Sometimes we come across something by pure chance and we know immediately it is going to be relevant and important for the rest of our lives. When I was in my college years it was music-wise Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled debut album, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and Björk’s Medulla. Film-wise it must have been Kill … Continue reading A Cave of Wonders in the British Museum in London
The Harry Potter exhibition in the British Library is something I looked forward to see months before it opened – but then missed getting tickets for a visit at a reasonable time. So when Pottermore’s Over 18 evening event was announced I got two tickets straight away. I am taking my obviously pregnant friend with … Continue reading Pottering around in the British Library in Kings Cross, London
After having joined giving standing ovations to Jakop Ahlbom’s mind-blowing Horror piece at the London International Mime Festival (LIMF) two years ago not only is he back in 2018 with Lebensraum but me as well in the audience, again in the Peacock Theatre in Holborn, London. Horror was so different from anything I had seen … Continue reading More Lebensraum in Holborn, London
I am in Hamburg for a very short weekend to see family and friends and am generously treated to a trip to the Imperial Theater. I am excited as I have planned to come here for a long time after several recommendations but never got around to do so. The Imperial Theater’s focus is on … Continue reading Meeting Sherlock Holmes in Hamburg, Germany
I am in Zürich in Switzerland on my own and decide to go out. The flyer for the Ballet Revolucion catches my eye in the hotel lobby but the cheapest tickets are already 68 Swiss Francs and the soundtrack is with the likes of Justin Bieber and Enrique Iglesias a bit too charts-orientated for me. … Continue reading Swiss Hundeherz in Zürich, Switzerland
