A fun part of the production has been assembling props - a 40s Woodbine astray, an old-fashioned bottle of scotch, a cigarette case and a whiff of 40s in the costume of the characters. And the cast - Anna Rogers, Matt Griffin and Ruari Johnson - have been extraordinarily successful at bringing Musset's characters to life in a faux-Fitzrovian setting.
Read more The Crouch End Festival and Alfred de Musset
Where Kho went wrong Khoai goes right - keep it simple on service and dish up the good stuff.
Read more Resto 17 Khoai Café, Crouch End
With a chef like this Koh deserves to be a success whatever shenanigans the front of house team were getting up to.
Read more Resto 16 Koh Thai, Southsea
I'd go back to Matthew's Kitchen - for Crouch End on a Friday evening it was very peaceful with a perfect atmosphere for a bright summer's evening.
Read more Resto 15 Matthew’s Kitchen, Crouch End
Part of the fun of staging a period piece is assembling (and drinking) the props! A short post on my new theatre production for the Crouch End Festival.
Read more Translating Musset
A brief post rounding up all of the shows being put on by the superabundantly talented Crouch End Players for the Crouch End Festival.
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Do not under any circumstance play jazz lite over your sound system. Combined with the enervating combined effect of high amounts of caffeine and bad service this could result in a Falling Down style situation. You don't want that. And more to the point nor do your other customers.
Read more Resto 14 N4 coffee fruit, Stroud Green
Now that A Midsummer Night's Dream has finished it's time to flag up my own next production with the Crouch End Players as part of the Crouch End Festival. As part of an evening of new writing I'm directing a new translation of the French classic, A Door (Should Be Either Open Or Shut).
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A gaggle of friendly fellers behind this counter make this the perfect place for authentic Greek cooking in a chilled atmosphere. One of the best so far this year.
Read more Resto 13 The Life Goddess Store Street
I’d meant to write a post about seeing Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream back in April but never quite got round to it. So now I can use it as an intro to a forthcoming production of Shakespeare’s classic with which I’m involved on the production side of things. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted…
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