Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label solo

Ajaxpost Plays Hotel Architect Giveaway

To celebrate the announcement of the release date for  Hotel Architect  I have TWO Steam keys for the game to giveaway! I will draw ONE winning entrant on the Gleam.io competition page and ONE entrant from the comments section of the announcement Lets Play video. Terms and Conditions General The Ajaxpost Plays Hotel Architect Giveaway ( the Giveaway ) is a lottery run exclusively by the Ajaxpost Plays YouTube Channel ( Ajaxpost Plays ) All the terms described here are in addition to the standard terms and conditions applied by Gleam.io and YouTube for all giveaways run on their platform. YouTube, Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, X, and any other platforms used to advertise or promote the Giveaway do not sponsor the Giveaway and are in no way responsible or liable for any aspect of the operation of the Giveaway There will up to TWO winners who shall receive ONE Steam key for Hotel Architect: An Entrant that wins a prize on one draw will not be ...

On This Day: 26th May

Back Before The Lockdown this was a day for the unexpected. in 2015 There are a few actors I adore, whose work is consistently impressive and there are, equally, a few that I just cannot take a liking too. In this latter case it's not necessarily that they are bad actors but often that I have never found any of their characters sympathetic or understandable. Unfortunately Gina McKee falls into that second category so I was a little torn when she was announced as the lead in Florian Zeller's The Mother at the Ustinov Studio in Bath. A year earlier I had seen a production of The Father (from the same author and creative team at the same venue) which was simply magnificent . So, trusting the team at the Ustinov I put my doubts aside and booked and ... boy, did she prove me wrong! Using a similar technique as used for The Father , of presenting the same scene but from slightly different perspectives we are constantly wrong-footed in trying to work out who's view we a...

On This Day: 1st May

Another day of separate lives in 2020 but this day Before The Lockdown is more than a little interesting! First some 'backstory'. 😀 In February of this year I saw a new version of an old classic, Nora: A Doll's House , but it's not the play that is of interest here. As we entered the theatre I said to my friend that we had definitely been here before - he was dubious, especially as I couldn't say when or to see what. But. I had a very clear recollection of being in the theatre cafe, drinking coffee and discussing their unusual selection of bread with the waiter! When I returned home I searched my digital records (from which these posts are derived) but could find no entry for the Young Vic. Until today! in 2009 I had seen a couple of solo shows some years earlier but I reckon this is the one that cemented my appreciation for this type of theatre. In You Can See The Hills with no set and mostly just sat on a chair, William Ash told the story of a young t...