2004-05-20

lucifermourning: (Default)
2004-05-20 10:46 am

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did 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.