The plays to catch you all up on--> Thursday the 8th: King Henry the Eight at the Shakespeare Globe. Very long and boring play haha. It was awesome being in the Globe, we'll be back there on Friday, but it's a bit torturous out in the heat and on the uncomfortable benches. Than that night we saw Hair! It was such an energetic play. We got to go up on the stage after the performance and just stepping on the stage and we were sweltering with heat. I can't imagine how the actors do it, and that was their second show of the day!! We met the lead actor after in the play, his name is Gavin Creel, he plays Claude in the show. He was wonderful and very inspiring. Friday the 9th: We had a night off!! I went to this club called Fabric with Matt and his friends and the music was so loud I had to wear ear plugs (that gave me a wonderful ear infection). Some of Matt's friends didn't leave till 7 am, but we left around 1:30 am. It was definitely a fun night out.
On Saturday we went to Hamsptead area, Swiss Cottage region, to see Salome the play. Before, Matt and I visited the Sigmund Freud Museum. It was really cool, we even saw his original chair where he would have patients sit on and do the "free association" and all that awesome stuff. He had more books in his house than I could ever imagine. The key to success is definitely all about reading, thanks Freud! Salome, the play, was CRAZY!! The actress was a bit overdramatic and very annoying. Our professor told us that this director doesn't really direct his actors so that could be the reason she didn't have a very dynamic character. However, the star of the show was her father, Herod. He was incredible. He had this raspy voice and got so into it he spit out every word. The whole play was wet- bloody, wine, water, tar. Very cool.
Sunday I hung out with my parents. We saw our relative and had a very traditional English meal. We had to leave early to go visit the V&A (victoria and albert museum). We saw the theater and performance exhibits, the grace kelly exhibit, the jewerly exhibit, and some ancient pieces like a bed that Shakespeare referenced to and Coco Chanel's classic little black dress. Than we trekked over to Harrods. It's AMAZING. I want to go back ASAP. But it was the last day/hour of the sale so it was crowded beyond belief.
Monday night we saw Salome, the Opera. Yes, I'm being exposed to everything around here!! It was interestingggg... Than Matt and I went to this club called the Zoo Bar. It was really fun, they played great music there (unlike Fabric haha).
Well time to go, I will hopefully update soon.
SCOTLAND ON FRIDAY :)
Sorry this has become more of a diary entry. Not enough time to post real poetic lines anymore! Tootles. xoxo
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