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		<title>Musical review: Big Boys don&#8217;t Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Boys Don’t Dance. It has been a long year. Who is not in need of rambunctious laughter, an easy plot to follow and lots of loud and hearty music dished out with impressive bits of dancing? This show offers all of that and a dash of slapstick to keep it all going. Bradley and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1769&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theatre review: Phantom of the Opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Written by Gaston Leroux, Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Directed by Harold Prince, Lyrics by Charles Hart, Musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne. With Andre Schwartz, Jonathan Roxmouth, Robin Botha or Magdalene Minnaar, Angela Killian, James Borthwich, Jason Ralph, Hanlee Louw , Pauline du Plessis, Thabiso Masemene, Cat Lane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1765&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of migratory men and bird cages.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two days of lazing around on the beach, feasting on juicy tropical island fruit, burping lemon grass, swimming, sleeping and swimming and sleeping and swimming and drinking beer I got bored. Bored with myself &#8211; again. And a bit bored with the people around me, but I know it is not them it’s me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1755&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A miserable forced Friday night’s stay in the water-soaked streets of Bangkok turned downside up when I met Ingrid, a social worker from Austria. I went to have a drink at the Rooftop Bar, this really cool 3rd storey grunge bar across the road from the fleapit where I live.  Had the most boring 10 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1747&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bangkok &#8211; Going Nowhere Slowly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update on the floods in Thailand and Bangkok My train is not leaving. Or it is. Or maybe it is? No its not. It depends on who you talk to. I could have waited until seven thirty this evening to find out, but the potential of a woman alone being stuck on a water-logged station, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1726&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Bangkok</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to leave Bangkok. Quick.  The rain came last night.  It rained for a long time and Khao San street erupted in a flurry of scattering tourists and locals. Then it really stank! A five-day holiday was announced in Bangkok and 20 provinces to give people the chance to escape the rising waters. Bangkok Governor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1722&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand.</title>
		<link>http://astridstark1.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Thai Government is offering around 5000 baht as a bounty for the 200 or so crocodiles that have ecaped from the many farms surrounding Bankok. Pocket money? Sitting inside a bamboo and Christmas light infested Khaosan holiday guest house, in the heart of the mad Khao San road in the heart of the equally mad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1717&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Thailand &#8211; Flippers en water brille.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is it. Ticket: check. Insurance: check. No itinerary planned because it is a fly-by-the seat-of-my pants (time to put down the remote control) kind of holiday. Now I just need to draft that letter which says they must leave my body in Thailand, should I come to an unfortunate demise during my holiday. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1713&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theatre review: OFFBEAT BROADWAY 4 – Older, fatter, slower.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High energy time-travel through Broadway musicals. Watching this trio unleash their satirical humour and musical genius onto the audience is like being hurtled along a roller-coaster of hysterical laughter and intense nostalgia. The threesome call Offbeat Broadway 4: older, fatter, slower, but they are certainly not acting their ages. For nearly two hours Anton Luitingh, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astridstark1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6070951&amp;post=1707&amp;subd=astridstark1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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