This week began, were I left off in the last blog, with the hopes of seeing shows and living London life to the fullest. The adventures began last Sunday night with the first of my three Thanksgivings. This one was hosted by IES and featured 4 or 5 turkeys and a mish-mash of other Thanksgiving food. It was fun but not particularly festive, it involved paper plates and grabbing as much food as possible before running to our respective lounges. But there was turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing so it was not a total loss.
Then on Monday, Charlotte and I went on an epic play adventure. We had planned to go see An Ideal Husband we were going to show up before the show and buy cheap student tickets. But as we all know, things often don't work out according to plan. So of course all the cheap tickets were gone but we had about a hour before shows started and were in a very theatre-full area so we decided to wander and see what other shows we could find. We then stumbled upon A Woman in Black a show some other members of our program had seen and liked, but it was supposed to be scary. For 20 pound second row seats we decided to risk it and I am so glad we did. So scary, at moments I thought Charlotte was literally going to squeeze my hand off but I am so glad we went. Scary theatre is something I had no experience with before I got here and I think I like it. It is much more effective than movies because it is real.
Ooh on Tuesday I went to the Imperial War Museum, which is not really my thing, its a little too depressing but it was definitely a interesting presentation of social history. We went for my Women in London class and we had to find the women in the world war one display.
Then on Weds I saw another piece of somewhat scary or least dark, theatre. I am a intern at the New Diorama Theatre and their piece that week was Schiller's Robbers. It was bizarre and I feel like I probably missed something without truly knowing the history or social context behind it but it was well acted and the staging really innovative. It was in the black box with white chalk drawings on the walls, everything felt symbolic.
Then on Thursday my friends and I had a giant Thanksgiving potluck. Basically first Thanksgiving way from home was a success. Rachel made a turkey and everyone brought some sort of food. I have never been that full in my entire life but it was so delicious.
Friday is mildly irrelevant to the theme of this post but there was shopping and adventuring to be had.
Saturday is Thanksgiving and play number three. For Thanksgiving I went to Neal and Lisa's house (my second cousins) I am basically in love with their children and love any excuse to hold a baby and get feed a home cooked meal. And then Saturday night Emily and I went to see A Glass Menagerie which was basically amazing, the staging was really interesting and it sort of proved to me that revivals can be successful (the show is not dated).
And on Sunday Emily and I continued our weekend of adventure with my second museum of the week, the V & A which honestly is sort of a strange museum, I didn't really understand the correlation between all the exhibits but it has a amazing theatre exhibit, awesome jewelry exhibits and a gallery devoted to Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter's drawings so I would call that a success in my book. And that day ended with the discovery of an amazing little crepe place hidden behind the tube station, all in all my first Thanksgiving weekend away from home, though at times difficult was a success.
And this weekend will be (weather premiting) our last grand adventure - Rome!
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