In the last couple of months I have made two experiments of urban exploration. The first time the idea was triggered by the description I read of a theatre show centred on the abandoned lunatic asylum ...
... Theatre and a surprise was yet forthcoming.
I had set my heart at rest about the possibility of watching an opera performance in Russia, partly because August is the closing month for most theatres ...
... cultural centre cum theatre which rose from a waste platform of concrete slabs.
After the last days of intense activity I was feeling as exhausted as that wrecked urban landscape, but the delightful ...
... and the nice geometry of the circus dome opposite. Between the two there was a permanent market under canopied stalls. I passed the big theatre and entered a vast square dominated by the unavoidable statue ...
I was staring at the theatre built in dark red bricks with a high-contrast adornment of white window trims and gables. The air was hot and dry, the sun glared high in a clear blue sky, a perfect continental ...
... year to the town of Rossosh, which was the theatre of the epic battle of Nikolayevka in January 1943. In the harsh continental winter, the Red Army, which had already succeeded in pushing back the invaders, ...
... for a little longer than was required by good manners, and I quickly concluded that she must consider me the coarse one.
In the evening performances take place nearly every day in the theatre, but they ...
... and is one of its features. Be it as it may, I was glad to be back in Bratislava by the evening and stroll in the cold air along the central avenue that leads to the National Theatre, then along an avenue ...
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I woke up late after a wriggly night and left the bag at the hotel. Zunyi is famous for being the theatre of a conference that marked the rise of Mao Zedong in the Communist leadership at the time of ...
... made a spectacular setting in itself. In fact, the waterfall was reduced to a meagre trickle, but the grand sandstone amphitheatre was a sight in its own right. More surprising still were the trails that ...
... with only being able to speak Castilian.
In Figueras I visited the Theatre Museum that collects the works of the creative genius that was Salvador Dalì. Whatever idea whirled in his mind and was churned ...
This year has been an autumn of opera for me after years of not attending any show. I timidly started with a performance at the theatre, which I liked so much that I immediately made plans to go to the ...
... had come out a winner, but with a terrible toll of lives, wounded and disabled war veterans.
Like other similar places on the front, Mount Pasubio was the theatre of harsh combats between the Italian ...
... own rhythm, creating a symphonic effect as if an orchestra of different instruments was playing for an open-air theatre audience. Then, one of the cicadas catches up with the first, and their buzz overlaps ...
... theatre. I was expecting her at half past eight, which would leave us sufficient time to park and walk to the theatre.
Half past eight struck on the clock, but Claudia didn’t turn up. Every minute that ...
... and brought the man down to my own dimension as someone following practical pursuits.
Archaeology
The Roman stadion under the mosque square and the Roman theatre are beautiful examples of yet another ...
... I’m seized by a similar sort of wonder that is produced by the sudden change of theatre scenes, only this time it’s a natural and slow change over an immense jaw-dropping landscape that unites stunning ...
... resorts.
As you come out of the swimming centre, you are met with an enchanting view over the amphitheatre of the hills that can change from a crib-like winter scene dotted with lights, occasionally ...
... took on a magical bluish tinge. Cracking plaques of snow covered a steep slope opposite in what looked like a natural amphitheatre of gigantic proportions.
For several times we could ...