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Saturday, October 19, 2002 Stratford As most of you know, I'm a theatre kid (and proud of it!). Last weekend was a long one since we got two days off for a break (thank God!!), so I went to the Stratford Theatre Festival and saw The Scarlet Pimpernel on Sunday and Romeo and Juliet and King Lear on Tuesday--the day we didn't see any shows we spent in Toronto. I don't know what all the commotion about The Scarlet Pimpernel is all about--it wasn't particularly interesting, and it was obvious that the play was the problem, not the production. So that was disappointing. Romeo and Juliet was good, but not amazing--it turned into a comedy, even in the parts like Romeo lamenting to the priest that he doesn't want to live anymore because Juliet is in Venice but he's been exiled, which I didn't appreciate. The high school kids in the audience seemed to really enjoy it, though, and they were a strange audience: lively, but they tended to whisper loudly through the serious parts. I heard a couple of kids commenting that during intermission that they had no idea what was being said (Shakespearean English). However, Lear was absolutely incredible. Wow. One middle-aged woman talking to her friend said, "I don't know what's going on because I don't really catch the language, but it's so intense--I love it!" I had to laugh. Christopher Plumber, who played Lear, was wonderful--I can see why he's won so many acting awards. Overall, it was a great weekend, and I had some amazing conversations with Tait and Ryan, who went with me. This is what life is about. ^ Top | 2:38 AM | | | 
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