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The beauty of being a budget groundling is that you can happily walk away at the interval, should the production not be to your liking. In twelve seasons spent at The Globe, we've walked out only the once (and that was because of my knackered knee.)
It took a tossing of a coin to make our mind up on Saturday night. The Specials were once again calling from down the road at The Academy. With tickets being touted for around £100, the credit crunching sums of twenty Shakespeare productions equating to one night of moonstomping with The Specials influenced our decision.
A wise call.
The production of Romeo and Juliet was slightly more sombre than what The Specials were getting up to back in SW2, not at all playing upon the potential for comedy (R & J, not The Specials.). We saw a Brazilian production of R & J at The Globe some ten years ago that played out almost as Carry on Verona. Not so on Saturday night, with the complexities of love being at the centre of the narrative.
This was a highly technical production, both in terms of the sword fighting choreography (and masturbation potential - eek,) as well as the action transferring frequently down to the groundling level around us. The fragrant mrs onionbagblogger's bicycle helmet almost saw off our young romantic hero. Romeo must die, etc, but failing that, then tripping over a cycling accessory will have to do. Whoops, but at least mrs obb ventured out with her helmet.
And so three hours later, and a resurrected R & J took three stage bows as Bankside celebrated a fine performance. I was applauding both the performers on stage, as well our own endurance in surviving a chilly evening spent on our feet for three hours.
That's possibly it for our Globe outings for this season. We have been regulars in previous seasons, catching all performances in the schedule.
'Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale.'
That might be the case for mrs obb, but my knackered knee can't take too much of this standing around. Likewise my wallet can't take anything higher than a £5 groundling ticket.
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| Sunday 17 May, 2009 |
The beauty of being a budget groundling is that you can happily walk away at the interval, should the production not be to your liking. In twelve seasons spent at The Globe, we've walked out only the once (and that was because of my knackered knee.)
It took a tossing of a coin to make our mind up on Saturday night. The Specials were once again calling from down the road at The Academy. With tickets being touted for around £100, the credit crunching sums of twenty Shakespeare productions equating to one night of moonstomping with The Specials influenced our decision.
A wise call.
The production of Romeo and Juliet was slightly more sombre than what The Specials were getting up to back in SW2, not at all playing upon the potential for comedy (R & J, not The Specials.). We saw a Brazilian production of R & J at The Globe some ten years ago that played out almost as Carry on Verona. Not so on Saturday night, with the complexities of love being at the centre of the narrative.
This was a highly technical production, both in terms of the sword fighting choreography (and masturbation potential - eek,) as well as the action transferring frequently down to the groundling level around us. The fragrant mrs onionbagblogger's bicycle helmet almost saw off our young romantic hero. Romeo must die, etc, but failing that, then tripping over a cycling accessory will have to do. Whoops, but at least mrs obb ventured out with her helmet.
And so three hours later, and a resurrected R & J took three stage bows as Bankside celebrated a fine performance. I was applauding both the performers on stage, as well our own endurance in surviving a chilly evening spent on our feet for three hours.
That's possibly it for our Globe outings for this season. We have been regulars in previous seasons, catching all performances in the schedule.
'Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale.'
That might be the case for mrs obb, but my knackered knee can't take too much of this standing around. Likewise my wallet can't take anything higher than a £5 groundling ticket.
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