London - October 2015
Oct. 4th, 2015 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nia_kantorkaYes, I'm in London again. Yesterday I arrived at my friend's place in Bow and we had a great dinner in a pub around the corner. The crowds were a bit sad - England lost against Australia in the Rugby World Cup.
Today I've slept in (heaven!) and visited Tate Modern. Wanted to do that since I used the building and one of its exhibitions in a fic of mine and had some trouble to get the knack of the buildings interior design - there's only so much floor plans can do. Now, I know. LOL
I loved some of the shown art, as modern art is just my cup of tea. Yet, I was suprised that I loved the video installtions the most. All of them were very intruiging and meditative (not kidding).
Tomorrow I'm going to visit the British Museum and am looking forward to seeing the Rosetta Stone for real.
In the evening my friend and I are going to see Hamlet. I've heard good and bad about the performance, the stage, and the production. So far I can only say that everything seems to be perfectly organised and the Barbican's Box Office staff is so very helpful in corresponding emails. And that I love the production's posters - look at my shiny new icon and that lovely little Hamlet. So, yes, very curious how that goes.
There won't be any pictures from this London trip from me. I'm the worst person ever at taking pics - today I forgot my camera in my suitcase. Tomorrow it'll be there again. If you want to see a stage door picture, google it or browse tumblr - thousands of people have been there and done that. If someone's interested, I could write about my opinion on the play and performance - though a lot of people have written about the play, probably more eloquent than I ever could.
Have a good start into the new week!
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Today I've slept in (heaven!) and visited Tate Modern. Wanted to do that since I used the building and one of its exhibitions in a fic of mine and had some trouble to get the knack of the buildings interior design - there's only so much floor plans can do. Now, I know. LOL
I loved some of the shown art, as modern art is just my cup of tea. Yet, I was suprised that I loved the video installtions the most. All of them were very intruiging and meditative (not kidding).
Tomorrow I'm going to visit the British Museum and am looking forward to seeing the Rosetta Stone for real.
In the evening my friend and I are going to see Hamlet. I've heard good and bad about the performance, the stage, and the production. So far I can only say that everything seems to be perfectly organised and the Barbican's Box Office staff is so very helpful in corresponding emails. And that I love the production's posters - look at my shiny new icon and that lovely little Hamlet. So, yes, very curious how that goes.
There won't be any pictures from this London trip from me. I'm the worst person ever at taking pics - today I forgot my camera in my suitcase. Tomorrow it'll be there again. If you want to see a stage door picture, google it or browse tumblr - thousands of people have been there and done that. If someone's interested, I could write about my opinion on the play and performance - though a lot of people have written about the play, probably more eloquent than I ever could.
Have a good start into the new week!
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Date: 2015-10-06 09:08 am (UTC)I saw your London post and was too busy to comment at that time. Will try to come back to it.
I really enjoyed the play. It was quite impressive, but I have to admit that I'm not that much of a theatre-goer than you are. Well, I do plan to see Hamlet in the theatre again in spring - this time in German only a 15 minutes drive away. I'm too curious to see the same play in a different language, performed by a company I know nothing about. :D
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Date: 2015-10-06 01:27 pm (UTC)Seeing it again in German will be really interesting I think, it will change so much in meaning and rhythm alone? I've never seen it done in Dutch, I'd like to though.
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Date: 2015-10-06 02:04 pm (UTC)Yes, it's going to be very interesting. As there are a few different manuscripts of Hamlet and each production does different things with cutting out parts because directors rarely do a four hours play, there are also different translations. I seriously hope they'll use the newer one. I read the first hundert pages in the old version and bought the new one because I found it so convoluted and stiff with that ancient language. The new version might be 'modern' but it's vivid and alive and therefore a lot better. And I'm sure lots of people disagree with me and see it just the other way around. LOL
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Date: 2015-10-06 06:32 pm (UTC)And I think there are very valid reasons to update a play, language doesn't remain the same, and neither do audiences, as long as the spirit of the story is still there I think it makes perfect sense :)