Friday, May 17, 2013

Theatre and Pubs

On Wednesday my friend Tori and I went to see theatre!
YAY!
The show was called Beautiful Thing and was at the
Arts Theatre in the West End.
It was the twentieth anniversary of Jonathan Harvey's play that first debuted at the Bush Theatre in London. I had NO IDEA this was a play...but I did know that it was a movie that I watched a couple of months ago so I knew what I was getting into.
Long story short, it's about coming of age, coming out, and love.
It was absolutely charming as they say here in Londontown - incredibly feel good. But also really well done and acted with a very clear message (they played Macklemore's Same Love at the end to drive their message home for us).
Tori and I sacrificed a good view of the show for cheap tickets...we had a sort of restricted view because we were right in the front and there was a platform on the stage so we couldn't always see what was happening upstage. It really didn't matter however, because we both really enjoyed it anyways...and so did the very drunk threesome sitting next to me.
I was very pleased with my first West End theatre experience and I CAN'T WAIT to go see more.

And then yesterday the whole group of us (except for the boys) went on the Camden Town pub crawl.
We were brought around to four different pubs and then ended up at a club called Proud, which our pub tour guide called a blub...cross between bar and club.
It was definitely a good time. We met a lot of interesting people, including one guy from Northeastern which was a CRAZY coincidence.
The club was blasting EDM and apparently the DJ was Calvin Harris...I still don't really know who that is, but I was told he's a big deal. So that's exciting I guess.

(This is a picture of me and Tori at the first pub)

Besides our beloved professor Antonio going back to the states today, I have nothing else to report!
Tonight we go and see The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe...
and that's all for now!

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