John Baker’s Blog

This production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass menagerie was well worth the four-hour train journey to London and back.
I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes failed them, or they had failed [...]

‘There’s no such thing as time,’ Geordie said. ‘Time’s a function of consciousness. If there was no consciousness there’d be no time.’
‘How about timing?’ Sam said.
‘That’s different.’
‘How?’
‘Because timing exists,’ Geordie said. ‘We could make music and dance before we knew we were doing it.’
They were in Sam’s office overlooking St. Helen’s [...]