Its been a crazy, stressful week! I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre & Performance Archive this afternoon. I was really scared and intimidated about it this morning, but it was so cool! I'm doing research for my drama class and needed to get some primary documents. I'm studying Lyceum Theatre (where they show Lion King now) and a performance of The Bells in 1871 starring Sir Henry Irving. He was the first actor to be knighted and the opening night of The Bells was a major performance that made him and the theatre famous. I handled pictures, drawings, newspaper clippings, theatre programs, photo negatives, advertisements, etc that were over 100 years old!! Some of them were so fragile they were falling apart, I couldn't believe I was able to look at them and touch them! I have to write my essay as if I were a member of the audience for this particular performance, so it was perfect seeing all these original documents today. I felt like I was actually experiencing what it might have been like when I'm able to read people's original reviews and articles on the performance. I would never be able to do something like that in Texas!
After I got back, I went and bought some groceries and we had an American dinner night! I made a yummy chicken-broccoli-cheese-Ritz cracker casserole and another girl made chocolate chip pancakes for dessert. It was so good and exactly what I needed!! We made a complete itinerary of our days in Paris and I can't believe its only a day away!!
What a great way to get to do research for your class, very cool!!
ReplyDeleteYa, so was going to see Lion King :-) That was a bit of a stretch!
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