Vanishing Horizons

Tony Cragg phones me from the installation in Shanghai. Problem: the galleries still look like a building site. “We can’t do anything. Have them call us when the museum’s ready and we’ll come back”. Cue: a day of fire-fighting which gets progressively more positive, and I feel I can go to see the first night of small theatre company Idle Motion’s 3-week China tour which kicks off this evening. It’s a play called Vanishing Horizons which I saw in Edinburgh last summer. Nice, inventive production interleaving a daughter-mother-grandmother relationship with the history of female aviation.