Sunday August 19, 2007

Sunday morning we decided to sleep in a little later and get caught up on our sleep. When we did get up, we finished painting our bedroom and had some paint left over, so started on the living room. Once we finished with that, we decided we would head into a different area of town which seemed to specialize in electronics and furniture.

We were able to find a lot of things that we were looking for, some necessary (cookware) and some more for fun (Tami got some scrapbooking stuff to keep up with our adventures in London.) We think we found a futon that we like that's cheap, but comfortable, so will probably go back later this week to get it.

We eventually made our way over to the Globe Theatre by way of tube and lots of walking, so we were getting pretty tired. We had tickets to see Othello at the Globe at 6:30 and had some time to kill, so we went to the pub at the Theatre and had beer (for me) and wine (for Tami) as well as a Ploughman's platter. The platter was good and had tons of food. Lots of cheese, an apple, a tomato, celery, apple chutney and lots of really soft bread. It was a perfect light supper.

If you don't know, the Globe Theatre is a replica of the original Globe theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were originally performed.


The outside of the theatre


banner advertising Othello

One of the interesting things about the Globe Theatre is that it is an open theatre. Also, they sell standing room tickets in front of the stage, so if it starts raining, you better have a poncho or you're going to get wet. When we bought tickets, we weren't sure how comfortable standing would be, so we sprung for some of the seats. Boy was I glad we did, after all of the walking we did, our feet wouldn't have been able to stand it. Also, it did in fact rain during the performance, so I'm sure we would have been miserable.


The inside of the theatre

The show was very good, although we had no idea how long it was going to be. It was around 10:30 before we left for home (4 hours long). It was the last night of the play, so the director came out and thanked all of the cast and crew. The guy who played Othello (Eamonn Walker) was great, Tami actually recognized him from ER. He played one of the doctors during the Africa plot line, he was in several episodes. He also was in 44 episodes of Oz playing Kareem Said.


The cast taking their bows


more of the cast on the balcony

After that, we jumped on the tube and headed back to our flat. The dogs were very glad to see us.