Theatre and stuff
Argh, I'm not happy today. I took the weekend off work, but instead of doing something exciting with my saturday off, I'm feeling sick and it's raining. I wanted to use the chance to do something with my sister, or a friend of mine from my old job I hardly ever get the chance to see, but one isn't in the mood and the other isn't answering.
Bleurgh!
In better news I have a whole lot of cards from lovely fandom peeps! I'll take a photo on christmas day to show you!
In strange news I went to the theatre on Thursday. I hardly ever go to the theatre! I went with my sister and her boyfriend, and it was the first play they've seen in the West End since they came to London. We watched Strangers on a train at the Gielgud.
For those of you who don't know the West End that well (ie everyone, because this is some apocryphal knowledge!), the Gielgud is right next to the Apollo. And for those of you who don't live in the UK, the ceiling of the Apollo collapsed during the Thursday performance.
Strangers on a train is a film noir style thriller, so when, during intermission, we were told about the collapse in the Apollo and warned not to use the foyer because it was full of injured, it actually took us a little while to realise that this was not part of the play! Good grief! Going to the theatre is risky business! When the play finished we were ushered out the back exit to find half the area around the theatres cordoned off with police everywhere. We joked that maybe we should not go to the theatre, since we seem to bring bad luck.
[Critique of the play under here. Not to worry, no spoilers of the plot.]
The play itself was good. As most of the reviews said, the sets steal the show. They were really impressive! There was a revolving set that kept on changing. You wouldn't believe how many scene changes there were! And the light and projection show was very impressive. I loved how it was all done in grey, black and white, not only the sets and projection, but also the clothes. It seemed to be that the more moderate characters were also mainly clothed in grey while the more extreme ones were in black or white. There also was a strong soundtrack of old style film noire-ish music. And maybe that was a problem. The play was trying to emulate a film a bit too much. Being used to slower plays, with few very long scenes, all the scene changing did give me a bit of whiplash.
I will confess that I went mainly because Laurence Fox was in it. I have been obsessively watching Lewis lately. Unfortunately just before the curtains came up we were told he was indisposed and someone else was playing his part. Argh! That annoyed me no end! Thank god the other lead character was brilliantly played by Jack Huston (who I was told plays in Broadwalk Empire). Huston's character was the more interesting one, being the off kilter, drunken psychopath to Fox's straight man, but still he stole every scene!
Bleurgh!
In better news I have a whole lot of cards from lovely fandom peeps! I'll take a photo on christmas day to show you!
In strange news I went to the theatre on Thursday. I hardly ever go to the theatre! I went with my sister and her boyfriend, and it was the first play they've seen in the West End since they came to London. We watched Strangers on a train at the Gielgud.
For those of you who don't know the West End that well (ie everyone, because this is some apocryphal knowledge!), the Gielgud is right next to the Apollo. And for those of you who don't live in the UK, the ceiling of the Apollo collapsed during the Thursday performance.
Strangers on a train is a film noir style thriller, so when, during intermission, we were told about the collapse in the Apollo and warned not to use the foyer because it was full of injured, it actually took us a little while to realise that this was not part of the play! Good grief! Going to the theatre is risky business! When the play finished we were ushered out the back exit to find half the area around the theatres cordoned off with police everywhere. We joked that maybe we should not go to the theatre, since we seem to bring bad luck.
[Critique of the play under here. Not to worry, no spoilers of the plot.]
The play itself was good. As most of the reviews said, the sets steal the show. They were really impressive! There was a revolving set that kept on changing. You wouldn't believe how many scene changes there were! And the light and projection show was very impressive. I loved how it was all done in grey, black and white, not only the sets and projection, but also the clothes. It seemed to be that the more moderate characters were also mainly clothed in grey while the more extreme ones were in black or white. There also was a strong soundtrack of old style film noire-ish music. And maybe that was a problem. The play was trying to emulate a film a bit too much. Being used to slower plays, with few very long scenes, all the scene changing did give me a bit of whiplash.
I will confess that I went mainly because Laurence Fox was in it. I have been obsessively watching Lewis lately. Unfortunately just before the curtains came up we were told he was indisposed and someone else was playing his part. Argh! That annoyed me no end! Thank god the other lead character was brilliantly played by Jack Huston (who I was told plays in Broadwalk Empire). Huston's character was the more interesting one, being the off kilter, drunken psychopath to Fox's straight man, but still he stole every scene!