Theatre - Shakespeare In Love

This was an exciting pre-birthday adventure.  A few years ago Mum had given me theatre vouchers for my birthday and I had been quite particular about what sort of outing I spend them on.  This seemed to fit the criteria so the weekend before my birthday John and I headed to London and we invited Lizzie to go with us.

Shakespeare In Love has long been in my top 5 films and at the moment I would probably put it in the number one position.  I had heard they were making a play of it and I was in two minds about it.  Then I read a review in the week which said that the story had found it's natural home and it had four stars and said people would like it and if you liked the film then you would love it.  So that clinched it for me.

It was a fill that I remember watching when I was home sick from school and loving it all and crying so much (in a good way) at the end.   I loved that it was funny ('she has a cottage'), dramatic in a drama theatrical sense, a love story and it was the first thing I remember that made me think that Shakespeare wasn't all bad!

We went up to London for the matinee and sat in the stalls feeling very close to the action.  It was a great play with lots of lines direct from the film which I liked.  Though oddly, I didn't laugh out loud at those, I guess because I new they were coming, but there was the odd new line that I laughed at.  The staging was cool as it moved so you were either front of stage or back stage and I was very excited about being in the audience for the final production.  I was hoping that Queen Elizabeth would appear in our audience though.

Definitely a fun theatre time!