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dormouse1953) wrote2012-10-31 11:27 pm
dormouse1953) wrote2012-10-31 11:27 pm
The Hampstead Theatre is jinxed
A few months ago I posted about a trip to the Hampstead Theatre where, just after my train left Woking station, there was an announcement that there had been a lightning strike up in London which was causing signalling problems. I got to Waterloo about the time the performance was due to be starting.
Well, modern German opera doesn't get that big an audience so I was able to book for a later performance. I set off early for that, which was just as well as the train ground to a halt at Clapham Junction and I had enough time to walk into central London and still get to the theatre on time.
One result of visiting this theatre is they now e-mail me with details of forthcoming productions and one that caught my eye was a play called 55 Days by Howard Brenton, about the Civil War with Mark Gatiss as Charles I. I decided to go to a matinee performance followed by a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in the evening.
I set out this lunchtime and at one point on the journey looked up from my book to see we had stopped at Surbiton, which is not a normal stop on that service. Then the guard made an announcement that he had been informed that there was a fatality at Wimbledon which was causing delays. We got to New Malden and stopped again, and the guard said we could be there for some time.
Well, luckily he was wrong and after a few minutes the train moved again. We had been diverted onto the slow line but we did get to Waterloo with still plenty of time for me to get the tube up to Hampstead. And when we went through Wimbledon, there were still plenty of emergency services people on one of the platforms.
Well, modern German opera doesn't get that big an audience so I was able to book for a later performance. I set off early for that, which was just as well as the train ground to a halt at Clapham Junction and I had enough time to walk into central London and still get to the theatre on time.
One result of visiting this theatre is they now e-mail me with details of forthcoming productions and one that caught my eye was a play called 55 Days by Howard Brenton, about the Civil War with Mark Gatiss as Charles I. I decided to go to a matinee performance followed by a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in the evening.
I set out this lunchtime and at one point on the journey looked up from my book to see we had stopped at Surbiton, which is not a normal stop on that service. Then the guard made an announcement that he had been informed that there was a fatality at Wimbledon which was causing delays. We got to New Malden and stopped again, and the guard said we could be there for some time.
Well, luckily he was wrong and after a few minutes the train moved again. We had been diverted onto the slow line but we did get to Waterloo with still plenty of time for me to get the tube up to Hampstead. And when we went through Wimbledon, there were still plenty of emergency services people on one of the platforms.