Strangers look slightly menacing.
On the theatre front, there are new plays from Simon Stephens, Daniel Kitson, David Greig and David Harrower at the Traverse, while – on a slightly stranger note – David Hasselhoff will be performing a one-man show billed as "an intimate, hilarious evening of song, dance and audience interaction".
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There's also a slightly stranger reason why she might be fixated on where this music comes from.
But if a creature's anatomical features are described, I try to imagine, for example, how the jaw might work...and then try and adapt that and attach it to something that sounds okay to the ear and is still slightly stranger than normal".
Big crowds of strangers make me slightly nervous, and darn it.... why did I forget that a party like that really isn't my cup of tea?
Alan Hollinghurst is currently the favourite with The Stranger's Child (Picador), slightly inhibited by having won in 2004.
Peter Souter's play – first seen at Hampstead's downstairs space – opens, appropriately, at the start of the new year, with sassy and smart Juliet making a fresh start in a new flat, only to discover a mix-up at the agency means there's a handsome, if slightly geeky, stranger moving in too.
My character moved away quite young, so they are slightly like strangers and yet know each other so well".
My knuckles were bruised, my confidence shook, my guilt at the lies I'd told countless strangers starting to become slightly overbearing.
