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Trump is clearly a megalomaniac who needs to be stopped but I'm way more concerned by the number two (in so many ways). Mike Pence disturbs me more than I can say. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Trump is being used as a means to grab power by Pence via the back door without going through an election.

The law hasn’t changed. Exactly the same law was in place under Obama when the Democrats had majorities in both houses and they did precisely nothing about it. Children were separated from their parents at the border under Obama using exactly the same facilities and no-one posted a thing about it here. If you are suggesting Trump personally should tell them to ignore this law you’d better be ready for him to ignore a bunch of other laws too. Congress created the problem and needs to fix it. Of course a large majority of children being held at the border were sent there alone by their parents, often with strangers, in the hope they’d be allowed to stay and later bring their families - this is a harder problem to solve.

They do run two shows in rep, but unfortunately there's no way of knowing just yet what sort of gap they might have between A&C and the opening of Hadestown. They shut Follies down for a week in advance of opening George And The Dragon, and there was a much longer quiet patch between Common closing and Follies starting (although that was August, August is a dead period for London theatre). Hadestown is a production that already exists, so although they may need to build the set anew to fit the Olivier, they may not need as much tech time because it's a matter of adapting what they have rather than starting from scratch. It's therefore not impossible that they might run A&C up to and including Saturday 27th? (Looking at the Hadestown schedule, they're fairly full on for the first few weeks so I wouldn't hold out any hope for November performances of A&C.) If I were you, I'd be prepared for A&C to not be on at all while you're here. That way you're either already on the path to sad acceptance when the schedule is confirmed, or pleasantly surprised if it turns out you do overlap. (Keep your end-of-October planning as clear as you can until the dates are confirmed, just in case.)

So @ryan owns his own aeroplane company? Why are we only just learning about this now?

The on board entertainment could be interesting. I assume drinking is allowed?

Not a play, but still: Frances McDormand and her laureled husband Joel Coen at the all-Sibelius concert at the LSO on Thursday, in the company of the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas's husband, Joshua. Also there: Leslie Caron.