2nd March 2017 – a Matinee
performance of Twelfth Night
Vanessa Bell at Dulwich Picture Gallery
It was a strange afternoon,
weatherwise. I walked to the underground station in pouring rain; I emerged by
the Thames in bright sunshine. I walked across the river by the footbridge from
Charing Cross Station, the next bridge downstream from Westminster. Then along
the Southbank, with its confusing proliferation of concrete modernist
buildings, to one of the biggest of them – the National Theatre.
There was a matinee
performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth
Night, beginning at 2pm. Forty minutes or so into the first half, the
terrorist atrocity was perpetrated about ½ mile away, in Westminster. The show
went on.
