First show at the New Globe Theatre. For those that don't know, the New Globe is a fairly recent building that was built in (almost) exactly the same manner as the Old Globe (then known as the Globe Theatre). You may be asking, "What is the Globe Theatre?" Why it was non other than Shakespeare's theatre in London. It was cool. We had to stand as groundlings, which was fun. The standing sucked. But the stage had an aisle of sorts that extended out in a semi-circle from stage right to stage left with a small platform. This created a sort of bubble for the standing audience members and that is where we stood. It made it seem like we were onstage at certain points in the show.
The show itself was extremely well done. The characters all did a very good job, except one, who had really doofy expressions and made them in an effort to "react" to his fellow actors' lines. The problem is there were 3 expressions, and none of them were natural. Fortunately he was not a very important part. The play itself is brilliant (of course, as it's Shakespeare) and the traditional execution was magical. It was probably in the top three of shows I've seen here thus far (which is significant, as I've seen almost 20) even when compared to the musicals I've seen.
Anyway, it was one of those nights that I can't quite give justice to in words, so you must just take my word for it. It was truly magical.
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