As we recover from jet lag and settle into our British lives, we made our way to our second show; a modern take on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The set was designed to resemble a very modern, clean, and empty house. This led to a lot of blocking taking place on the carpeted floor. I …
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A Doll’s House? Why isn’t There a Doll?
A modern version of a Doll’s House by Henrique Ibsen. I don’t have a lot of experience with the original, so you could say this was my first full experience with it. It was very interesting. It was definitely for a certain audience. After intermission, an elderly couple got up and left. I thought that …
Wife or Caged Bird? TBD
The creativity and depth of A Dolls House is one to not make assumptions about. The director and designer of this play that was put on by Almeida Theatre, was deep and required the viewers to look deeper than the surface of someone’s personality and life. Nora, the main character in this play, is portrayed …
I MET DAISY RIDLEY (NOT CLICKBAIT)
We went and saw A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, at Almedia Theatre! This is the first “version” of A Doll’s House I’ve seen and am not super familiar with the play itself, so I was going in completely open to the ideas of the director. One of the …
Looking for a Man in Finance . . . Or Is She?
So . . . not quite what I expected. Club music, a reference to the ongoing Iran conflict, and WhatsApp. I think it’s safe to say even Ibsen, progressive as he was, would not have predicted this sort of interpretation. The costumery well conveyed the strictures of the status quo for Nora, but also the rest of the characters. From the start, several characters were monochrome—gray here, beige there, maybe a brown. Initially, each …
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The Tower!
The Tower! What a dream come true! An absolute surreal experience. On our first full day in London, we eagerly arrived at the Tower (a seven minute walk from our apartment – btw!), took a group photo, then straight to get in line for the Crown Jewels – probably my most favorite part of the …
Blog post 2: Tower of London
I loved getting to visit the Tower of London because everything felt so surreal to me. I’ve never experienced a place or history like this before, so to see this stuff in real life was extremely beneficial. My favorite parts were definitely the Crown Jewels and the prisons. These are vastly different, but they were …
Blog 2: Tower of London
The Tower of London was extremely fascinating. This is my second time going to The Tower of London, and I noticed a lot more than I did before. A fact that struck me the most is that the last beheading was in 1941. I pictured the last beheading to be around the 1600s or 1700s, …
The Tower of Beasts, Beauty, and Betrayal
The treacherous journey to London left us all in need of an adventure. This lead us to the Tower of London. The famous monument of British artifacts, culture, and beautiful architecture. Despite the pull of the jet lag, the Tower of London certainly did not disappoint. The royal family famously had their band of Royal …
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Meeting the past and the present in London!
What I’ve known to always be true about London, since I first set foot in it, is that it doesn’t try to impress. It doesn’t need to–it holds your attention by merely existing. Time does not wither its beauty but indeed enriches it, and I found that firsthand in the Tower of London this time …
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Theatre in London U of A 