Day 39 - A View from the Bridge

A working day today: up to Town for an Ofwat Board meeting. Met a friend on the train and chatted the whole way to Waterloo. Not sure the lady next to me was too impressed, but it was ages since we had seen each other and we had lots of catching up to do.  At least I wasn't on the phone...

The board meeting finished in the early afternoon which gave me time to visit The Wolseley for tea with the daughter of a school-friend of my mother's who was visiting London from San Francisco.  The Wolseley was absolutely packed: they really have carved out a great niche for themselves - for me, it's one of the Number One places for a working breakfast (but do book first!) and I was surprised to see how busy they were in the middle of the afternoon.

Just caught the train to get home in time to get to the Odeon in Esher for an NT screening of the Young Vic's staging of "A View From The Bridge", by Arthur Miller. 

Wow.... we hadn't seen the play before and were bowled away by the performances by all of the actors, as well as the minimalist staging and dramatic ending.  I shall be very surprised if Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox don't pick up a host of awards for this.

We thoroughly recommend the play: two hours of high quality, intense drama.  It was also the first time that we had been to one of these National Theatre screenings and I thought it was excellent (and a lot easier than schlepping up to London...).  As we left, we bumped into two other Burhill families, so we clearly weren't the only ones to have had the same idea!