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Have just come to the conclusion that Strictly Come Dancing clearly is bad for my health and mum was right when she said not to watch it *nods* After all I wasn't coughing before it started and that's how cause and effect work isn't it?
(I may have also struggled round the NT this morning but that was because there was outside-ness and I am quite convinced that outside is bad for my health and always has been :P)
This morning N and I went on a tour of the National Theatre and it was BRILLIANT. It was done by a woman who was a Front of House manager but she was really knowledgable and clearly loved the place (and our tour was at 10:30am and she was going to be there till after the post-show gig that evening at gone midnight!)
We got into all three theatres and the workshops and the rehersal rooms and we stood n the Lyttleton stage and chatted to one of the lighting guys who gave us a demonstration of how the fly system worked because he was having to move a curtain (John Lithgow had been rehearsing for his one man show but it's Power of Yes on tonight).
This guy, who was just passing and stopped to answer questions, also told us how he worked on Les Parents Terribles which Jude Law was in and how because of the sight-lines in the theatre Jude spent part of the play in a bath, completely naked, entirely within view of the back third of the Lyttleton circle. Which is where the schoolkids tend to sit *g*g*g*
We also saw some of the set being made for Nation ♥ and also for Habit of Art which was COMPLETELY fascinating because for Habit of Art they're effectively recreating the rehersal rooms as a set so currently in the rehersal room there is a set mimicin itself... so a real kitchen and then a fake rehersal room kitchen etc. it was rather confusing!
We also saw them building the set for the new play in the Cottesloe which was weird because Our Class had been in the round and this one is a very much more an ordinary theatre and it really brought home how much they can change that space. Lower the floor (it's actually a lift! as is the Lyttleton stage apparently, the whole stage! and they can also shrink the proscenium arch in the Lyttleton) and the chairs in a different arrangement and this box for a stage.
So yes. VERY good tour and very interesting and we spotted Richard Griffiths' changing room (and I spotted Edward Hogg's :P) and generally I had a fab time :D
Then I wandered along to the Tate Modern to look at the new thing in the Turbine Hall. It's this giant metal box ad you stand in front of it and see people walking into it and disappearing into the darkness and it's kind of cool except OMG they need bigger signs saying don't take photos inside but who takes flash photography in a deliberately dark space? The British public apparently. Idiots. I can sort of see what it was aiming for and it's kind of cool but... IDK nothing special?
Then I came home and slept and coughed and drank tea and coughed and then I stopped coughing and then Strictly started and we're back when we started.
(I may have also struggled round the NT this morning but that was because there was outside-ness and I am quite convinced that outside is bad for my health and always has been :P)
This morning N and I went on a tour of the National Theatre and it was BRILLIANT. It was done by a woman who was a Front of House manager but she was really knowledgable and clearly loved the place (and our tour was at 10:30am and she was going to be there till after the post-show gig that evening at gone midnight!)
We got into all three theatres and the workshops and the rehersal rooms and we stood n the Lyttleton stage and chatted to one of the lighting guys who gave us a demonstration of how the fly system worked because he was having to move a curtain (John Lithgow had been rehearsing for his one man show but it's Power of Yes on tonight).
This guy, who was just passing and stopped to answer questions, also told us how he worked on Les Parents Terribles which Jude Law was in and how because of the sight-lines in the theatre Jude spent part of the play in a bath, completely naked, entirely within view of the back third of the Lyttleton circle. Which is where the schoolkids tend to sit *g*g*g*
We also saw some of the set being made for Nation ♥ and also for Habit of Art which was COMPLETELY fascinating because for Habit of Art they're effectively recreating the rehersal rooms as a set so currently in the rehersal room there is a set mimicin itself... so a real kitchen and then a fake rehersal room kitchen etc. it was rather confusing!
We also saw them building the set for the new play in the Cottesloe which was weird because Our Class had been in the round and this one is a very much more an ordinary theatre and it really brought home how much they can change that space. Lower the floor (it's actually a lift! as is the Lyttleton stage apparently, the whole stage! and they can also shrink the proscenium arch in the Lyttleton) and the chairs in a different arrangement and this box for a stage.
So yes. VERY good tour and very interesting and we spotted Richard Griffiths' changing room (and I spotted Edward Hogg's :P) and generally I had a fab time :D
Then I wandered along to the Tate Modern to look at the new thing in the Turbine Hall. It's this giant metal box ad you stand in front of it and see people walking into it and disappearing into the darkness and it's kind of cool except OMG they need bigger signs saying don't take photos inside but who takes flash photography in a deliberately dark space? The British public apparently. Idiots. I can sort of see what it was aiming for and it's kind of cool but... IDK nothing special?
Then I came home and slept and coughed and drank tea and coughed and then I stopped coughing and then Strictly started and we're back when we started.