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We saw Ngapartji Ngapartji last night. It was a beautiful story that took me a bit by surprise. The actors were conscious of the problem with a bunch of black guys coming and putting on a play for a bunch of rich white guys. It wasn't a white play done by black people. Although perhaps it isn't my place to decide that. Either way it was brilliant.

I went to Exit the King tonight by myself. I wasn't sure if I was meant to find somebody to take mum's ticket, or even if I was meant to be going tonight. As it turned out, I was meant to be going and I should have got someone else to go with me to take the spare ticket.

Sadly, it was so extraordinarily bad that I left in the intermission. I've never done that before, because normally when it's that bad the theatre is half empty and I feel sorry for the actors. Geoffrey Rush was in this one, so the place was packed. I didn't feel so bad leaving.

Other people in the audience seemed to be laughing, but I reckon it was the worst Belvoir play I've seen, possibly equalled by the Threepenny Opera which we were ever so close to walking out of.

Instead of watching the end I went to Sagar South Indian restaurant to test out their masala dosas. Very good they were. Definitely a candidate for dosa club were it ever to recommence. I was the only person in the restaurant and I had a long chat with the waiter while I was eating. He had arrived from India recently and was a funny fellow indeed. He told me about this story he'd read and loved called The Silver Candlesticks. It was about this convict who stays the night as this bishops house and then steals his silver candlesticks. But when the police catch the convict the bishops tells them the candlesticks were a gift. I told the waiter that it sounded quite like another story I've heard about, but he insisted it was a different one.

All of us good people went to Keating! last night at Belvoir. It was only our second play at the new theatre, and I still like it a bunch. They haven't changed any of the good things, and they have got rid of all the bad things. Like the floor that felt like it had been waxed with vegetable oil.

I, and I think all of us, loved Keating. It was so so funny. I laughed non-stop and after it had finished I kept chuckling to myself all evening. The writing of the music and the lyrics were really quality. Much better than most of the other plays I've seen this year. And it was really nice because they were making fun of Keating, but you could also tell that they loved him to bits. I doubt you'll enjoy it if you've ever voted for John Howard. But I liked Paul Keating a lot when I was little and he was in power, and as I've got older I've liked him more and more.

But it was all just beautiful. So many good songs and funny little pieces. And the guy who wrote it did a fabulous job of being Alexander Downer, although I suspect Downer would feel that they haven't fully captured and done justice to all the nuances of his character.

I wish I'd read more about his quotes before I went to see it. All the best lines from the musical we taken straight from Keating's days in parliament. I wish we had politicians like that still. He absolutely creamed John Hewson. Poor chap.

We went to A Midsummer Night's Dream last night at Belvoir. I love Belvoir. And it was a totally way awesome play. I haven't laughed so much in years. The acting was great. Whoever wrote the script did a really good job too. So hilarious.

The odd thing is, when I read it in high school I really didn't like it at all. I thought it was stupid and not at all funny. And Bottom just annoyed me. Maybe my sense of humour has got less sophisticated since I was 12. I hope that's the reason. Although maybe it was just fun because it was done by Belvoir and Belvoir is the best.

Everyone should go and see it. It's only $20 or something. And there are still tickets because the theatre wasn't full last night.