Curtains and Doorways
Jan. 10th, 2020 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearYesterday, I was having lunch with a couple of friends at work:
Friend A: My husband and I are going to the theatre tonight.
Friend B: To see what?
Friend A: It's called Curtains - it's a comedy musical murder mystery.
Me and Friend B: That sounds awesome!
Friend B: There are still tickets left - we're coming too!
So, an impromptu theatre trip was born - and it was great! I do love a musical and this combined classic over-the-top musical numbers with witty writing and the kind of silly, self-aware humour that I love in shows. There was a show within the show, a sarcastic British director (amongst everyone else doing broad American accents), great dancing, an adorable bumbling detective, excitement, romance... This show had it all. Tremendous fun, an enthusiastic cast, and a great, unexpected night out.
On the way home, I finished reading Down Among The Sticks and Bones, by Seanan McGuire, which is a prequel to Every Heart A Doorway. It tells the story of two of the 'wayward children' we meet at the school in the first book, following them on their adventure to the Moors, prior to the time when the first book is set. So, I kind of already knew the story and what would happen. But it was so beautifully written and immersive and desperately sad, that it totally drew me in and I really enjoyed it. I'm still unsettled by the way children in these books seek out dangerous and abusive situations, and feel like they belong there, and I find the authorial attitude to those aspects of the books elusive. But I can't deny they're masterfully written, and I will definitely be reading the others in the series.
Friend A: My husband and I are going to the theatre tonight.
Friend B: To see what?
Friend A: It's called Curtains - it's a comedy musical murder mystery.
Me and Friend B: That sounds awesome!
Friend B: There are still tickets left - we're coming too!
So, an impromptu theatre trip was born - and it was great! I do love a musical and this combined classic over-the-top musical numbers with witty writing and the kind of silly, self-aware humour that I love in shows. There was a show within the show, a sarcastic British director (amongst everyone else doing broad American accents), great dancing, an adorable bumbling detective, excitement, romance... This show had it all. Tremendous fun, an enthusiastic cast, and a great, unexpected night out.
On the way home, I finished reading Down Among The Sticks and Bones, by Seanan McGuire, which is a prequel to Every Heart A Doorway. It tells the story of two of the 'wayward children' we meet at the school in the first book, following them on their adventure to the Moors, prior to the time when the first book is set. So, I kind of already knew the story and what would happen. But it was so beautifully written and immersive and desperately sad, that it totally drew me in and I really enjoyed it. I'm still unsettled by the way children in these books seek out dangerous and abusive situations, and feel like they belong there, and I find the authorial attitude to those aspects of the books elusive. But I can't deny they're masterfully written, and I will definitely be reading the others in the series.
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Date: 2020-01-10 01:15 pm (UTC)I’ve bounced off almost everything of Seanan McGuire’s that I’ve tried, but I really, desperately love the Wayward Children novellas.