Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 May 2016

Somnambulism

The stage of Norwich's Theatre Royal ahead of a performance of 'The Blue Notebooks' and the 90-minute edit of 'Sleep,' by the Max Richter Ensemble. As with, seemingly, most of the audience, I did nod off at points, lulled into trippy, strange, dreamy fragments of subconsciousness.

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Zen-Like Emptiness: The Great Yarmouth Empire

The Grade II* listed Empire Theatre, on Great Yarmouth seafront. Cinema, bingo hall, and, most recently, a nightclub called Zen, this once grand building was constructed in 1908, designed by an architect by the name of A.S. Hewitt. Still fairly dramatic, the nightclub closed in late 2008. The numerous pigeons nesting in the facade seemed fairly happy about the building's fall from grace, at least.