I've now officially gone to my final shows this summer for school! I had my last required play was Wednesday night!
Saturday we went to an all day performance entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan at the Tricycle Theatre that was surprisingly good. I expected a three part day long play to be exhausting to sit through, but the compilation of short stories told the history of Afghanistan over the past 150 from so many points of view and was captivating to see. The show really reminded me why we went to Afghanistan and was incredibly powerful.
Monday night we traveled back to The Globe Theatre for my 33nd show, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and we fortunate enough this time to have seats and not be stuck in standing room like we were for Macbeth. The play was really funny-it felt like a sitcom. The set design was quite impressive: there was a walkway that ran through the audience and cut the groundlings in half and a flower garden and love seat that were cool to see. And the show was equally well directed. Definitely one of the better, more serious plays we went to see.
Tuesday night we went to La Bete at the Comedy Theatre and it made absolutely no sense to me. The end.
Our final show of the summer was Sweet Charity, a Neil Simon work with Fosse's choreography. Time Out called this the "Best West End Musical" of the summer, but neither I nor my Dartmouth classmates agreed. The dance was amazing, but the story itself was kind of uninteresting. I was really surprised to find out it was written by Neil Simon.
35 plays later, and I'm finished for the summer! But there's a few shows this winter that I'm definitely interested in catching (Roald Dahl's Matilda! at the RSC and the 1970 film Love Story is going up as a musical this winter). I may just have to come back to catch them!
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