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[cybermule]

Moderately cheery and sociable all day! ;)

Went to budokan for tea(*), then watched Paradise Lost at the Old Vic. I haven't read "the book of the movie", although I knew the vague plot ;) I'd never been in that theatre before, but I ended up perched right near the ceiling. Not the best view, but pretty cool. And creaky. The sets were all quite modern, and worked with the film images really well. Sometimes those "modern interpretations" jar a little in the translation [read: piss me off, cartman style!]. But this was good - for example, they interpreted the apple tree as a perspex box. The acting was good - the guy who plays Adam improves, I'm not sure if God was intentionally bland. If he was, that was a cool touch, along with the vaguely office-themed set for hell, and satirising the Eden Project. That last link is way cooler than my choice of restaurant :)


In short, it was good, and I'm going to the theatre more often from now on. There are some rewritten fairytales on there soon.

* Note to overseas customers - not all Brits pull such silly faces. Honestly, we really don't!

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[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, maybe something like an Islamic prayer rug? (whatever it's really called). That might be interesting, and could explain the violent tendencies of several of their sects!

They've all been exposed to rabies from the dustbunnies used to make their prayer mats!!!!!!!