it out in real life). One of the reviews said the play "almost had a feel of a television production in front of a live studio audience" which is the case as the theatre is small and intimate so that the actors do not (if they are wise) project voice and actions in the way they would for a normal stage production.
We went with a group of friends and colleagues who by popular consent chose a matinee performance. Traffic is so unpredictable that we planned it so we arrived mid-morning and enjoyed a leisurely amble by the Thames.
Along the way there was a very noticeable pretty plant that we did not recognise - it had rather large flowers for a "wild" flower. Rob later identified it as Indian Balsam, Impatiens Glandulifera - also known as Himalayan Balsam or Policeman's Helmet "an aggressive coloniser of river and stream banks".
Finally, on returning to the Mill, we watched a duck involved in spat with a decoy... (you musn't laugh).
Posted by Christina at 6:06 PM. Category: Art and Culture
