Wilde Theatre - by Neil Titley
Performance and News
BOSTON, Mass – 1997 It was simply the fall of the dice that while the Oscar tours took me to some odd spots, I somehow missed the countries that, in language, culture, and ease of travel, should have been the […]
LAKE MAGGIORE, ITALY – February 2004 The invitation to perform in Lombardy came entirely by surprise. I received an e-mail explaining that as Ireland had taken over the Presidency of the European Union for six months, the Irish government was […]
HAMBURG, GERMANY – June 2002 Old ex-London friends were the backbone of the trip to Germany. Maggie was a teacher who had decided that educating the youth of Germany was a lot less stressful than educating the youth of inner […]
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: Saturday Next morning, I descended to ground level for a walk around the bay, half out of curiosity and half because I needed to run through the Wilde show lines. Although I trusted my memory generally, I still […]
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, […]
The climax to the first visit to North Carolina and a slight mishap. 2001 March: Tuesday That evening, my hostess Elizabeth took me to another drinks party at a nearby retirement complex. These particular homes worked on a special deal. […]