Well I went to the Globe this past Tuesday! I have to say the theater itself was really cool, but I was disappointed later on.
We went to London as a class in my Shakespeare class to see the Globe theater. We all met at the Gloucester Green Bus Station in Oxford and jumped on the Oxford Tube which took us to the Victoria Station in London and then got on the Underground to get to the Globe.
When we first arrived at the Globe we had a short little tour of just pretty much looking at the stage and sitting in 2 different sections. Our guide explained how the plays were viewed back in Shakespeare's time and how people were viewed depending on their various sections that they were in. She also described how the Globe was rebuilt to as close as possible to when Shakespeare was working there. It is also not on the actual site where the original Globe was.
After our tour we all went to Nando's for lunch. It is a chicken place that was actually pretty good. They had a ton of different sauces so Jake and I stocked up and probably brought back about 7-9 bottles of various sauces back to our table. I tried them all including the Extra Extra Hot (which was pretty hot but in the grand scheme of hotness not very hot) and only found one that I liked.
When I was done with lunch I grabbed two different cookies at a restaurant called Eat. and sat out by the Thames and ate them and people watched. After I was done I realized how close St. Paul's cathedral was and I hadn't been able to do what I wanted to do there so I took a walk across a bridge (Actually it was the bridge from the 6th Harry Potter movie that gets destroyed by Death Eaters, if you can remember that scene) and ended up right by St. Paul's. I did not have enough time to go in but I went and saw it and then I walked back to the Globe to go see All's Well That Ends Well.
It was quite the experience seeing a play at the Globe. The ushers were old, paranoid ladies that thought that since we were college students we were going to cause trouble and they had their eyes on us the whole time which was really uncomfortable and annoying. Then the play was a 100% Indian cast the spoke Gujarati! The whole play was in an entirely different language the whole time. They had a quick 3 line synopsis on the screens near the stage but I couldn't read the whole synopsis due to the stage ceiling being in the way and the synopsis did not help at all anyways. Then my seat was right next to a wood pole so I moved and where I moved the two pillars on the stage were in the way! So for about half of the play I did not see any actors and just a stage. Also, the actors would sing sometimes and they had a three piece Indian band on the stage which was cool but it just dragged out the play. Let's just say I was happy to see it end.
After the play I took the girls to Abbey Road, then Paige and Marissa to King's Cross train station to see platform 9 3/4. Then we met up with the rest of the girls at Top Shop and went home.
Wednesay I just did homework. But Thursday was exciting! I will try to tell you about it soon!
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