Henry IV @ Görlitzer Park, with guest appearances from Orson Welles and Harold Bloom
Phew, tired & happy! I've walked around above Alexanderplats today, looking for the comic shop Grober Unfug which I thought was somewhere by the subway station Weinmeisterstrasse. Turns out they'd moved up a stop (I suspected as much when I began to see the very fancy stores that are all over the area now, not the kind of neighbours comic stores can usually afford. Alas). But! They'd left a sign behind and with some luck and a few helpful locals, I found them again. Larger store, but quite small manga department. There was many more titles in the Thalia bookshop in that big shopping senter at Alex.
I also had to stop at restaurant Transit for a somewhat too expensive, but amazingly tasty lunch. I honestly only gave them a second look because the waitresses were standing and giggling in the open window, they looked a bit too preppy for me. But, happy waitresses? And Asian food, of some kind of izakaya/tapas variety?
Weeell, I took the chance and don't regret it a bit. 3 small dishes, a bubble tea and a bowl of rice came to about 12 euro and it was among the best modern Asian I've had. Ever.
It was also plenty filling - each small dish cost 3 euro and I could honestly have skipped the rice, except as mouth soothener after the spicy beef salad. I warmly recommend it, and you can get every dish vegetarian too.
Today I also got myself a Tip magazine, which contains info about events in Berlin. (On a side-note, I'm always positively surprised by how much actual written content German magazines have. Even Tip carries several editorials and a couple of readable articles)
Anyway, tonight there was apparantly a free Shakespeare play in a nearby park.
Free is good, thinks I, and also the weather today was bloody marvelous. Almost too hot and sunny - which means it should be (and it was) perfect at seven in the evening.
I thought it would be some kind of outdoors stage, but instead we - the actors and the quite large audience - all moved around in the park, from scene to scene. They'd used the landscape quite well and the props were quite minial: A sign proclaiming things like "England", "Wales" etc, a few handheld items and an army of stuffed animals (don't snigger, in the darkness beneath a amphitheatre, lit only by torches at the end of the play when tension's already been racked up, it worked surprisingly well). The most elaborate scene was the tea party of Orson Welles and Harald Bloom... Yes, you read that right. They, together with the rumor, acted as a kind of greek choir (and Scottish prisoners of war) and summarised parts of the events.
So we followed the beast of rumor, Falstaff, Hotspur and the others around. I'm pretty sure we picked up a few audience members from other park visitors unless there were a lot of late comers. And it really worked well, all the audience going around, finding new seats and I was quite surprised when it ended that we'd been making our way around the park for two and a half hours (no break, but they handed out cakes at one scene)!
The play was entertaining, more engaging than I would've thought and the only downside was that it was a bit hard to hear what happened sometime, especially when prince Harry spoke, but otherwise I count is as a most successful experience.
There's another show tomorrow, same time and place, if anyone thinks it sounds like fun. And is in Berlin, ehe ;)
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.
I also had to stop at restaurant Transit for a somewhat too expensive, but amazingly tasty lunch. I honestly only gave them a second look because the waitresses were standing and giggling in the open window, they looked a bit too preppy for me. But, happy waitresses? And Asian food, of some kind of izakaya/tapas variety?
Weeell, I took the chance and don't regret it a bit. 3 small dishes, a bubble tea and a bowl of rice came to about 12 euro and it was among the best modern Asian I've had. Ever.
It was also plenty filling - each small dish cost 3 euro and I could honestly have skipped the rice, except as mouth soothener after the spicy beef salad. I warmly recommend it, and you can get every dish vegetarian too.
Today I also got myself a Tip magazine, which contains info about events in Berlin. (On a side-note, I'm always positively surprised by how much actual written content German magazines have. Even Tip carries several editorials and a couple of readable articles)
Anyway, tonight there was apparantly a free Shakespeare play in a nearby park.
Free is good, thinks I, and also the weather today was bloody marvelous. Almost too hot and sunny - which means it should be (and it was) perfect at seven in the evening.
I thought it would be some kind of outdoors stage, but instead we - the actors and the quite large audience - all moved around in the park, from scene to scene. They'd used the landscape quite well and the props were quite minial: A sign proclaiming things like "England", "Wales" etc, a few handheld items and an army of stuffed animals (don't snigger, in the darkness beneath a amphitheatre, lit only by torches at the end of the play when tension's already been racked up, it worked surprisingly well). The most elaborate scene was the tea party of Orson Welles and Harald Bloom... Yes, you read that right. They, together with the rumor, acted as a kind of greek choir (and Scottish prisoners of war) and summarised parts of the events.
So we followed the beast of rumor, Falstaff, Hotspur and the others around. I'm pretty sure we picked up a few audience members from other park visitors unless there were a lot of late comers. And it really worked well, all the audience going around, finding new seats and I was quite surprised when it ended that we'd been making our way around the park for two and a half hours (no break, but they handed out cakes at one scene)!
The play was entertaining, more engaging than I would've thought and the only downside was that it was a bit hard to hear what happened sometime, especially when prince Harry spoke, but otherwise I count is as a most successful experience.
There's another show tomorrow, same time and place, if anyone thinks it sounds like fun. And is in Berlin, ehe ;)
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.