

Coming back to London in less than a month now and ready for it:
On Ageing at Young Vic Theatre: a play perfomed by kids.
“From the moment we’re born, we grow, we change. Nothing ever stays the same.
As an empty room fills with memories, a group of extraordinary performers create a portrait of a lifetime over the course of a show.
With playful energy, wry humour and brutal honesty that come only from children, On Ageing builds a landscape of words and images, to explore living as a journey of endless change.
Performed by children for an audience of adults, On Ageing is the latest in a series of acclaimed performances by Fevered Sleep that unravel and reimagine the fabric of everyday life.”
2010 at Six to Start has been marked by victories, with the multi-award-winning Smokescreen, and there were also some arrivals and departures. Lisa, the Chief of Operations, left early this year, and in June, Dan left to join Wieden + Kennedy in the US. New blood came in with Ernesto Jimenez and…
My time at Six to Start

C’est presque la fin.
Daria & Jane au Roughtrade photobooth (part 1)
I’d always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged after the Revolutionary War, while British accents remained more or less the same.
Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadn’t yet diverged. That’s not too surprising.
What is surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to today’s American accents than to today’s British accents. While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.