O/T Where is my mum's funeral invite?

[Zilzal]

GM, I asked my mum what 'kilometeres' means, and she said there's no such word. Nevertheless, we are no longer enemies.

CAM, the only Deirdre I've ever read about was in J.M. Synge's play 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' which he wrote on his deathbed aged 37. Happily, he did manage to finish 'The Playboy of the Western World' in about 1905 when he was co-founding the Abbey Theatre in Dublin with W.B. Yeats.

Somewhat bizarrely 'The Playboy' was staged at the Abbey Theatre to widespread rioting of the wrong kind. You never got that with an Alan Ayckbourn play in Scarborough for some odd reason.

[jolly_roger]

You would if it got in the way of the bingo.

[Zilzal]

And rightly so, Jolly.

If the women are getting Bingo Wings night after night whilst losing their money, a riot of some kind is perfectly acceptable.

[kempo]

Speaking of riots and the acting fraternity...riots in the Theatre were not uncommon in past times.

Possibly the most well known were the Old Price riots brought on by the increase in prices at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1809.