On a chilly Friday evening in Wellington, we went to St John’s Bar and Restaurant for a pre-theatre dinner. This was assisted by our good friends at the Entertainment Book, who helpfully took care of one of the main courses. I had a Chinese duck pancake to start, followed by Wagyu steak, and Nicola had a crayfish raviolo and pork belly with scallops. All very nice, and a waitress who knew about wine, to boot. We didn’t linger for dessert and coffees, as we had a show to see.
Next door at the Circa Theatre, we’d booked to see The Lead Wait. This is an NZ play first produced in the 1990s, now having a revival. It centres around four characters and the relationships between them – some of which are explicit, others only hinted at. It also involves all four characters undressing and having a bath at various points during the play. The set is a house in the midst of renovation – to the extent that the bathroom door and walls have been removed – I leave the rest to your imagination (something that we were not required to do)! It also involved one of the characters gutting and cooking a fish on a griddle, so our clothes will probably smell of fish now.
It all ended rather abruptly and we left in a somewhat confused state of mind about the meaning of the final line, worrying about the death of the canary, and wondering what it all meant.
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