Auburn waves, hazel eyes and a real weakness for a small theatre with a short run.
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Backstage would suit Lea perfectly if anybody thought to offer. She is 161 cm and petite, quick to laugh and quicker to change a plan, with auburn hair falling in soft waves and hazel eyes that crease up whenever something amuses her, which is often. Early twenties, she dresses like somebody who has read the production notes before arriving: a velvet jacket, something plain underneath it, and one piece of jewellery whose history you will hear in full if you ask about it.
Sweet is accurate and spontaneous is the better half of the description. Plans shift around her, usually for the better, and she is that rare person capable of being genuinely delighted by a bad play. Her English is fluent and entirely unguarded. Interiors are the professional obsession, and she will clock a room before she clocks the people standing in it. Ceramics are what she makes with her hands on a Sunday. Theatre is where the rest of her money reliably goes.
Her Covent Garden evening is built around an early curtain. The Donmar Warehouse on Earlham Street suits her best, two hundred and fifty odd seats with nobody further than four rows from the stage, which she claims ruins a person for anywhere larger. Supper comes afterwards, somewhere in Seven Dials with a kitchen still working, and she will have firm views on the set design well before she gets round to the acting.
Belgravia is home and the run into Covent Garden takes twenty minutes, though the seats are the part that wants warning. Give booking a date and a curtain time, and everything else gets arranged backwards from there.
Her home stage is Belgravia, and she travels from there to the venues this house covers. Her full listing sits with the rest of the company on the companions page.
Midweek pre-theatre starts suit her best, and weekend seats want planning a few days out. Her usual shape is 90 minutes at £400 before a curtain, or the full dinner date at £900 with supper afterwards. Tell the desk the curtain time when you write, and she plans the table backwards from it.
Each length on the ladder, the travel rule and the terms for a change of plan are set out line by line on the rates page, and the wording to send sits on the booking page.
// Time and companionship only · travelling anywhere across Zones 1 and 2 adds nothing · the figure is settled with her in person
She would far rather be collected at six than at eight, because the hour before a curtain is her favourite hour of any evening in London. One drink somewhere small, then the walk through Seven Dials while the streets fill up, and she will point out three doorways you would have walked past for years without noticing. None of it is showing off. She simply cannot help looking at buildings.
Inside the theatre she is completely absorbed and entirely silent. Afterwards, over supper, the whole lot comes out at once: what the lighting did, why the second half worked, whether the set was clever or merely expensive. She asks what you made of it and then actually waits for the answer. If the evening stretches on it does so slowly, and usually on foot.
Then supper has a much better subject. A bad evening in a good theatre still beats a good evening in a dull restaurant.
Because from four rows back you can watch people think. Nobody gets to hide behind an expensive set, and neither does the writing.
Bowls, mostly, and not especially good ones. Clay is honest work, which makes a pleasant change from a city that largely is not.
Lea is on call today. Midweek curtains easiest, weekends planned ahead Message the desk and we will confirm the hour before anything is held.
No moderated note has been left for Lea on this site so far. We publish first names, the month and the words themselves, we never invent a line, and we never print anything a companion would rather keep private. When guests do write in, their notes appear here exactly as they arrived.
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