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About the Book

Old age is much more fun than I expected. It would be easy to focus on such downsides as stiffening sinews and dodgy memory. Or the pills popped to regulate blood pressure and the reliance upon chiropody. (I have heard no better definition of advancing years than bending down to tie your shoelaces and wondering 'Is there anything else I should be doing while I'm down here'.) Perhaps the greatest joy of geriatrica is that there are few deadlines. If I don't get around to doing it today, there's always tomorrow. And if there is no tomorrow? Whatever the future, I hope to be granted a few more healthy years. There is still so much to do. Much more than I can ever hope to see, hear or afford. And I remain curious about the future. I would really like to know what happens next. I regret that I have never succeeded in keeping a proper diary beyond the very first few days in January. However, with 2004-2005 the year in which I completed 50 years in the theatre, it was now or never. So, I wrote down the year as it happened. Inevitably, I am rather uncertain about sharing it. Who could possibly be interested in the travels and thoughts of a lighting designer enjoying his slow fade? On the other hand, there seemed to be a favourable response to similar material in the columns that Tabman and Walter Plinge contributed to "Tabs and Cue". Inevitably this is a feel-good book. Inevitable, because at age 70, I resolved that henceforth, I would allow myself a lifestyle based on the pursuit of hedonism. No more reading, listening or viewing because I ought to - only because I wanted to. So, this journal records experiences that were chosen to give me pleasure.

Table of Contents:
ON GROWING OLD MAY 2004: Kalami; Corfu Town; Agni; Paleokastritsa; Evening Agni; Kefalonia; Koloura JUNE: Cesky Krumlov; Baroque Theatre; Candles; Halle; Bad Lauchstadt; Handel Supper; Halle Musik; Another Handelian Day; More Festival Opera; The Ides of June; ABTT; To Japan; Yokohama; World Lighting Fair; A Lazy Day; Tokyo; More Tokyo; Homeward Bound JULY: Hannover; Osnabruck; Wolfenbuttel; Warsaw; 18th Century Restored; Ides of July; Mozart; Edinburgh; RADA; Iraq; Osiris AUGUST: Somerleyton; Poetic Tensions; Jimi Handel meets G. F. Hendrix; Oulton Broad; Orthoptics; Edinburgh Festival; Painters; Prestonpans; Close Archaeology; Back to School; Definitive Bruckner; Musselburgh; Ballet Matinee; Saucing the Haggis; Catalan Drips; Late Night Punting; Letter in the East Anglian Daily Times SEPTEMBER: Bury St Edmunds; Diplomatic Dining; In the Train; PLASA; Decibels; Stage Beauty; Delivering Yesterday's Lights; A Light Apology; OCTOBER: De-Lovely; Lovely Concert - Pity About the Hall; Chewing; To Turkey; Marmaris; Icmeler; Holiday Pleasures; Holiday Reads; Hierapolis; Ephesus; Home; Fairies; Drilling Outsourced; Proofs; NOVEMBER: Period Dressing; Simple Beliefs; Glyndebourne at Norwich; Flutes remembered; The Nation served; Remembrance; Opera Comique Parisienne; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Early Mozart; Amsterdam Theater Museum; Stadsschouwburg; Alliance Nouveau; Liaisons Danced; Serving the Nation; Shared Identity; The Times DECEMBER: Gewandhaus Messias; Leipzig Music; Leipzig Oper; Nikolaikirche; Stasi Museum; Thomaskirche; Chemnitz; Fifty Years On; RADA & Crypt; First Opening; Belshazzar; Lighting Dinner; McPanto; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; Boxing Soup; Media; Tsunami; Hogmanay JANUARY 2005: New Year's Day; January Second; Phantom Hokum; Pompeii Recreated; Mont Royal; Light and Dance; Dancing in the Light; Fast Track Architecture; Musical Pleasures; Talking and Eating; Feelgood Homeward FEBRUARY: Yesterday's Lights; Piano Concerti; And on Thursday's I Read The Stage; Merchant Ivory; Flybe Freebie; Yesterday's man; Mozart Triumphant; Lichtgestaltung; Die Unzauberflote; Typos; Sesimbra; Setubal & Evora; Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos; Dionisio, Re di Portogallo MARCH: To Hong Kong; Chep Lap Kok; Deja vu; Ageing China Hand; HKTTS; Still the night? Requiem; West Kowloon Cultural District; Ritual Dining; Dancing the Opera; Ezio; Edinburgh; It's Behind You! RSAMD; Osbert Recalled; Drama Senza Giocoso APRIL: Open Borders; Trousers; More Trousers; Hummel; Opera; Theatre - A Passion, a Body, a Voice; Alcina; Two Years to Gold; Museo Teatrale Alla Scala; Rinaldo; Birthday; Serenissima; Goldoni; Fenice III; Pia de Tolomei; da Vinci Machines MAY: Theatre Museum; Handel House; Handel Church; VE-day 60 Years On; Lunch Music; Multi-Channel Motet; Election; Democracy? Escape; Kalami Again; McHaggis; Oracle; Powerless; Butrint; Ides anniversary INDEX


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781904031352
  • Publisher: Cambridge Media Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Entertainment Technology Press Ltd
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Sub Title: A Year in Retirement
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1904031358
  • Publisher Date: 10 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 500 gr


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