Summer Holiday Part One - Culture.
Aug. 8th, 2013 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So we're back briefly from our 4 days of Culture in London. We stayed with a niece who has a place in East Croydon - only 15 minutes from London Bridge and it was perfect for zipping in and out. They've both lived/studied in London for some years and her fiance Niro knows the transport system inside out. I'm a bit rusty on anything outside of the core section of the Underground plus they've built so much since I haunted the area in the late 70's & 80's.
This time we did a Prom, The Globe and a West End Play, plus parts of Greenwich and a couple of floors of the National Portrait Gallery. It was a first time for London plays and concerts for Ellie. She enjoyed them all, but absolutely adored Midsummer's Night Dream ( which was hilarious and IMO perfect) and it's not often that my cunning plans work, but this time I hit a winner. She was quoting it all the way home. I really wanted to get her into Shakespeare before the GCSE starts in earnest September.
So we're back home now for two days to grab the beach/surf stuff and we're off to Cornwall for a week.
This time we did a Prom, The Globe and a West End Play, plus parts of Greenwich and a couple of floors of the National Portrait Gallery. It was a first time for London plays and concerts for Ellie. She enjoyed them all, but absolutely adored Midsummer's Night Dream ( which was hilarious and IMO perfect) and it's not often that my cunning plans work, but this time I hit a winner. She was quoting it all the way home. I really wanted to get her into Shakespeare before the GCSE starts in earnest September.
So we're back home now for two days to grab the beach/surf stuff and we're off to Cornwall for a week.
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Date: 2013-08-10 12:48 pm (UTC)What did you see in the West End?
Glad to hear that you had fun! And Cornwall at this time of year... colour me very jealous.
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Date: 2013-08-17 01:37 pm (UTC)We saw Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Innishmaan at the Noel Coward. It was good - very black humour but bitter sweet. I was a little surprised how natural Dan was in the role, you certainly didn't sit thinking "oh look there's Harry with a bad limp".
The Globe production was very heavy on the comedy and it sucked her in really well. She still is quoting "Pyramis and Thisbe " I hope they release a DVD later of that particular production. I may try and get her to something else before Coriolanus in January however, as that's not going to be shits and giggles unless it's very very bad.
I saw that David Walliams is doing Midsummer - I bet it is good.