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May. 20th, 2004 10:46 amdid wanderings to london yesterday for theatre. woot! i like going wednesdays cause i can go to matinees and see 2 plays in 1 day.
saw hamlet at the old vic. apparently the title role is being shared by 2 people, one who does mondays and matinees and the other who does the rest. so i probably saw the less-good one, or at least not the one the papers are all excited about. but it was quite good. they made all the students--hamlet, laertes, horatio, rosencrantz and guildenstern--actually student age. ophelia was still in like secondary school--she even had the uniform. all in modern dress. they even had machine guns! very cool-looking production and very well executed. hamlet was somewhere in between the petulant teenager and being really suffering from depression and grief. really neat.
then i went and saw the shape of things which was most excellent. i've seen it before--one of the student groups at my school did a production--so it didn't have as dramatic an impact on me as the first time round. it has a very surprise/shock type ending so i won't say more about it except to tell people to go see it, cause it's damn good. or at least rent the film version when it comes out it june. i have not seen it but it's one of those scripts that shines so very much that all it needs is solid rather than brilliant acting to be enjoyable.
saw hamlet at the old vic. apparently the title role is being shared by 2 people, one who does mondays and matinees and the other who does the rest. so i probably saw the less-good one, or at least not the one the papers are all excited about. but it was quite good. they made all the students--hamlet, laertes, horatio, rosencrantz and guildenstern--actually student age. ophelia was still in like secondary school--she even had the uniform. all in modern dress. they even had machine guns! very cool-looking production and very well executed. hamlet was somewhere in between the petulant teenager and being really suffering from depression and grief. really neat.
then i went and saw the shape of things which was most excellent. i've seen it before--one of the student groups at my school did a production--so it didn't have as dramatic an impact on me as the first time round. it has a very surprise/shock type ending so i won't say more about it except to tell people to go see it, cause it's damn good. or at least rent the film version when it comes out it june. i have not seen it but it's one of those scripts that shines so very much that all it needs is solid rather than brilliant acting to be enjoyable.
