What a week it has been. The big 27 has finally been reached so I am in the late twenties now. I am going to argue that it is the late mid twenties until I am 29 years and 364 days old though.
Went to see 'After the Dance' by Terrence Rattigan at the National which was really good. It was about the post WW1 generation (The Bright Young Things) and how they deal with the realities of 1939. The jaded main character becomes idealistic for awhile before being crushed and returning to his destructive ways at the end. I wondered if Rattigan was writing a character piece or if the characters has allegorical / metaphorical significance. When I thought of the metaphorical significance, it made the power of the characterization weaker so I'm just going to look at it as a character piece.
On the Thursday after my birthday, went to see 'The Lion King' musical which was great fun and had a wonderful use of costumes and puppetry. Really want to go and see Warhorse now.
On Saturday we went to go and 'Comedy of Errors' at The Regents Park Open Air theatre which were exchange tickets for last year when we watched actors in the rain before they called it off. It is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays and was a great comedy all about mixed identities. The use of verse was excellent and the empirical North African setting was sublime. It was basically a Casablanca / Indian Raj rip-off in its staging and the company used songs from the periods + musical numbers which really engaged the audience. It was a fantastic example of contextualizing the text and making it fun and accessible-something Shakespeare would have wanted.
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