AUGUST: Osage County @ NT — Page 3

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I hope those 'ladies who lunch' remove their hats prior to curtain up!
Does anyone still wear a hat?

Today we have announcements in theatres about the switching off of mobile phones etc but up until the mid 80s they were made to remind ladies to remove their hats!
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Updated On: 1/7/09 at 01:54 PM

I have many many programs with that request on the centre page, I'll see if I can dig one out.

"for the younger crowd i.e. 45-65 this would be printed to resemble a copy of The Guardian"

And what will it be printed to resemble for those of us under 45? Metro? Attitude? The Big Issue? Or can we download it onto our i-pod?

In Stockpot on Old Compton St they have only just stopped using one of those purple ink printers for the menus!

Flaky net causes flaky double post.

Updated On: 1/7/09 at 02:34 PM

Never been to either. If I have no money, I eat what I can afford. If I have a little money, I eat at the Tokyo Diner. If I have plenty of money, I eat at one of the Abenos. Delicious Japanese food is delicious!

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I'm afraid when it comes to Stockpot and West End Kitchen I'm strictly in the 'a plague a' both your houses' camp.

It may be cheap but it's also an English celebration of the culinary mediocre. You might as well go to Tesco get a ready meal and then pay one of them a corkage fee to reheat it in their microwave.

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Updated On: 1/7/09 at 03:09 PM

Those under 45 will have to take the quiz on Facebook but only as a Facebook app on iPhone (the app will probably be called iSmug).


Though as Weez says generally those over 16 and under 45 who go to the National post here and were covered as exempt back on Page One.

The annoying smug pretentious crowd under 30 tend to go to the Royal Court and they don't need a quiz, just a good smack and to be forced to go watch Hairspray.

I know I should really take the very admirable approach of Eastwickian, and as someone who has generally been to the theatre by themselves since my teens I've always been of the opinion that it doesn't matter what you wear and it doesn't matter who you sit with or if you go with anyone as once the lights go down and the point of the evening begins that's all irrelevant - it's just that somehow the smug stoopids always manage to annoy me in the 30 seconds before the shows starts, the 15 mins at half-time and then particularly on the way out!

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"The annoying smug pretentious crowd under 30 tend to go to the Royal Court and they don't need a quiz, just a good smack and to be forced to go watch Hairspray."

Actually the Royal Court isn't hip or edgy enough for the pretentious under 30 crowd. They go to the Barbican Pit, 503, BAC, and wherever the devised group of choice are.

And believe it or not, I knew people getting theatre MA's who proudly boasted that they'd never seen a musical, and that there was no artistic merit in such base entertainments. Sadly it was their advisor who set our fall term crash course London theatregoing list of things to see so we conveniently ended up at a parade of devised works and utter ****e like the Gate's Car Cemetery and Rider Spoke but they couldn't arrange a discount for a group of 50 to see something from the commercial sector. The closest we got was War Horse and Masque of the Red Death (which thankfully sold out before anybody could book - I wear spectacles and would have been MISERABLE trying to see under those masks.)

"Food for Thought around the corner from the Donmar is my favourite West End cafe."

Despite being a veg, I wasn't particularly impressed when I ate there though it was years ago when I visited as a tourist. I keep meaning to give them another try.

There's Mildred's, which is on the expensive side (£16ish for a three course meal) but they also have a small cafe/bakery/coffee shop attached. The puddings are absolutely amazing. They're at 45 Lexington St. W1F.

I know there's supposed to be a few other places, but a lot of veg restaurants seem to think that people will pay a high premium in exchange for actually having menu selection, so I don't go very often.