Straford

[Nina Patrokov]

I am sad to report that I will be M.I.A. for 2 whole days, because I will be going to the Straford Theatre Festival with a few of my friends and some teachers. And I will have no way of checking Emails, MSN and most importantly HNZ

Sorry about the whole task thing, but if any creatures comment in my thing later than 5:00 in the morning(for me...I forgot what Time Zone I am in though ) I will not be able to reply until later Saturday morning because I will need some crazy sleep..

You know how it is 5 friends and Shakespeare crazy things happen

 

[Estrella Drage]

I'm supposing you mean Stratford? Well, have tons of fun.

 

[Nicolas King]

Indeed she does mean Stratford
Stratford Ontario -- best Shakespearean Theatre in North America

Have a good time, Nina

 

[Isabella Ormonde]

You mean she didn't mean Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare is originally from? ;-)

Have a wonderful time Nina, we'll see you when you get back.

 

[Nina Patrokov]

Ooops typo

I meant in Ontario, too expensive to go to England for two days

Thanks I had a great time

 

[Nicolas King]

I would think it very cost efficient to fly to England, stay two days/one night, fly back.

 

[Nina Patrokov]

Well, it probably would have been a much better representation in Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet than what I saw, they were making cheap jokes and kind of were insulting Shakespeares origanal script and it made me sad. ( But The Music Man was really good so yaye

 

[Nicolas King]

Ya, apparently the Romeo and Juliet this year at Stratford wasn't as good as it had been in previous years, but the Hamlet is uber critically acclaimed. Like people who have said that they've seen enough Hamlets, after watching that say that was the one worth watching and that "NOW [they've] seen enough Hamlets".

 

[Nina Patrokov]

They must've seen it with different actors/actresses but wow it wasn't good!
Juliet wasn't all that good, I'm not saying I can do any better but yeah if it is going to be your Rom & Jul debut best make it good, and the actress has an amazing background so I don't understand why it was as bad as it was. They were making sexual jokes through the whole thing, don't get me wrong I enjoyed a few of them but throughout almost the entire play it was cheap laughs.

Wow I am a little critical aren't I? :$

 

[Nicolas King]

Shakespeare was about cheap laughs a lot of the time. He aimed to get butts in seats or feat on the floor (the penny seats), and when you're trying to fill the floor you need to make the uneducated laugh and you do that through sex jokes. Everybody understands sex jokes.
He was awesome, but he was a writer. Writers wrote for the masses.

 

[Nina Patrokov]

Oh I know, I read almost all of his playwrites and there were a lot, but they changed it up, possibly because it was for a lot of school children, it made me quite upset. The actor that played Tybalt was good actually he was the best aside from the Friar.