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hooloovoo_42 and I had an enjoyable day out in London yesterday. Since our days out consist almost entirely of what I can only liken to a pub crawl, although we substitute "Starbucks" for "pub" - and talking for hours, we didn't do anything exciting, but given that between us, we've got a couple of gammy legs and two bad backs, I think the fact that we actually manage to get anywhere at all is cause for celebration!
We went to see the Dynamic Duo in Much Ado About Nothing last night - second time for me, first for her - and in a strange twist, due to a cock-up on the bookings front by the theatre, we ended up being moved from the Circle down to the second row of the Stalls. That has good and bad points, I suppose. The good is pretty obvious ;-) - the bad, that you have to look up most of the time and don't have an overall view of all areas of the stage.
David is obviously having a great time doing this play and now they've settled in more, they're tinkering with bits and pieces. The main thing I noticed was right at the end, after the snog (which I swear was even longer than before!); in Benedick's speech to the Prince, Catherine was filling in words here and there which was very cute.
The thing I didn't like was that almost the entire audience was laughing like mad at the "Kill Claudio" moment. It wasn't at all played for laughs - and although I said in my original review that what goes before IS played that way, and is probably meant to provide contrast, it doesn't seem to be working like that. I know that probably makes me sound incredibly snobbish, and I don't mean to be. But that's a key moment in the play and is, I think, an incredibly important moment for Beatrice; and it's not supposed to be funny.
However, I imagine that if the performers and the director were unhappy with it, they'd have changed it by now. And perhaps it's not like that every night - it wasn't that bad the last time I went - and I've only been on Saturday nights when perhaps it's a different type of crowd. I dunno.
The other thing about which I am most indignant on behalf of my fellow fangirls and especially those who aren't fortunate enough to be able to see this for themselves - is the lack of photographic record of David in those denim cut offs. It's a terrible crime against womankind.
We did go around to the stage door, but I think there must've been a fangirl bus in last night, so we didn't get a look in. Also, being right at the front probably didn't help because we were among the last out of the theatre. I did get my programme signed the last time I was there, but I didn't manage to get any photos - still, there's always next time!
hooloovoo_42 and I had an enjoyable day out in London yesterday. Since our days out consist almost entirely of what I can only liken to a pub crawl, although we substitute "Starbucks" for "pub" - and talking for hours, we didn't do anything exciting, but given that between us, we've got a couple of gammy legs and two bad backs, I think the fact that we actually manage to get anywhere at all is cause for celebration!We went to see the Dynamic Duo in Much Ado About Nothing last night - second time for me, first for her - and in a strange twist, due to a cock-up on the bookings front by the theatre, we ended up being moved from the Circle down to the second row of the Stalls. That has good and bad points, I suppose. The good is pretty obvious ;-) - the bad, that you have to look up most of the time and don't have an overall view of all areas of the stage.
David is obviously having a great time doing this play and now they've settled in more, they're tinkering with bits and pieces. The main thing I noticed was right at the end, after the snog (which I swear was even longer than before!); in Benedick's speech to the Prince, Catherine was filling in words here and there which was very cute.
The thing I didn't like was that almost the entire audience was laughing like mad at the "Kill Claudio" moment. It wasn't at all played for laughs - and although I said in my original review that what goes before IS played that way, and is probably meant to provide contrast, it doesn't seem to be working like that. I know that probably makes me sound incredibly snobbish, and I don't mean to be. But that's a key moment in the play and is, I think, an incredibly important moment for Beatrice; and it's not supposed to be funny.
However, I imagine that if the performers and the director were unhappy with it, they'd have changed it by now. And perhaps it's not like that every night - it wasn't that bad the last time I went - and I've only been on Saturday nights when perhaps it's a different type of crowd. I dunno.
The other thing about which I am most indignant on behalf of my fellow fangirls and especially those who aren't fortunate enough to be able to see this for themselves - is the lack of photographic record of David in those denim cut offs. It's a terrible crime against womankind.
We did go around to the stage door, but I think there must've been a fangirl bus in last night, so we didn't get a look in. Also, being right at the front probably didn't help because we were among the last out of the theatre. I did get my programme signed the last time I was there, but I didn't manage to get any photos - still, there's always next time!