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smallhobbit) wrote2013-08-25 08:38 pm
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Thirty Days Meme: Day 1 - Hamlet
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draycevixen and snailbones I've decided to try to write something every day for the next thirty days. And since this is a blog entry I'm typing direct to LJ so there may be errors, but if I'm going to do it then I need to just write and hit "post" without dithering around, so reader be warned.
Anyone who knows me well will know that my great love is theatre I aim to see at least twelve plays a year, which I have already achieved with two months to run (my year runs from my birthday). And that is if you could all three parts of Henry VI as one play. If you don't that's 14 and still counting.
I travel around to see plays I'm interested in, and since Stratford-upon-Avon is only just over an hour's drive away, I go quite often.
Anyway, yesterday OH and I went to see Hamlet. I saw it early in the season with my good friendphyllisdobbs01 but OH and I had to meet his sister in Stratford in the morning, to discuss family business, so we decided to make the most of the journey and see a play whilst we were there. He'd never seen Hamlet before, so I was keen to expand his education.
He was bowled over by the production. And was quite choked at the end. So the visit was a great success. I enjoyed seeing the play again, despite having a pillar in front of me and having to move from side to side. When Phyllis and I had gone we'd had seats in the front row, so anything else was going to be slightly anticlimatic. OH had a seat with a clear view, which was what mattered.
We thought Jonathon Slinger was an excellent Hamlet. His interpretation was completely different from any I had seen before (John Simm, Jude Law, Edward Bennett as understudy for David Tennant) and made a great deal of sense. I've seen Slinger in a number of the RSC productions and is someone I will make a point of going to see. Greg Hicks (another actor at the top of my 'must see' list) did a great turn at both Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet's father - a great actor in his own right he gave all the support needed for Slinger's Hamlet.
And we saw my daughter in the evening and her flat, which she freely admits is a tip. And we were allowed to take her out for a meal. So a good day all round.
draycevixen and snailbones I've decided to try to write something every day for the next thirty days. And since this is a blog entry I'm typing direct to LJ so there may be errors, but if I'm going to do it then I need to just write and hit "post" without dithering around, so reader be warned.Anyone who knows me well will know that my great love is theatre I aim to see at least twelve plays a year, which I have already achieved with two months to run (my year runs from my birthday). And that is if you could all three parts of Henry VI as one play. If you don't that's 14 and still counting.
I travel around to see plays I'm interested in, and since Stratford-upon-Avon is only just over an hour's drive away, I go quite often.
Anyway, yesterday OH and I went to see Hamlet. I saw it early in the season with my good friend
phyllisdobbs01 but OH and I had to meet his sister in Stratford in the morning, to discuss family business, so we decided to make the most of the journey and see a play whilst we were there. He'd never seen Hamlet before, so I was keen to expand his education.He was bowled over by the production. And was quite choked at the end. So the visit was a great success. I enjoyed seeing the play again, despite having a pillar in front of me and having to move from side to side. When Phyllis and I had gone we'd had seats in the front row, so anything else was going to be slightly anticlimatic. OH had a seat with a clear view, which was what mattered.
We thought Jonathon Slinger was an excellent Hamlet. His interpretation was completely different from any I had seen before (John Simm, Jude Law, Edward Bennett as understudy for David Tennant) and made a great deal of sense. I've seen Slinger in a number of the RSC productions and is someone I will make a point of going to see. Greg Hicks (another actor at the top of my 'must see' list) did a great turn at both Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet's father - a great actor in his own right he gave all the support needed for Slinger's Hamlet.
And we saw my daughter in the evening and her flat, which she freely admits is a tip. And we were allowed to take her out for a meal. So a good day all round.