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Sorry it has taken awhile to post this second week blog but we have been busy!!!! Rehearsals for How I Learned to Drive which runs at the NewWimbledon Studio Oct 15-18 are going extremely well. We are having fun and students are working very hard! Well here are a number of pictures of our second week adventures. Enjoy!
Shakespeare Week:
This was our week dealing with Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. On Monday evening we went to see the stage adaptation of the Tom Stoppard film, Shakespeare in Love. Unfortunately, to prepare for it we were not able to get copies of the play. They became available a week after we saw the show. So we read the screenplay and were able to make some interesting comparisons. We had mixed reviews after seeing the performance. Some students loved it, others thought it was just okay, and some disliked it a lot! Needless to say, it make for an interesting discussion in the Page to Stage class!!!!
The set which moved back and forth. Really interesting.
The Globe Theatre:
We went to the Globe to see Comedy of Errors. For a 7:30 pm performance we lined up at 5:45 to be first in line so we could rush the stage so we could lean on it for the performance. We were groundlings and stood for the whole production! It was awesome! Very funny with a great cast!
The Gate that leads to the yard. Within the gate are all the animals and creatures that are mentioned in Shakespeare's plays.
Across the Thames River is St. Paul's Cathedral.
The Shard...
The Stage:
The fish were used for a lot of slapstick!
Our annual photo in front of the stage!
Two of the leads were kind enough to speak to the students, sign autographs, and take a photo!
Trip to Canterbury:
Students took a tour of the city of Canterbury and around the outside of the Cathedral. Then we paid to go into this magnificent Cathedral, which by the way, is one of my favorite places in the world! Lots of history that I was introduced to by my Chaucer professor, Dr. Rodney Delasanta, and History prof, Dr. Richard Grace. It was the Cathedral that King Henry II's knights murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Beckett, a long time friend of the King. Fascinating story. There is a film entitled, Beckett starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole based on a playof the same title. T.S. Eliot's play, Murder in the Cathedral is also about this assassination. After Beckett's death, the Cathedral became a pilgrimage site. This is where Chaucer's pilgrims were headed in The Canterbury Tales. I had to read the entire works of Chaucer with Dr. Delasanta in Middle English. It was like learning a new language but fascinating. I was invested....
The Gate entrance to the Cathedral.
Familiar Tutor symbols that we also found in Kings Chapel in Cambridge if you remember!
Gorgeous vaulted ceiling.
There is a door where the white cross is with a pulley system.
This was the site of the Shrine to Beckett before it was destroyed.
Canterbury has some of the most beautiful stained-glass. This is the Tree of Jesse.
The Cloisters.
Our tour guide! She was excellent!
The chair used to punish women by dunking them in the river.
Notice how each of the upper floors gets wider than the floor below. The reason for this is people pay taxes on the square footage on the ground floor. So the make the upper floors bigger.
My favorite house in Canterbury.
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