Wilde Theatre - by Neil Titley
Performance and News
BIRMINGHAM 2001 April: Tuesday As we drove south out of Chattanooga next morning, Ann said: “You’d best turn your watch back one hour – we’re moving from Eastern Time to Central.” We had crossed over the border into Alabama and […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. 2001 April: Saturday During the short haul flight over the Appalachian Mountains, I concentrated my thoughts towards this last leg of the US trip. Wilde’s own tour of the South had started in my current destination of the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. 2001 April: Tuesday At 3pm, Delmar dropped me off at the Hampton Inn on the southern outskirts of Charlotte. It was a long way from the luxury of the Hilton on Third – this was downmarket with a […]
TRANSIT THROUGH CHARLOTTE NC 2001 April: Saturday One of the satisfactions of the tour so far had been that, with hospitality guaranteed as part of the ESU deal, the finances were relatively healthy. I was almost making money. This unusually […]
RICHMOND, Va. 2001 April: Wednesday Next morning, I left Charleston and flew on to Charlotte NC, before boarding another flight to Richmond in Virginia. Up until this point, the American shows had been relatively leisurely, each one defined by […]
2001 April: Tuesday Barbara approached me during breakfast and handed me a book. “That’s the Bible in Gullah.” “Gullah?” It turned out that the Gullah were the descendants of the slave populations of the sea islands off the coast of […]
EASTERN DIXIELAND – April 2001 Prior to the main tour of the USA, I had decided to concentrate my efforts on the South. Over a couple of months I managed to coordinate dates and travel with ten different towns and […]
[From contemporary African diaries] 1995 August: Friday 5pm: Hailu and I left the National Theatre and struggled back through the beggars to the taxi rank – not even his police status could keep this lot off. Drove back out of […]
[From contemporary African diaries] 1995 August: Thursday 6pm: Chatting with Hailu, I discovered a major problem. I was going to have real trouble over the currency. I couldn’t take birr out of the country – it was regarded as […]
[From contemporary African diaries] 1995 August: Wednesday 6 20pm: Hailu arrived. I set out the props and gave one last boom of speech in the restaurant to get the sound level right. It was a 9pm start but the audience […]