yay!!
Yesterday, my math paper marked the end of my first year as an undergraduate! And although these haven’t been the best of exam-times, I’m so grateful that it’s over, and there are now so many wonderful things to do other than stay cooped up in room/classroom/library poring over letters and numbers that are still swimming in my head. Such as, watching a musical! which is exactly what a few of us promptly did after the paper. :)The plan was really to watch Mary Poppins, but it’s fully booked for the next few months (!) and making our way through the drizzle and the crowds gathered at Leicester Square for the Star Wars premiere (with live orchestral performance of the fantastic soundtrack!) we finally got to the half price ticket booth and snapped up tickets for Woman in White just half an hour before the show was to start.
[Oh but before it did, the announcer went (something along the lines of) "Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to watch the Woman in White, which is set in Victorian England, during which no video recording equipment, pagers, handphones, and other such technology has yet been invented, so please kindly refrain from the use of these items. Thank you." ok I can't remember how exactly he put it but it was funny. :)]
Anyway, I thought it beautifully tragically moving, and would have wept at the end if my stomach's aching hadn't distracted me, for marian and her fortitude, her love for her sister laura, the tragic ending of unrequited love despite her "righting this wrong"... It had everything, tremendous waves of human emotion swept up by the music, the voices drenched in heart; suspense as the mystery unfolded. It had comic villain, not so comic villain and love triangle involving devoted sisters all thrown in, and a heart-breaking end... And the musical stars playing the ladies had truly amazing voices, each word sung with such intense passion, oh and count fosco was hilarious.. I'm just so glad I watched it.
The set was rather unique, with its high-tech (anti-victorian) computer generated scenic backdrops and constantly shifting screens (although I think from a better and lower vantage point it would have been much better, and the entries and exits less obvious). But it was excellently done and so smooth, the way the characters go through doors in the middle wall and the stage spins round, and especially especially that scene at the very start when anne catherick just disappears into the tunnel and fades away so eerily after meeting walter, truly spine tingling!
Also, the grand Palace Theatre did make me feel a little underdressed, but well, it's hardly like going to victoria or esplanade back home, in London the theatre does seem to be for everyone, and there's no real dress-code to be enforced it seems. A wonderful celebration of end of exams. :)
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And now, I've a million and one things I want to do! But top of the list currently is to clean up my room, which is in the most disgraceful state ever. I think it's even harder to make each day purposeful without a routine of work to follow, so looks like my glorious summer holiday will HAVE to be tempered by much self-chatisement and DISCIPLINE. :P
1 Comments:
i read woman in white as one of my 19th century lit texts!! :) when are you coming back shining??
-peiyong
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