Week 12
July 19 -24
We did not have a good time working on this show, so rather than using this journal as a platform for my frustration I will just remind you that we were in at least three hours of rehearsal every Monday - Thursday.
The next weekend, 23rd - 24th, we went to Stratford-upon-Avon. FRIDAY we went with the UCN group. Luckily we only had to see them for the travel portion of the day, so we went off to meet Joe and Irene, Logan’s friends from BYU-Hawaii. We tracked them down at the town’s only cheese shop.
The cute story behind this job goes as follows: Irene finds work at cheese shop, Irene comes home smelling like cheese - stinky cheese, Joe buys her perfume so as to gently try to protect his nose, Irene still smells like work, Joe gets part-time job at cheese shop, Joe and Irene live stinkily ever after.
Joe took us on an insider’s tour of the town since he has been living there to complete his masters at the Shakespeare Institute. After making plans to meet Joe the next day, we visited Trinity Church and had to wait for a wedding to finish so that Laura could pay her respects to The Bard. We read D.H. Lawrence poetry which I had acquired early that day, played the ABC game and 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. We then ate quickly and hurried to our shows.
The group languished through Romeo and Juliet while I thoroughly enjoyed myself seeing House of Desire. It is a Spanish Golden Age comedy about love and mistaken identity.
We returned home with the group only to return the next morning with Lynda (the crazy director), Gail and Susan. We met up with Joe and finished the tour of town. He showed us the Shakespeare Institute and the Dirty Duck pub where the actor’s always meet after the show.
That night we saw Dog in the Manger, which I had already seen, but not like this. The RSC calls these shows “Girls on Top” referring to the fact that the men were on the lower level and the women were seated on the upper tier to separate them as they would have been during the Spanish Golden Age. It was outrageous. The audience responded a lot and it brought a whole new energy to the show. Another interesting thing in the audience was the actor who plays Romeo. At the end of the show Laura and I hurried to meet up with Logan, so we took the staircase behind us. We soon realized that it must have had a sign telling us not to use it since two actors started coming up as we were going down. We (remember Logan is not in this we) walked past them and made sounds of apology as we hurried on. They just laughed and made some comment about the strange choice of exit. We went with the group to the Dirty Duck and witnessed several of the actors carousing. We left relatively early to that Lynda could drive home safely and she did, for the most part. We almost caused an accident because of her indecisiveness, but we got home in one piece.
We did not have a good time working on this show, so rather than using this journal as a platform for my frustration I will just remind you that we were in at least three hours of rehearsal every Monday - Thursday.
The next weekend, 23rd - 24th, we went to Stratford-upon-Avon. FRIDAY we went with the UCN group. Luckily we only had to see them for the travel portion of the day, so we went off to meet Joe and Irene, Logan’s friends from BYU-Hawaii. We tracked them down at the town’s only cheese shop.
The cute story behind this job goes as follows: Irene finds work at cheese shop, Irene comes home smelling like cheese - stinky cheese, Joe buys her perfume so as to gently try to protect his nose, Irene still smells like work, Joe gets part-time job at cheese shop, Joe and Irene live stinkily ever after.
Joe took us on an insider’s tour of the town since he has been living there to complete his masters at the Shakespeare Institute. After making plans to meet Joe the next day, we visited Trinity Church and had to wait for a wedding to finish so that Laura could pay her respects to The Bard. We read D.H. Lawrence poetry which I had acquired early that day, played the ABC game and 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. We then ate quickly and hurried to our shows.
The group languished through Romeo and Juliet while I thoroughly enjoyed myself seeing House of Desire. It is a Spanish Golden Age comedy about love and mistaken identity.
We returned home with the group only to return the next morning with Lynda (the crazy director), Gail and Susan. We met up with Joe and finished the tour of town. He showed us the Shakespeare Institute and the Dirty Duck pub where the actor’s always meet after the show.
That night we saw Dog in the Manger, which I had already seen, but not like this. The RSC calls these shows “Girls on Top” referring to the fact that the men were on the lower level and the women were seated on the upper tier to separate them as they would have been during the Spanish Golden Age. It was outrageous. The audience responded a lot and it brought a whole new energy to the show. Another interesting thing in the audience was the actor who plays Romeo. At the end of the show Laura and I hurried to meet up with Logan, so we took the staircase behind us. We soon realized that it must have had a sign telling us not to use it since two actors started coming up as we were going down. We (remember Logan is not in this we) walked past them and made sounds of apology as we hurried on. They just laughed and made some comment about the strange choice of exit. We went with the group to the Dirty Duck and witnessed several of the actors carousing. We left relatively early to that Lynda could drive home safely and she did, for the most part. We almost caused an accident because of her indecisiveness, but we got home in one piece.
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