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HumDrum AmDram - Little Shop of Horrors

I went to see HumDrum perform Little Shop of Horrors in the New Theatre Royal yesterday evening.

It was a very good performance. The interesting things are the comparisons with MTSoc’s version they did last year. It was a much simpler set this time, which actually worked quite well, the cast was also smaller so they managed to do the crowd-type scenes without completely filling the stage to bursting point like MTSoc did. It was also interesting to see the effect of an older cast. The plant they had wasn’t anywhere near as good and the one MTSoc hired. To conclude what appears to have turned into a list rather than any kind of prose…

Humdrum always try to do small plays or slightly better known plays in interesting ways. This time they opted to turn the Ronnettes into Bag-ladies. This actually worked very well as it gave them a bit more individuality and added humour. I can’t think of a reason not to use bag-ladies and it worked very well indeed.

Busy, busy, busy

Well, the card I designed has come in and I’m half way through testing it. I’ve still got a bit more work in the thermal chamber to do and I’ve got signal integrity testing to complete (once the probe arrives). All seems to be well. I’ve also finally got anti-static shoes so I don’t have to wear that irritating foot-strap now.

Cycling’s still going ok. I need to buy a pair of proper cycle shoes though because my trainers take waaaay to long to dry when it rains. I’m seriously considering buying SPD cleats too for the shoes although I’ve only just got used to the toe clips and it’s guarenteed that the first time you pull up to traffic lights with SPDs you’ll slowly fall sideways when you can’t release your foot from the pedal - quite comic really. One of the other cyclists at work slipstreams busses in order to cycle faster. He’s so scared the bus it going to stop he doesn’t even look down at his speedo. I’m convinced one day I’ll see a bus with a big human shaped dent in it a-la Tom and Jerry (or any other cartoon come to think of it)

Other thing’s I’ve bought are: a dvd-writer (my DVD drive broke and since I have movies and Operating Systems solely on DVDs this became irritating after a while). a Drill (cordless, natch). I only needed to drill two holes (we’ve got a towel rail in the airing cupboard now) but I’m sure it will come in useful for Tour.

Apart from that I’m not sure a lot has happened. See many of you soon.