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Elanor
@gingerelanor.bsky.social
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Just me. Theatre, plants, grumbling about stuff. 🌈
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah Joe definitely clocked that imo.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 15h
I don't normally like Alan Carr or Kate Garroway, but they've been fun so far.
David Olusoga is someone I've really liked for a long time.
And I've been taken by surprise by how beautiful Charlotte Church is.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 15h
Oh. I've never heard of Cat Burns before, but.. I like her.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 2d
Argh. Why is it all shit? Booo.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
I don't even remember him being in it, but do remember him in DBS, although didn't notice much beyond how wonderful Helen McCrory was in it.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
Very Ibsen, lol! Yes exactly that.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
Ohhh yes Hayley Atwell, that's right. Never seen Strike though beyond half of episode 1.

Oh! Was it Rosmersholm?
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
It had Giles Terera in it i think? Lots of flowers in the flood. Drowning offstage... nothing else stuck in my mind.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
It also covered OCD, alcoholism, the Troubles, baby death and parental abuse, so not exactly a barrel of laughs for a 65 minute play.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
It got great reviews and some standing ovations in my audience, but I hated it so much
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
It was called Consumed. I looked again at the website and to be fair it did warn about suicide, trauma and eating disorders, but I hadn't clicked on the warning.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
Off to see another play tonight. This one had a warning for rape, death, animal slaughter and racial slurs, so.... I'm not anticipating a huge improvement on my mood.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
I saw a play i absolutely HATED this afternoon. It was about generational trauma (but totally didn't say that in the advertising, or I wouldn't have gone) and was just 4 women all being vile to each other. And then playing with soil.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
I saw a good flood once in an Ibsen somewhere in the west end. I remember nothing at all about the play except the flood...
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
Today's mud was just baffling.
I quite like rain in plays though. I liked the Mark Strong View from the bridge one.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
There was a very good mud bit at the end of the... (whatever company it was, something northern) Richard iii a few years ago. Battle of bosworth with Richard alone on stage with multiple mirrors, and a bucket of mud. That one was pretty magical.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
The cast were good, they worked hard, but i did not enjoy it.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
They had an hour of shouting and funny-because-the-old-lady-is-swearing, and throwing roast potatoes at the anorexic character, then they whipped back the rug to reveal soil and started being deep and meaningful with it.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
It ended 3 hours ago and I'm still really grumpy about it. Everyone was horrible.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
:( I struggle to cry at real life, so I like a cry at films and music instead.

(Randomly today at Lyse Doucet on radio 3 talking about Syria and piano music...)
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
I care!
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
No solutions sadly, but messy crying might help?
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 4d
I saw a play i absolutely HATED this afternoon. It was about generational trauma (but totally didn't say that in the advertising, or I wouldn't have gone) and was just 4 women all being vile to each other. And then playing with soil.
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 7d
I'm watching Before Sunrise for the first time in years, and its still so wonderful. I've seen it so many times. The chemistry is so perfect. They look soooo young now though!
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 7d
Yes yes, but have you been to Shetland?
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Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social · 8d
Fuck it, I'm taking myself on a hot date on Saturday, two plays and a meal out.
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