Plays, Scripts, Sites and Pictures

Well.

My laptop isn't fixed yet. I do have it back, though. I'm currently working around the problem and hope still to have it fixed before I leave London the final time. It will be much easier to have it fixed here still than start the whole process again back in the US.

Now I've added two more (Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? And Avenue Q) to the thirty-two shows I've seen, and I've got a ticket to one more. That will put the total at thirty-five. The new musical adaptation of Porgy and Bess is my next show, tonight at the Royal National Theatre. Its getting rave reviews.

I'm still trying to find the time and tickets to A Voyage Round My Father,The Mousetrap,Stones in His Pockets, and Summer and Smoke. We'll see if I can get those in.

I've also got tickets to go see the RSC's production of Pericles, and the Berliner Ensemble perform Richard II in Stratford-upon-Avon, I'm very excited about seeing those.

But, aside from theatre- I'm having a great time in London. I've been to the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tower of London, Museum of London, the British Museum (six plus times), the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Highgate Cemetery, the Design Museum, the Royal Observatory (saw the ball drop for the hour!), the Queen's House, the Inns of Court, Eton, Westminster Abbey, the Old Operating Theatre Museum, the Millennium Dome (from a distance), Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace (those from the outside only), and much more. Listing only goes a tiny bit of the way in describing the total impact of everything I've experienced. It can't even scratch the surface of the stuff I've seen, done, and internalized here in London.

But since listing is one way we grok experiences, where do I have left to go? Well, loads of places of course. Specifically, I want to go the Theatre Museum, Sir John Soan's Home, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Maritime Museum, the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, the Hunterium Museum, the Science Museum, the Cutty Sark and loads still undiscovered.

Since there is still more stuff to do, I'm probably going to work more time in London into my schedule for independent travel. There's way too much to do here to ever say that you've seen everything- but I can try :)

What else?

I'm anxious to come home, in a way, as well. And I keep buying postcards to mail to people and never end up writing them. Totally my fault. I will at least bring home blank postcards for people, even if I can't get my act together for that.

Oh yeah, and the Royal Court Theatre has a bookshop with a huge selection of scripts and a special section of scripts that are only 2 pounds. I bought a lot of those. Some of which are very hard to find at home.

I purchased:

Portia Coughlin by Marina Carr
Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonaugh
Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr
On Raftery's Hill by Marina Carr
Scenes from the Back of Beyond by Meredith Oakes (which I saw at the RCT)
Drunk Enough to Say I Love You by Caryl Churchill (which I saw at the RCT)
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (which I can get at home, but not for the equivalent of 2 US dollars, and I have seen this at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville)

Those were all two pounds, except for Portia Coughlin. Amazing! I'm a reading fool now.

I've got some pictures (finally) for those who like pictures:

This is a shot of a class performing a movement workshop at the New Globe Theatre in London.























This is the ball that drops at the top of the Royal observatory in Greenwhich to set the time worldwide.























This is me standing at the Prime Meridian. How cool is that?


















A lovely view of Greenwhich/the Docklands of London.
















The Cutty Sark.

















That's all for now! Stay tuned.

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