Wilde Theatre - by Neil Titley
Performance and News
[From contemporary African diaries] 1995 August: Tuesday Woke at 9am feeling a bit shattered. Tried unsuccessfully to figure out how the shower worked. The interest of travelling is that every action becomes an adventure – even buying a loaf of […]
[From contemporary African diaries] 1995 August: Monday 2pm: Woke up to the sound of a very heavy rainstorm outside. Only two hours sleep but felt better. The internal phone rang – it was the hotel manager welcoming me and […]
ETHIOPIA The tour of Africa was perhaps the most absurd venture that I ever undertook on behalf of Oscar Wilde Enterprises. It stemmed, like many an idea, from a conversation over a bottle of wine. Sitting in a garden on […]
2001 April: Friday Beryl gave a worried glance out of the window. “If it snows any harder it’s going to be difficult for the audience to get here – and we’ve got to get off the mountain ourselves tomorrow to […]
2001 April Wednesday In the afternoon, we drove up into the High Sierras. The Sierra Nevada contains 500 distinct peaks all over 12,000 ft – a truly impressive range. The snow lay piled high on each side of the road […]
CALIFORNIA – April 2001 Sierra City 2001 April: Tuesday Flying from London to California, although in this case involving 25 hours of continuous travelling, had the compensation of offering an aerial view of the USA second to none. As the […]
SHIMLA 2006 December: Friday In the morning I drew back the bedroom curtains. The Shimla valley lay stretched beneath. Parakeets and large black ravens wheeled among the tops of the pine trees at eye level; monkeys squatted and played on […]
2006 November: Sunday Old Delhi was the last leg of the tourist Golden Triangle. After the Amber Palace of Jaipur and the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort of Delhi had its work cut out to impress. However, as both the […]
Having completed the shows in Delhi, the party has gone travelling on the tourist trails of India: 2006 November: Friday Moving eastwards we left the hills of Jaipur behind and travelled across the flat country towards Agra. Along the roadside […]
2006 November: Sunday Next morning I sat in the front garden of Shalendra and Vinod’s home in Gurgaon. Although we still had Malcolm’s talk on GB Shaw and Ann’s talk on Pontius Pilate and Shelley to come over the next […]