Pantos and Pianos
Thursday's marathon revising, typing, and hating writing session ended with a longer-than-necesary and typically rainy trip to the uni, but managed to end on a very happy note.
As Luther-in-Nottingham tradition dictates, the group purchased tickets for a traditional English theatre performance, the Pantomime. The idea is simple- comedy on the edge of innappropriate that keeps kids entertained and parents feeling dirty about having kids with them in the audience.
The show we attended was Cinderella, a haphasard combination of drag, cheesy music (ie: crazy little thing called love, go the distance from hercules, scissor sisters' i don't feel like dancing)... It's impossible to explain except to say that, without proper preparation, it would be easy to dismiss it as uncomfortablly campy.
The ugly stepsisters were played by two men in drag, who wore the most amazingly ornate shimmering, revealing, and innappropriate dresses and wigs. They are made up to be horrifically overdone, and their digging insults and topical humor made them the best part of the show....
Audience participation is the name of the game: booing, hissing, cheering, screaming insults, giving answers to rhetorical questions, etc... we were surrounded by brownies, secondary school kids, and a cavalcade of 6 year olds celebrating their birthdays...
Truly a cultural experience that can never be replicated in the States...
Afterwards, Ryan, Mary, and I joined Anna and Sonja Chi (visiting Lutherite) at Pitcher and Piano. In hopes of impressing our out-of-town guests, Pitcher has become the Place To Go. Be it parents or friends, Pitcher has an aura that makes Roscoes look like....dang, i can't think of anything trashier than 'scoes.....
Aside from drink prices that hover around 10 US dollars, the place was entertaining as always... especially our metro dancing friend in the corner....
A late night concluded with RENT in the library.... a late night that was only rectified by waking up at noon today..... first time sleeping in all week..
The only thing looming ahead is this Paidiea presentation on Wednesday, and the return of our field notebooks in Geology class......aka, good nights ahead this weekend....
Mac and Cheese awaits upstairs (thanks Mom and Dad Haugland, the Becker clan)....
a very American way to end another classy British week.
posted by Kevin @ 4:56 PM
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