Greenwich: August 6
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skylark913August 6
Today we had a tour of the National Theater. It's really cool how they're sponsered by the government so they have money for all the sweet sets and can hire their own people to work on site. It's cool how it allows those artists to actually have...jobs.
They do this thing with the stages that allows them to have 3 shows running because the can just push the sets around. It's called a repetoir system. We got to see some of the props the've used in past plays. We saw one of the horse puppets that was goign ot be used in _Warhorse_. I'm really sad the show starts after we leave, but I do want to read the book. I liked the smallest theater we saw because everything in it moves, even the seats. That means you can configure the stage however you want.
Heather then gave us an hour to get back to Woolwich and eat eat lunch. She told us to just take the train. But that would take us out of our zone and we would have pay to get to class. So we took the bus and it took us at least an hour and half. I think she was mad, but it was kind of ridiculous to expect us to make it back that fast or pay to get there.
Workshop we studied Brecht and really controversial plays. Then we had to script our own short play based on a newspaper article. We did ours on maternity and paternity leaves and equal rights. I was...interesting.
We went for Indian food last night and it was amazing. We walked to Blackheath. Totally warth it. After food we cut back through the park as it was closing. It was drizzling a bit but that made it really cool when we spotted the green Prime Meridian laser. It looks like it was sparkling everytime a rain drop crossed. We could see it going all the way into the city.
Today we had a tour of the National Theater. It's really cool how they're sponsered by the government so they have money for all the sweet sets and can hire their own people to work on site. It's cool how it allows those artists to actually have...jobs.
They do this thing with the stages that allows them to have 3 shows running because the can just push the sets around. It's called a repetoir system. We got to see some of the props the've used in past plays. We saw one of the horse puppets that was goign ot be used in _Warhorse_. I'm really sad the show starts after we leave, but I do want to read the book. I liked the smallest theater we saw because everything in it moves, even the seats. That means you can configure the stage however you want.
Heather then gave us an hour to get back to Woolwich and eat eat lunch. She told us to just take the train. But that would take us out of our zone and we would have pay to get to class. So we took the bus and it took us at least an hour and half. I think she was mad, but it was kind of ridiculous to expect us to make it back that fast or pay to get there.
Workshop we studied Brecht and really controversial plays. Then we had to script our own short play based on a newspaper article. We did ours on maternity and paternity leaves and equal rights. I was...interesting.
We went for Indian food last night and it was amazing. We walked to Blackheath. Totally warth it. After food we cut back through the park as it was closing. It was drizzling a bit but that made it really cool when we spotted the green Prime Meridian laser. It looks like it was sparkling everytime a rain drop crossed. We could see it going all the way into the city.
