Lynne's Theatre Notes

I refuse to call it Public Transport because it isn't . Why do bus drivers drive as if they trying to kill us ? so stop start jerkily !!.And you get two types -those that think they are driving the Batmobile in the grand prix ( or that they are Steve MacGarrett from Hawaii 5O in an emergency ) and those that drive so slowly and sit and read the timetable at the  bus stop. Why do they park at odd angles 30 m from the curb and don't put the bus down so we can alight properly ? why are buses either a fridge or a sauna ? other annoyances - why do people press the button when it we are arriving at the last stop ( eg the Zoo wharf , Chatswood station) .Why do buses have a destination listed yet it isn't ( eg the Art Gallery of NSW where the  stop is actually at the Botannical Gardens , and the bus drivers do not top at the zebra crossing opposite the gallery so we can run across but have to hike back) or the QVB or Circular Quay when the stop is really a stop  distance wi...

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RIPPER MURDERS GENESIAN THEATRE APRIL- JUNE 2019 The Genesian Theatre has been transformed into the eerie ,   foggy lanes of late 19 th century Whitechapel in London .The foyer and auditorium are plastered with the screaming headlines of   the newspapers of the day regarding the Jack the Ripper murders . ( Theories still abound to day as to who the Ripper actually was) . The play blends fact fiction and fantasy -t he grisly serial killings of prostitutes and vulnerable women in Victorian Whitechapel, dubbed by the popular press the work of 'Jack the Ripper' horrify London and the world . In Brian Clemen’s play, London is tense and edgy- and the great detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson become entangled in one of the darkest plots ever to shake the foundations of England.There are Freemasons, conspiracies and plots at the highest level of the Establishment . Royalty,the artist Walter Sickert and one of the leading surgeons of the d...