Weekend in summary...

[mrph]

...was fun, but I'm a little bit knackered today.

My sister turned up in Coventry on Friday, which called for some sort of celebration. Inspiration failed to strike, so we settled on meeting colfish , blooddoll3 , pope_ant , mister_jack  and Kyle for beer. It seemed to work. :) 

Saturday involved a mob trip (I'm not going to list names; there were a lot of us!) to see a very special episode of Doctor Who. Well, ok, not quite... but, as noted, Love's Labour's Lost was extremely watchable, and David Tennant was nothing if not charismatic.

The set was fairly simple, based around a huge (and slightly stylised) tree at the back of the stage, which various people hid in (or behind) at various points. Costumes were more or less traditional, although a few of the songs had a more modern lilt to them...

...and there was an owl on a string. I liked the owl. There was also a man in a bear suit, but I think I preferred the owl.

Er, and Joe Dixon, playing Don Adriano De Armado, was definitely channeling Inigo Montoya... :-)

It was good. Not sure what I think of the play itself - I like it, and I do actually like the ending, but it's not a play I know well and I'm still puzzling bits of it out in my head. Hmm.

There was a certain amount of fun with transport arrangements - who was driving where, who was parking where etc. This wasn't helped by the mop fair, or by our usual meeting point being disrupted by the building works... but it all worked out in the end.

I definitely need a better ticket-distribution plan before the trip to see Hamlet, though...

Comments

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

Then again, hopefully the people you will need to distribute tickets to before Hamlet won't be working to Rainbowtime :)

(Actually, being there at the last possible minute was EARLY for me; Rainbowtime usually involves being at least 2 hours' later than stated!!)

Thanks for getting tickets and arranging it all; we thoroughly enjoyed it (even though cathandtheskunk didn't manage to see Mr T despite hanging around the stage door until we got fed up and made her come away with us!)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

No, not Rainbowtime - but I think you were less than five minutes behind Elaine and ulfilias, with others not that far ahead of them; it's not as if you were the only people having some problems... :)

Glad you enjoyed, sorry cathandtheskunk didn't catch Mr T!

(And, as per previous post, let me know if you're interested in the 2009 plan - less Tennant, but 'As You Like It' should hopefully be good anyway!)