Bar Hispano Wed night

Die Hard 77 on TV. The Senate has just been blown up.

Have come from a satisfying rehearsal, continuing the work we were doing on 4, with the scene now transformed entirely, far more about CG’s journey into some kind of locura.

Had two extra curricular activities today with Karina. The first was the launch of the Iberohispanico fund/ project at midday, full of the great and the good of Montevideo theatre. The correlations between this event and a similar one in London were evident. People spending their time checking each other out, mingling and greeting with interest in the speakers apparently secondary.

Later we went to a wine club on Bulevar Espana. Its owned by a Spaniard, and they ‘support the arts’. They will supply wine for the opening and we can have meetings with the press in their building, which is beautiful: giant art noveau doors and stained glass windows in the atrium, a vine frieze in the mouldings around the high ceiling. I was asked what kind of wine I liked at the end of the meeting. The most celebrated Uruguayan wine is the Tannat, but I generally find it a bit heavy and said as much. I was told I probably hadn’t been drinking the good stuff, and was given a bottle to take away and sample.

Bruce Willis is saving the world.

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