Theare Complicite - A Disappearing Number

We went to see this at the Barbican recently. I had never seen Theatre Complicite before but have always wanted to. This show won loads of awards last year and I was also interested because Nitin Sawhney wrote the original music.

It is basically the story of a man who meets a woman who he marries. This is it in a nutshell. However its a lot more interesting and complicated than that. The woman is a mathematician and in the background of this story is the story of two emminant mathematicians from the past: GH Hardy and Sirinivasa Ramanujan and their work at Cambridge University around the time of the First World War. Ramanujan had written to Hardy who in turn invited him to come from India to work with him.

The play goes backwards and forwards in time and tells their stories and the story of the man and his wife which is inter-weaved when she travels to India to see where Ramanujan lived and worked.

It does get a bit complicated in parts but I did lean something about maths. Here goes:

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ...∞ (ie to infinity) = minus 1/12th.

Apparently.

Spy Monkey - 'Cooped'

Didn't tell you about this either. After I saw them in Miss Behave's Variety Nighty at the Roundhouse I thought SpyMonkey's new show 'Cooped' would be good. But I was slightly disappointed.

It was billed as Mills & Boon rewritten by Monty Python. (I hate Monty Python to be honest). Anyway so we went trip-trip-trip billygoats gruff to see Cooped at the Leicester Square Theatre. This clip actually makes it seem less good than it was. It is certainly very piss taking and surreal. But they all insisted in taking their clothes off again!

I overheard this in the loo after the show:

Girl One: "Really horrible willies"

Girl Two: "Oh yeah!"

It was an enjoyable night - I do like this theatre - and parts of the show were very funny. But it wasn't as good as the little snippet they did at Miss Behave's show accompanied by the tune 'Di Gue Ding Ding' Naturally I do have this piece of music at home and dance around to it. Often.

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The Kransky Sisters - Three Bags Full

I never got round to telling you what they were like.  Sock Monkey liked them v. much. 

A new sister has joined them.  According to their website:

"Due to the mysterious disappearance of tuba playing Arva Kransky, who was last seen exchanging sheet music with a member of the Hornbell Military Marching Band, the Kransky Sisters have enlisted the assistance of their rarely visited, reclusive sister, Dawn Kransky, who has taken leave of her job as a trolley librarian as the Esk Hospital to be with her sisters.

"Both Dawn and Arva Kransky studied the Tuba at Tafe Toowoomba.  On her return Dawn moved into a neighbour's laundry after discovering that her three sisters had commandeered the house.  Dawn has rarely performed before an audience aside from the early years when her sisters would play together as children at the Esk fairs while their mother sold among other things tasty fudge."

I would have liked to have seen them perform 'Overload' live, even if they don't know the ending of the song and it just stops abruptly.  Dawn tripped of the cable and unplugged the wireless so they never heard the end of the song. Even though they didn't play it they were most amusing anyway and I would definitely see them again. And their tambourine playing is second to none!  I got their autographs and Andrew partook of one of their tea towels from their tea towel signing session after the show.

Here they are singing Pretty Woman   

And Another Thing About Crystal Palace

Morning.

I was out with two of my nice friends last night. They usually read Sock Monkey. C said that my post about Crystal Palace sounded like I had been taking crack. So I will add a few things about the area that I forgot to mention:

I often see Bambi and Thumper skipping up Anerley Hill. There's a Unicorn at the bottom of my garden. The Bluebirds on my shoulder can sometimes be a problem, though.

I Love Crystal Palace!

Sock Monkey moved to Crystal Palace just over 2 years ago and Sock Monkey LOVES it here!

When I went to Tesco yesterday the girl who always ends up serving me saw me in the aisle and said, "Hello Madam. How are you today?"

Every time I walk past the chip shop the man waves at me gives a big grin, waves and shouts, "Hi! How are you?"

I bought my washing machine from 'Mike's Cookers' and ever since when I walk past they also shout 'Hi. How are you!"

The lady at the chemist is lovely. she is always hoovering the place when I go in. Her daughter works there, too. She is a right laugh.

The local pizza takeaway had to closed for ages and whilst they were doing it up I always asked the owner how he was doing. Now that they have opened he always says hello when I walk past. They do the BEST pizzas ever!

I just went to the local shop to get bin bags, Brillo pads & cigarettes. The man said "That's Eight Pounds Eighty-Three. Give me Eight Pounds". One time I forgot my purse and the nice man said, "Just pay me the next time you are in."

I feel like I sorta know everyone round here and feel so at home.

People who don't live in London seem to think it is a really unfriendly, anonymous place but in reality its just a whole lot of little places all sellotaped together and when you live in one area for any length of time you get to know all the locals.

I like living here and am so glad I decided to buy my flat in this area. And I do like my neighbours (well except for 'The Undesirables' across the hall!).

Happy Halloween

So its 31 October.

I told my friend that I was going to get myself a great big bucket of dead mice and if any children came round I'd give them a trick.   *snigger*   I hate kids.

She said I should dip them in chocolate and then it would be both a trick and a treat.

So a bit like a Kinder Surprise.  Without the toy.  

Happy Halloween!

Separated at Birth

That twerp from AC/DC.......aaaand Little Jimmy Krankie

Fandabidozi!!