Henry V meets Hollywood
Jan. 8th, 2014 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdreamsSo I had a very nice trip to London again today, this time with the hubby as well as my usual theatre/cinema-buddy Christine as a birthday treat for both of them. We'd got tickets forJude Law in Henry V at the Noel Coward theatre and though I'd been a cheapskate and only bought the £10 tickets so we were up in the Gods, it was a surprisingly good view. The Balcony seats there aren't too bad though I actually think we had the best row aside from the front - Row C meant we could see the stage quite well without the roof getting in the way, while the balcony rails were also not obscuring too much. I had been thinking the front row there would have been good up until the point that a group of women arrived and one of them tripped getting to her seat and managed to tip her handbag over the edge tossing her purse onto the stalls below! Whoo! A close call as the rail where she was was quite low and I could just see her tipping over instead, it's all so steep!
This is a bit of a tip-tilted photo on my crappy camera phone - don't look if you get vertigo! LOL
The cast was pretty good, and I loved the costumes and the lighting in particular was excellent. The set was minimalist but really effective and Jude Law was pretty damn good too, though he wasn't trying to belt out the big declaiming speeches. Where he really excelled was in the final love scene with Katherine, where he just seemed to really relax and enjoy the dialogue, and that was the best version of that scene I can remember ever seeing. I enjoyed that more than the rest put together.
Then after a nice meal at Zizzi's on the Strand, we walked back to Liverpool Street and I got another couple of pics of the fallen Angel buried in the ground by the Bank of England. This one must still be alive as their wing hasn't turned to black smoky powder, right?
And I have no idea why LJ is showing these pics the wrong way round as I rotated them on Photobucket but it's too late and I'm now too fecking irritated to try and reload them. Bah!
This is a bit of a tip-tilted photo on my crappy camera phone - don't look if you get vertigo! LOL
The cast was pretty good, and I loved the costumes and the lighting in particular was excellent. The set was minimalist but really effective and Jude Law was pretty damn good too, though he wasn't trying to belt out the big declaiming speeches. Where he really excelled was in the final love scene with Katherine, where he just seemed to really relax and enjoy the dialogue, and that was the best version of that scene I can remember ever seeing. I enjoyed that more than the rest put together.
Then after a nice meal at Zizzi's on the Strand, we walked back to Liverpool Street and I got another couple of pics of the fallen Angel buried in the ground by the Bank of England. This one must still be alive as their wing hasn't turned to black smoky powder, right?
And I have no idea why LJ is showing these pics the wrong way round as I rotated them on Photobucket but it's too late and I'm now too fecking irritated to try and reload them. Bah!