The Week In Entertainment

Grrr. Thought I'd scheduled this but only saved it...

Live: The Thirty-Nine Steps at the Hippodrome, part of Broadway Across America. This play is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and not just on a stage. It's remarkable how closely they could keep to the script while the actions rendered necessary by the cast of four (yes: Richard Hannay, one woman playing Annabella/Pamela/Margaret, and two guys playing everybody else) subverted the suspense and just made it damn funny. Plus, the scene where Hannay crosses the loch - hysterical.

DVD: Some of the Murdoch Mysteries, based on the novels by Maureen Jennings. This Canadian series is fun, so far - "cutting-edge Victorian science" as employed by the Toronto police department just before the turn of the century (19th, that is). Also a couple of the Tommy & Tuppence shows, and a Russian film called "Two Comrades Were Serving (Служили два товарища)" which is a very funny Civil War comedy.

Read: Finished The Leavenworth Mystery and also read The Woman in the Alcove. Intriguing puzzles and a time frame so long ago that it feels very alien (unlike Murdoch, which is written by a living author and set in the 1890s, these were written then).