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to Stratford to see David Warner in Henry IV sometime this summer/fall. It's a date!
We can get a babysitter for an evening or a saturday afternoon. Tickets go on sale to the general public (that's me) on the 30th, so i'll be on the phone at 9am to buy them then and there.
I wanna scream and pull my hair out when i think how close Stratford is to Brum, and how many times I've missed a chance to see Patrick Stewart or Sir Ian McKellen in the past year alone...but now David too? The line must be drawn *here*, lol. I ain't going to miss this one.
Chronic illness sucks and keeps/has kept me home a lot these past 7 years, but i WANT to get out and see culture and drama and things. I want the life other healthy normal people have, and I'm going to do my damndest to have it. What's the point in living in this fabulously cultured country full of amazing people with amazing talents, if i never get out and see/experience any of it?
Hence the Invasion, in a week and a half !! *omg* - i'm going to meet PD in less than 10 days. Gulp.
(come on Jen, you made it to Manchester last year for the Crotchwoot premiere with less than 24 hours' notice and back again, you can spend one night in London by yourself and mosey over to Barking the next day, surely.)
And hence Henry IV. Yes.
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We can get a babysitter for an evening or a saturday afternoon. Tickets go on sale to the general public (that's me) on the 30th, so i'll be on the phone at 9am to buy them then and there.
I wanna scream and pull my hair out when i think how close Stratford is to Brum, and how many times I've missed a chance to see Patrick Stewart or Sir Ian McKellen in the past year alone...but now David too? The line must be drawn *here*, lol. I ain't going to miss this one.
Chronic illness sucks and keeps/has kept me home a lot these past 7 years, but i WANT to get out and see culture and drama and things. I want the life other healthy normal people have, and I'm going to do my damndest to have it. What's the point in living in this fabulously cultured country full of amazing people with amazing talents, if i never get out and see/experience any of it?
Hence the Invasion, in a week and a half !! *omg* - i'm going to meet PD in less than 10 days. Gulp.
(come on Jen, you made it to Manchester last year for the Crotchwoot premiere with less than 24 hours' notice and back again, you can spend one night in London by yourself and mosey over to Barking the next day, surely.)
And hence Henry IV. Yes.
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excited
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You lucky thing you :D I bet he's amazing in real life. Which play are you going to see?
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:O You went to the Torchwood premiere? I got tickets but couldn't make it because of college. HAd to give them away and sulk instead.
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I sure did. I managed to get a babysitter and went to a city i'd never been to with less than 24 hours' notice.
Crotchwoot premiere on the big screen at the Odeon in Manc city centre was amazing, yes. Even more amazing was me going, getting there, seeing it, and getting home all by myself. *proud* :)
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Ugh, jealous. I missed out on 20-ft high HD Ianto -pout-
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Hypothyroidism doesnt necessarily make you agoraphobic, but one gets so used to being HOME because one is too tired to do anytihng else, that when one suddenly decides to go to cities alone where one hasnt been before, in the dark, etc, one feels proud of doing it and not chickening out.
That said, there was a definite atmos in the cinema that night, and we ALl giggled when Owen sprayed the man and got kissed and the yelled for a taxi! (i assumed he was running away alone, not taking them both home to rape them!)
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I interpreted the Owen scene as he was going home with both of them, but maybe it was deliberately left open like that. I don't think the writers actually intended it to be seen as a possible rape.
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Honestly - if they want to know how its going to be interpreted, they need to ask some WOMEN before writing and filming it. Duh.
Hee.
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And then my Dad nearly ran him over as he dashed across the road towards the Dirty Duck.
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I know Patrick was there last year, i was in Stratford back just before Christmas, but we had a toddler with us and couldnt stay for any plays :/
Just. Wow.
David hasnt been at Stratford since he did Hamlet in 1965 so its like 42-43 years later for him. And that's the main reason i want to be there, besides it being him and all.
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A very obscure Warner tip for you - he's the voice of the villain in Baldurs Gate II...
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Yes, apparently his Hamlet was very rebellious in the way that his Morgan was. It was all so 1965/1966, wasnt it.
Your mum is one lucky woman, yes.
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Ooh go you on the David Warner-ness! :)
My English-studying housemate conned me into joining the English Society in the first year and we went with them to see Macbeth at Stratford. I'm not much for Shakespeare but it was cool! I'm sure you'll have lots of fun probably in the front row about 6 inches from the stage!
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Well think about it - has America got so much culture over so few square miles, anywhere? No, not even in LA.
Yeah i'm gonna need a drool bucket and front row drooling seats. Yes.
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For me, Part 2 is the better, but I saw a fantastic overall cast last time (Gambon as Falstaff, David Bradley as Henry IV and that chap who was in Spooks as Hal) and they raised the game of what are otherwise pretty dreary bits of theatre. I don't know who else is appearing this time round but you should make a firm decision there.
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Not going for the play, wouldnt care if he was playing in Little Shop of Horrors, even, or that Queen show. Or Spamalot. Going for DAVID. :D