One evening we decided to visit a local cultural institution after its usual hours as it was hosting a special themed event for the public. Based around ideas of the 1920s - USA, jazz, prohibition, vintage clothing, modernism - a range of entertaining activities were enacted all around the museum, from a capella vocal groups to vintage clothing outlets. One chap named Bob Brown presented his 'reading machine' which failed to take into account that most residents of the area already knew how to read. How well they read Gertrude Stein and James Joyce I am less sure of.
There were also impromptu theatrical skits, one involving a young fellow with a drawn-on mustache steal a handbag from a young woman in flapper attire, accompanied by ragtime piano through a stereo. A make-believe 'speakeasy' was set up, accessed through a barricaded door by using the password 'Lucky', but the masquerade was too abstract for my feeble out-of-town mind.
Much merriment was had by all.
