We trod the boards looking for the best in British culture and art
If you were to give me a year to live in London, completely on my own and with the freedom to do anything and everything I wanted to, I would come back wishing I had more time. With how quickly these days and weeks have gone by, it’s honestly hard to believe that a month …
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Seeing this production of King Lear was a very unique and fascinating experience that I likely will not have a chance to recreate. Watching a show in a foreign language that I have absolutely zero experience with was confusing at first, but as it went on gave me a deeper appreciation for the play as …
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The inherent concept of a two person musical seemed strange to me when I first walked into the theater to see Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York). After all, usually when you think of musicals, especially romantic comedy musicals such as this one, big dance numbers and charming side characters with their own …
The Victoria and Albert Museum is filled with one of the strangest assortments of artifacts and objects that I have seen in a museum on this trip. While it may not have a collection as big as the British Museum’s or as grandiose a selection as the National Gallery’s exhibitions, its presentation and variety of …
Walking through Hampton Court Palace, I felt as if I was walking through the main attractions of three separate towns at once. From the entrance’s “Ye Olde Township” nature, to the decorum and luxury of the palace’s interior, to the sprawling and beautiful gardens that surrounded it all, it was a strangely all-encompassing site to …
Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a very interesting play. Written by Eugene O’Neill and loosely based on his own life, it follows a day in the life of the Tyrone family, and all the arguments and misfortune that befall them. The play lends itself to a more serious and dramatic tone than the kind …
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Standing next to the high altar of Westminster Abbey, we were listening to our tour guide discuss the history of coronation and the area itself. The time was nearing three o’clock, which I did not notice. What I did notice, however, was a man in a priest’s robes with a red stole, evidently an important …
If you have spent any amount of time in a theatre department, you have likely wondered what it must have been like to experience Shakespearean theatre at the time of its production. Witnessing just how complicated modern productions, even ones of Shakespeare’s plays, can be, with hundreds of cues for lighting and sound, speaker systems …
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Our trip to Bath this week was incredibly memorable, not only as an ancient Roman site that once again set my anthropologist/archaeologist heart aflutter, but as a charming, slightly tourist-trappy town. The site of the Roman baths themselves was incredibly fascinating to walk through. I loved seeing all the different artifacts that have been found …
I think one of the best parts of this trip for me so far has been experiencing London’s market culture, a fascinating blend of different nationalities, products, cultural identities, and of course, food. Yesterday’s trip to Borough Market was particularly food heavy, with stalls lined up on every wall, creating an intricate maze of scents …
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