Wilde Theatre - by Neil Titley
Performance and News
1996 January: Thursday I set the alarm clock especially carefully prior to the afternoon sleep. I really needed a good performance tonight. After all, despite the review, the show last Sunday night had been mediocre, and I didn’t even want […]
1996 January: Wednesday Having decided to travel further afield, I checked out various destinations. I would have liked to go to Canton in the Peoples’ Republic, but it was time-consuming and expensive. In common with most Chinese cities, the name […]
1996 January: Tuesday With a couple of days to spare before the next show, I decided to chill out as much as possible. It seemed that the nearest point of interest was a place called Stanley Market on the most […]
1996 January: Monday What happened next, I shall never really know. During four decades of performance, I never came anywhere near so disastrous a sequence of events as occurred over the next 24 hours. In retrospect, it seems that a […]
1996 January: Friday It was the end of a 12-hour non-stop flight from London. The plane banked steeply to the left, then for two minutes dived down through a blanket of swirling mist. When we broke through the cloud cover, […]