I’m horribly transparent…

titus andronicus at the globe theatre. it was incredible. it was, by far, the most stimulating bit of theatre since i arrived. the night before that i saw in extremis (at the globe as well). for both I was standing in the yard which is the standing space in front of the stage where the lower classes would watch the productions back in the days of shakespeare. this was shakespeare’s home. his temple. what a phenomenal place for theatre. titus was bloody and gory as always. women with their hands cut off, tongues cut out, people eating pies cooked filled with their dead children. it was great! haha. a girl fainted right next to me and had to be carted out of the theatre. they say that a record 38 people have fainted during the run of titus. unbelievable. theatre truly does alter your “sense of being”.

i spent far too much money on a pair of pants in covent garden. but i loved them, they fit me perfectly, and if you can’t impulsively act on your emotions here in london, then where else?

i think i will go to see the seagull tonight at the national theatre. chekov would be nice tonight. i am seeing so much theatre and it’s making me so happy.

i love this city. i love my life right now… but in a really calm sort of way. i thought i would be literally running all over london 24/7 with 1000 watt smile permanently plastered to my face, not stopping for a moment to catch my breath. i thought my experience would be that intense. but it’s a different kind of intensity. i find myself calmer than i’ve ever been. sometimes quieter than i’ve ever been. i’m this silent sponge.

i visited the tate modern today. it’s the largest enclosure of modern and contemporary art in all of europe. i saw the kandinsky exhibit, just as i promised and it was brilliant. funny though, i liked the tate’s standard collection of abstract expressionists better than the kandinsky exhibit i had to pay for… they have this wonderful room of mark rothko’s work and i just sat on the ground in there for nearly a half hour. it was relaxing.

i’m off to buy hamlet at the bookstore. scenework with natalie for adv shakespeare class. “get thee to a nunnery…” and all that jazz.

—-m