17th performance of Love's Labour's Lost (my 9th)
I got to my seat by 7.05pm in time to see Dumaine and Longaville come out. I don't know if the props people don't know or whether it's part of the act, but they always put both cushions on top of each other so Dumaine moves one to his side of the stage.
It was a good crowd tonight (on the young side although I was sitting with some RSC types - the woman next to me even understood all the Latin!). My seat was C26 (which squeaks so I had to sit very still). It's at the front of the stage so I had a brilliant view!
When DT threw his hat on the tree (it missed) he looked as though he was about to laugh as the audience's reaction was really good so he took a sip of drink to stop himself!
The folded arms person dropped their arms immediately tonight.
I felt really sorry for the guy who plays Dumaine tonight as he forgot the words of the song! He tried to remember and tried that one line about 3 times (once looking in his book / case as though the words were there) but in the end just moved to the line where the other three join in! He received a bigger round of applause than normal afterwards.
Another mistake was that Armado obviously didn't have a key with him as he just touched hands with Moth (the key is quite large). Later, after Moth returned to the stage and the light was on Costard, I saw that she handed a letter to Armado so that he had one to give to Costard! He must have had the Letter already as he then pulled out two!
When Costard did the rapping part, one of his hands were out of the rope so he had to put them back in at the end of the song!
David Tennant stuffed loads of paper into his mouth tonight! That scene is really hilarious but I do wish that Navarre would wait longer before he starts talking as people are still laughing and he has his back to the audience so we can not hear what he says at all.
After the performance DT came to the front of the stage and asked for quiet and said that they were going to do a collection for the Actors fund and, as we probably had never been asked for money before by a guy with an owl on his head, he would get Oliver Ford Davies to explain! He explained that it was a charity to collect money to look after old actors and that a week a year theatres do this collection. David then said that if we like competition, they had raised £3,200.81 after a performance of Hamlet last week and that if we raised £3,200.82 it would make Patrick Stewart really annoyed! He then ran off stage and didn't collect himself so I doubt that helped much as last week he was signing for £5 and collected loads.
Apparently Cameron Mackintosh was in the audience tonight.
I then had my usual drive home but I didn't find it too tough as I was still on quite a high! I got home at 1.00am and to sleep by 1.30am and still bounded out of bed at 6.00am!
It was a good crowd tonight (on the young side although I was sitting with some RSC types - the woman next to me even understood all the Latin!). My seat was C26 (which squeaks so I had to sit very still). It's at the front of the stage so I had a brilliant view!
When DT threw his hat on the tree (it missed) he looked as though he was about to laugh as the audience's reaction was really good so he took a sip of drink to stop himself!
The folded arms person dropped their arms immediately tonight.
I felt really sorry for the guy who plays Dumaine tonight as he forgot the words of the song! He tried to remember and tried that one line about 3 times (once looking in his book / case as though the words were there) but in the end just moved to the line where the other three join in! He received a bigger round of applause than normal afterwards.
Another mistake was that Armado obviously didn't have a key with him as he just touched hands with Moth (the key is quite large). Later, after Moth returned to the stage and the light was on Costard, I saw that she handed a letter to Armado so that he had one to give to Costard! He must have had the Letter already as he then pulled out two!
When Costard did the rapping part, one of his hands were out of the rope so he had to put them back in at the end of the song!
David Tennant stuffed loads of paper into his mouth tonight! That scene is really hilarious but I do wish that Navarre would wait longer before he starts talking as people are still laughing and he has his back to the audience so we can not hear what he says at all.
After the performance DT came to the front of the stage and asked for quiet and said that they were going to do a collection for the Actors fund and, as we probably had never been asked for money before by a guy with an owl on his head, he would get Oliver Ford Davies to explain! He explained that it was a charity to collect money to look after old actors and that a week a year theatres do this collection. David then said that if we like competition, they had raised £3,200.81 after a performance of Hamlet last week and that if we raised £3,200.82 it would make Patrick Stewart really annoyed! He then ran off stage and didn't collect himself so I doubt that helped much as last week he was signing for £5 and collected loads.
Apparently Cameron Mackintosh was in the audience tonight.
I then had my usual drive home but I didn't find it too tough as I was still on quite a high! I got home at 1.00am and to sleep by 1.30am and still bounded out of bed at 6.00am!
Next performance for me: Love's Labour's Lost tomorrow (31st)
