Show Reviews: The 39 Steps

I saw this play a little while ago, and loved it!   It was so clever and funny.   It's based on the novel and Hitchcock film of the same title, about the ordinary man, who through a chance encounter, finds himself caught up in an espionage mystery.   What's so entertaining about this play is that's it's done with 4 actors, who play 130 roles between them!   The changes are very slick and well rehearsed and add to a lot of the comedy.   Without such a great cast, it would never have worked.   The sets are very simple, with the actors themselves making them convincing, for example everyone jiggling when they're sitting on benches to represent the train.   The Forth Bridge is just done with ladders and it looks great!   All in all, a very funny show, out on brilliantly, by great actors.  Well worth seeing.

Inchcolm Island

Firstly, I would like to announce a three week long blog hiatus due to holidays.  Hurrah!  

That being done, the topic of tonight's seminar will be Inchcolm Island!   Inchcolm is one of the islands in the Firth of Forth.  There's a very picturesque ruined abbey on it, so one sunnyish day I went to explore it.   I took a bus from Waverley Bridge and then boarded the boat at Queensferry.   It's a great little island!  Not much to see other than the abbey though, just a few WW2 fortifications.   But I had a good time photographing the Abbey and scrambling about in long grass.   I practiced HDR again this trip, and I was quite pleased with the results.   Here are a few of my favorite HDR pics from the day:

                                                                Forth Rail Bridge

                                                                     The Abbey

                                                 I hate whoever put that bin there!

And one non HDR photo that I like:

                                       The late afternoon light on this rock was spectacular!




And for good measure, a seal!