Roll Up! Roll Up!

This week is the Barnum production and I am dashing from work to the theatre each evening. I always guessed this would be a challenging production because of all the additional skills we need for the circus element of the show, but people are standing up well to it. The audience seems to be enjoying it too and joining in the ‘we are at a circus’ atmosphere, particularly the finale. As part of that it has been good to be able to get out amongst the audience pre-show and develop that atmosphere by doing some juggling, etc. Of course if you have not been yet then get yourself along, there are still some seats for you slow coaches. To get some idea what to expect you can have a browse through Carl’s set of photos on Flickr to get some idea of what the show looks like.

On that subject of photos it was perplexing to see that a local shopping centre has banned people from taking photos inside the shopping centre (their reason being that it was part of anti-terrorist security measures). Perplexing because they don’t seem to mind if you draw sketches inside the centre, as evidenced by this one I made of a set of escalators. I accept the sketch might be so bad as to lack any usefulness to a terror group, but imagine what damage a pencil could do if it got into the hands of a more adroit person. Maybe the ’sketch banning’ might be part of a later anti-terrorist course that the centre managers have yet to go on, but for the moment they don’t seem to object.