I can imagine it would be a fun show to act in! Flash Bang Wallop has been moved in the new production, meaning that that "coming to an end halfway through" feeling is avoided.Rob Houghton wrote:I agree about the structure of Half A Sixpence. I was in it way back in 2002 and I've always felt the plot meanders a little, especially after the two main characters get married. Flash Bang Wallop is a great number...but it almost feels like the show is over once that number is done with! The rest seems an anti-climax in some ways. I enjoyed being in it as a show though - our dancing was very energetic!
That's interesting, Chrissie. I think Cookham Dean, where he lived, was also an inspiration.Chrissie777 wrote:I wanted to add something to "The Wind in the Willows".
In a Cornwall travel guide I once read that Kenneth Grahame was friends with Cornish author Sir Arthur Quiller Couch from Fowey (whose daughter Foy was good friends with Daphne DuMaurier).
And on one of his visits Quiller Couch took Grahame to Lerryn Creek (this is a side "arm"/natural extension of the Fowey River which is actually no river at all, but an inlet with high tide and low tide).
They crossed the old stone bridge and walked along Lerryn Creek into the woods.
Supposedly these woods inspired Grahame to write "The Wind in the Willows".
Sounds like a magical moment, if rather creepy and solitary. I was once in a smooth, grassy clearing in a wood early in the morning. Everything was still and softly lit, drenched with dew and slightly misty, and there was a small, dark pool nearby. It somehow seemed quite unreal and I felt that I'd stepped into the Wood Between the Worlds from C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew.Chrissie777 wrote:In 1995 I crossed Lerryn Creek from the parking via stepping stones which are next to that stone bridge and walked through the woods all the way to St. Willow church and back.
Once I entered the woods, I noticed that it was low tide and the trees were hanging over the empty creek...it felt like an end time vision (don't know how to describe it in proper English words ).
Other than me there was nobody walking in the woods and the mood was kind of desolate/deserted, but I found it fascinating and actually enjoyed it.