Over-dramatic

An afternoon and evening out in Oxford makes for a very late night. A Terence Rattigan double-bill - plays written and set in the 1940s and 50s - the upper middle classes in private hotels and private schools, repressed and quietly vicious, observed with a dry humour and a sad empathy. Very well staged, performed and received

The plays were among the last written before John Osborne created Look Back in Anger and performance art changed forever. I was left with the feeling of "thank goodness the world isn't like that any more - either the theatre or society". Then we walked through the city to catch the bus, following confident, bright young men with shining skin, wearing black bow-ties and dinner jackets, and you wonder

We had dinner in an Oxford restaurant; Italian pasta made on the premises by an Italian family. Equally home-made desert - the heavenly Venetian classic, tiramisu. We made a Bridge of Sighs