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I started writing my first blog ten years ago. I didn't really know what I was doing or expect anyone to read it, but my mum had just died of cancer, and I found writing helped me begin to deal with this devastating loss. As the blog was called "CrouchEnding" after the London suburb we lived in, it seemed necessary to end it when we moved to York a few years later. After we had our daughter, I was then challenged to write a new blog as part of 40 (small) personal challenges I undertook in the year I turned 40. And the blogging was the challenge I enjoyed the most. So when the 40 challenges were completed and my young daughter finally got her 15 hours of nursery funding, I looked for something else to write about. Telly and Travels is it. Something I do too much of combined with something I would like to do more of.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

The Big Brecht Fest

Our first trip to the Young Vic since it reopened after its rebuild and it did not disappoint - a double bill of early and virtually unknown Brecht plays. Rory Bremner's hilarious translation of bourgeois farce A Respectable Wedding was brilliantly played out by a stellar cast confined to a minuscule self-collapsing set, and The Jewish Wife, showing a woman packing her belongings to escape from Berlin in a menacing political climate in the 1930s, was so subtly tragic that it was simultaneously utterly compelling and almost unbearable. This was not the Brecht that I studied for German A-Level and it was so, so much the better for it.

REBECCA

posted by Rebecca Dodgson | 3:39 pm

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