19th performance of Love's Labour's Lost (my 11th)
Photo from Cast Talk last night
It was nice just driving for about 20 minutes to the theatre this morning after a good nights sleep! As I expected, I had to park the other side of the river but I got to my seat by 12.45pm. I was in H4 so I had a perfect, uninterrupted view apart from when David Tennant walked on stage as at that point, there were loads of people in the central aisle getting to their seats! I did notice though that he spoke to both Dumaine and Longaville before lying down.
DT missed the tree when he threw his hat today but his facial expression received a good laugh!
As David put Costard's rope over his shoulder (to lead him off stage), he knocked his own hat off his head!
The folded arms person unfolded theirs very quickly today!
When David got to the German clock part, he was standing in the middle of the stage so he walked to stage right and jumped off the stage! He'd spotted an empty seat and sat down on it with his feet up on the stage. The other thing that he'd spotted was that the lady sitting in the seat next door was taking notes so with a "let me see" he took her pad and pen and went back on stage with it! He then stood there saying his words and ticking what she'd written! He also put a cross against something and signed it before he threw it back to her! It was amazing that he was so relaxed and confident on stage to do that!
When we went to the first Love's Labour's Lost, one of my friends was upstairs and spotted that some of the cast do a short performance in the foyer. As they come into the theatre, I assumed that they were doing that instead but after what they said at the Cast Talk last week, I realised that they still perform out there too so I stayed out to watch. They gathered in the middle and sang a couple of songs (a couple of them were dressed as horses) before we all followed them into the theatre.
It was a great crowd tonight who seemed to clap in different places (and after different scenes) today.
There was no signing this afternoon. I didn't stay as I couldn't see any barriers out (probably due to it being half term).
I then had a late lunch at my usual spot - I like this life! A;though I'm sad that the Stratford-Upon-Avon run is nearly at an end (as the Courtyard Theatre is a wonderful intimate place to see a play), at least I can console myself wiith the fact that I'm seeing Hamlet in more in London.
DT missed the tree when he threw his hat today but his facial expression received a good laugh!
As David put Costard's rope over his shoulder (to lead him off stage), he knocked his own hat off his head!
The folded arms person unfolded theirs very quickly today!
When David got to the German clock part, he was standing in the middle of the stage so he walked to stage right and jumped off the stage! He'd spotted an empty seat and sat down on it with his feet up on the stage. The other thing that he'd spotted was that the lady sitting in the seat next door was taking notes so with a "let me see" he took her pad and pen and went back on stage with it! He then stood there saying his words and ticking what she'd written! He also put a cross against something and signed it before he threw it back to her! It was amazing that he was so relaxed and confident on stage to do that!
When we went to the first Love's Labour's Lost, one of my friends was upstairs and spotted that some of the cast do a short performance in the foyer. As they come into the theatre, I assumed that they were doing that instead but after what they said at the Cast Talk last week, I realised that they still perform out there too so I stayed out to watch. They gathered in the middle and sang a couple of songs (a couple of them were dressed as horses) before we all followed them into the theatre.
It was a great crowd tonight who seemed to clap in different places (and after different scenes) today.
There was no signing this afternoon. I didn't stay as I couldn't see any barriers out (probably due to it being half term).
I then had a late lunch at my usual spot - I like this life! A;though I'm sad that the Stratford-Upon-Avon run is nearly at an end (as the Courtyard Theatre is a wonderful intimate place to see a play), at least I can console myself wiith the fact that I'm seeing Hamlet in more in London.
Next performance for me: Hamlet tonight! (1st)
