Day 25

by feather

Finally! A day we can sleep in!! Nothing planned until The Cherry Orchard at 7:30pm. But Of Course! Since it is our last week we still have things we Must do!

Up at 8:30, which actually is sleeping in here, just think of that dad! Never thought I’d say that.

Anywho, up at 8:30 to be out the door around 9-9:15 to catch the tube, go across the city to the WICKED theatre to see if we could get some matinee tickets!

There was a line.

Luckily it wasn’t too long, and we hoped that they all wanted to go to the night time showing.. x x x x fingers

We get up there and ask. show our student ids.. then get a pause. No expiration dates on our VT studend IDs.. Great. The ONLY theatre that we’ve had a problem with, and he was totally going to do it, but then a manager type person came over and decided not to. I asked if we could show our driver’s license to show our age because I thought that might help, I even said I had the phone number to our professor that was here with us doing study abroad.. but whatever. They did have two tickets off to the side a bit 4th row, for 25 pounds. That would be the cheapest w/o student ids. I really wonder what kind of seats we could have had if they had accepted them. BUT can’t go back. We got the two tickets off to the side 4th row back..

Found a lovely pub right next door 8 pounds for 2 meals! PERFECT. Ate there then did some window shopping until it was time.

WICKED! If any of you haven’t heard of this play: it is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphabe, from her point of view. At least, that’s all I knew about it.

It actually talked about BEFORE Dorothy comes and how she “becomes” wicked. yeah.. IT WAS AMAZING. Right up there with The Lion King! I think I really like musicals more so than just plays… but seriously, AMAZING. LOVED IT.

Their voices were just jaw-dropping.

Sadly it ended and we ran on over to the other theatre across a couple tube stops to meet up with our group mates to see our next play of the day. Not until after we ate a really interesting dinner at a place called Bangalore, an Indian restaurant. I’m not too fond of Indian food, but it was cheap and there was rice.. (don’t like curry). But there was a make-your-own meal that looked appealing. I got the “mildest” curry and it was actually really great! I wouldn’t put any more curry on it than they had, so I’m glad they didn’t douse it.

Alright alright, enough about food -you can see the pictures below

The Cherry Orchard. So, we were tired.. and it was a very slow play and the characters were dozing off and going to bed and there were a lot of long pauses. So needless today I missed a lot of the first half, but Kristyn got it, she missed most of the second half, and I got that. So together we saw the whole play. Ethan Hawke was in it! That kept me interested as much as my eyes could let me. Didn’t much care for it, but the entire idea behind the entire production sounds amazing. I’ll explain it:

So Kevin Spacey owns The Vic which is the theatre we saw the play in, and he’s friends with this British actor guy, who’s name escapes me, but when it was said I knew who it was right away, so big name, anywho- what they’re doing is performing 2 shows a shakespeare and then another one of their choosing and with the same group of actors – half british, half american, they’re putting on both shows and touring around the world. It’s supposed to be a big “coming together” of cultures and amazing experiences.

Sounds really cool

Cheers!

The stage of Wicked!

optimistic

hesitant

Dessert!!!

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