BRING BACK SIR BERT
A perusal of the listings for the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington DC reveals that weekend visitors to the national culture centre of the US can sit through a playful bilingual production of the Philip Eastman children’s book ‘Go Dog! Go!’ or the presumably excruciating ad libbed stylings of the Improvised Shakespeare Company. Despite being the hottest ticket in town, Friday’s Geopolitics World Cup draw is notable by its absence from the venue’s schedule of events, presumably because the organisers have designated it strictly invitation only, lest any riff-raff darken the doorstep of what promises to be an excessively long, self-congratulatory procession at which assorted well-paid luminaries will parrot the tired platitude that “football unites the world”.
