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Rain All the Way at Hay

The Hay Festival is a canvas village. With the rain pelting down all day today (it never paused for a second) the walkways were all sodden, the clientele even wetter.
But I’m already ahead of myself. Last night we went to bed around 1.00 am, the same time as the wedding guests were leaving. We thought [...]



Broken Glass is a brave, bighearted attempt by one of the pathfinders of postwar drama to look at the tangle of evasions and hostilities by which the soul contrives to hide its emptiness from itself.
John Lahr.

Kristallnacht -1938 - the Nazis in Berlin smash the windows and destroy the contents of Jewish shops and synagogues. Old [...]






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