The Shadow Box

Michel Christofer's moving Pullitzer-winning play 'The Shadow Box' is presented to the Madrid public, in English, by the Madrid Players. Three terminally ill patients all face their final battle. Joe, is an inarticulate but feeling husband and father; Brian, an overly-intellectual and unsuccessful bisexual writer, and Felicity, a prickly old lady who is kept going by the hoped-for, illusory return of a wayward daughter (who is really dead). How they and their loved ones cope is the subject of this drama, which offsets moments of great pathos with others of great comedy.

Fonfone

It was bound to happen. What was once a dark and cavernous heavy-metal bar located on a trashy street just behind the Plaça Reial, has now joined the ranks of the city's trendy clubs. Sleek, geometric forms of colourful, translucent plastic shine a light of pleasing artificiality on the pretty young things that lounge around on the club's 1970s-style plastic sofas. On the smallish dance floor in the back, things get grooving with funk, electro and breakbeat, though mostly the attractive clientele hang out and eye each other. Needless to say, the ghost of Ozzy Osborne has been thoroughly exorcised.