London Theatre

I am taking a course called Modern Theatre, it's really great and this week we went to see Mrs. Affleck at the National Theatre, which has three stages, and ours was the smallest room, The Cottesloe. Mrs. Affleck is an adaptation of an Ibsen play called Little Eyolf, which was taken from Norway 1890's and put into England 1950's. The play was about a dissatisfied woman who wants her husband to in some way commit to her and her alone, but the problematic relationship they have with their son gets in the way. The son then dies, and the play takes an odd turn, but the actress playing Mrs. Affleck was wonderful, she was like Audrey Hepburn with a spine.

on Tuesday I went to see King Lear at the Young Vic Theatre- it was a modernized production, but the original Shakespeare text. Pete Postlethwaite from Romeo + Juliet annnd Jurassic Park. He spent the last two acts in a sundress holding a pink parasol, looking down at himself as he said, "I have been greatly abused." The end was very moving though.

I have also gone to the Old Vic to see Committed with Richard Dreyfuss, which was not great. The set up was cool- the stage floor was made into tens of tv screens, and the moral of the play was interesting, although sort of ambivalent in the end, but the actors were not really all that convincing, I never forgot I was watching a play.

Tomorrow I'm going to see the Taming of the Shrew at the Novello Theatre- it's the Royal Shakespeare Company, so I'm excited to see it.

Night, Chelsea