I really enjoyed Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican, at the weekend. Here are some bullet points

  • it’s a traditional Broadway-style musical…executed perfectly

  • it’s mad that human beings can be so talented

  • i really like the Barbican…but how much time has been spent over the years by people trying to work out the seat numbers?

  • the words are very witty. Cole Porter knew what he was doing

  • the updates were good too…it was neat that, given there was a Kate, and Ted, that they called the band leader ‘Steve’

  • the set reminded me a little bit of Adrian Dunbar’s theatre in Hear My Song

  • I was really impressed by what I later discovered is called “the chair rollover trick” link

  • it was worth turning the phone off just before England’s penalties….but tbf I dont much enjoy England penalties anyway

Kiss Me Kate poster