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Quiet day today, it shouldn't have been but I think I might have been doing too much recently and basically the thought of bed & a good book overwhelmed my to-do list completely. Doing the bare minimum is sometimes important for staying sane I find.
And I have managed to tick off some things that had gone red on HabitRPG so I can feel a little smug.
In the end I decided to make yesterday the day of ALL the science so I first popped into the British Library to see Beautiful Science which is a lovely little (free) exhibition of visual representations of statistics and if you have half an hour to spare it's a nice way to spend some time!
Then I headed over to South Kensington and the Science Museum (via pancakes because I'm incapable of passing the Creperie there) and headed straight to the Collider exhibition. It's £7 (if you don't get in free *coughs*) and I'm not sure I learned a LOT but then I know a fair bit about the LHC because one of my friends worked in CERN for a bit. I really enjoyed the exhibition though and they had some brilliant ways of breaking down the science and engineering into manageable chunks! I was slightly amused when, at the start, I was debating in my head whether the "engineers" and "scientists" in their films were real or actors and then suddenly there was Elliot Levy- actors then. IDK if the man next to me appreciated my fit of the giggles.
You also get a free pin saying you've been inside the world's largest experiment which, no, but it's a nice thought.
I spent a bit of time playing in the Wellcome Wing because I haven't in a while (my brain is neutral between male & female apparently) and then I went to see Mind Maps which is a free exhibition about Psychology and which was equal parts fascinating and upsetting (because isn't it incredible how human beings can figure out the ways our brain works but some of the ways they did that are unbearably cruel looking back)
After ALL of which I resisted the urge to buy everything in the Science Museum shop and then headed off to meet seiyaharris for supper, pink wine and then theatre :D
Lost Boy @ Charing Cross Theatre
Lost Boy starts out with George Llewellyn Davies going off to war with a copy of Peter Pan in his pocket given to him by his adoptive father JM Barrie but then he falls asleep in the grim greyness of the trenches and becomes Peter Pan.
Peter wants to marry Wendy and become a man but the Lost Boys are all rather broken- married to the "Lost Wives" but heading out every Friday night to look for trouble. Tink's had her wings removed and is a prostitute and Mr Darling has become VERY overprotective since Mrs Darling's death.
All of which ends as badly as you might image when Peter spends the night with Tink before his wedding and Wendy sends him away and then he goes to war.
Of course there are other details along the way- John Darling has gone into dream analysis (that's the first time I've ever heard a musical number about Jung) and Michael Darling is in the Music Hall having fallen in love with Geronimo and "Indian Brave" on the flying trapeze who can make him fly again.
I have to say the whole thing was put together so cleverly with this weird mix of fantasy and reality and the thought that all those boys who went to war were the first generation who had read Peter Pan (and other stories of that age) is one that's going to stick with me. The battle to choose Neverland and blue skies even when in the trenches sounded like a hopeless one though and it ended badly of course.
It's the first show to actually make me cry, not just get choked up but actually cry, in a long while because whilst Peter may be fictional George was only too real.
The cast were great too. Jodie Jacobs as Tink absolutely shattered my heart, Steven Butler made a great Peter Pan all bravado covering uncertainty but the most perfect piece of casting was Richard James-King as John because it was as if he'd stepped straight out of the book.
I hope the show is produced again, it came back this time because of popular demand and it really was a great show with clever arrangements and use of a small cast. I've been singing Michael's Song in my head all day.
And now I need to get ready because tonight I'm seeing James Rhodes play at the Soho Theatre and I couldn't be more excited <3
And I have managed to tick off some things that had gone red on HabitRPG so I can feel a little smug.
In the end I decided to make yesterday the day of ALL the science so I first popped into the British Library to see Beautiful Science which is a lovely little (free) exhibition of visual representations of statistics and if you have half an hour to spare it's a nice way to spend some time!
Then I headed over to South Kensington and the Science Museum (via pancakes because I'm incapable of passing the Creperie there) and headed straight to the Collider exhibition. It's £7 (if you don't get in free *coughs*) and I'm not sure I learned a LOT but then I know a fair bit about the LHC because one of my friends worked in CERN for a bit. I really enjoyed the exhibition though and they had some brilliant ways of breaking down the science and engineering into manageable chunks! I was slightly amused when, at the start, I was debating in my head whether the "engineers" and "scientists" in their films were real or actors and then suddenly there was Elliot Levy- actors then. IDK if the man next to me appreciated my fit of the giggles.
You also get a free pin saying you've been inside the world's largest experiment which, no, but it's a nice thought.
I spent a bit of time playing in the Wellcome Wing because I haven't in a while (my brain is neutral between male & female apparently) and then I went to see Mind Maps which is a free exhibition about Psychology and which was equal parts fascinating and upsetting (because isn't it incredible how human beings can figure out the ways our brain works but some of the ways they did that are unbearably cruel looking back)
After ALL of which I resisted the urge to buy everything in the Science Museum shop and then headed off to meet seiyaharris for supper, pink wine and then theatre :D
Lost Boy @ Charing Cross Theatre
Lost Boy starts out with George Llewellyn Davies going off to war with a copy of Peter Pan in his pocket given to him by his adoptive father JM Barrie but then he falls asleep in the grim greyness of the trenches and becomes Peter Pan.
Peter wants to marry Wendy and become a man but the Lost Boys are all rather broken- married to the "Lost Wives" but heading out every Friday night to look for trouble. Tink's had her wings removed and is a prostitute and Mr Darling has become VERY overprotective since Mrs Darling's death.
All of which ends as badly as you might image when Peter spends the night with Tink before his wedding and Wendy sends him away and then he goes to war.
Of course there are other details along the way- John Darling has gone into dream analysis (that's the first time I've ever heard a musical number about Jung) and Michael Darling is in the Music Hall having fallen in love with Geronimo and "Indian Brave" on the flying trapeze who can make him fly again.
I have to say the whole thing was put together so cleverly with this weird mix of fantasy and reality and the thought that all those boys who went to war were the first generation who had read Peter Pan (and other stories of that age) is one that's going to stick with me. The battle to choose Neverland and blue skies even when in the trenches sounded like a hopeless one though and it ended badly of course.
It's the first show to actually make me cry, not just get choked up but actually cry, in a long while because whilst Peter may be fictional George was only too real.
The cast were great too. Jodie Jacobs as Tink absolutely shattered my heart, Steven Butler made a great Peter Pan all bravado covering uncertainty but the most perfect piece of casting was Richard James-King as John because it was as if he'd stepped straight out of the book.
I hope the show is produced again, it came back this time because of popular demand and it really was a great show with clever arrangements and use of a small cast. I've been singing Michael's Song in my head all day.
And now I need to get ready because tonight I'm seeing James Rhodes play at the Soho Theatre and I couldn't be more excited <3