Still no news from any of you...
Well, as the title reads, still no news from any of you apart from Dan! That is not very nice hmmmm. Still, I will keep uploading this blog, mainly coz I get absolutelt bored in my new job and have plenty of time to think and write.
Last time I wrote something here, I had not even gone to London, which I did twice this summer, as I suppose you know, mainly coz I wrote you all some e-mails telling you about it. First time I was ther with my lovely sis, my mum and one of my cousins (the funky music teacher, I love her!) It was great, though tiring! We decided we wanted to walk a lot, and so we did...British museum, Tate modern and Tate Gallery, national museum, national portrait gallery...we are quite the intellectual type of family you cannot easily find (hehe) plus my cousin not only studied music but art, so she just explained everything to us. I really enjoyed the cultural trip to London!
Then I went back with Pablo, to spend some days there before he flew to Bratislava, where he is to stay for 5 months with an Erasmus program (like I did). It was also quite cultural, mainly because we spent loads of time in museums (science,natural history, he loves science, you can tell) But the best one was, without a doubt the war museum; you must go and see it, specially the exhibition dedicated to the holocaust in WWII. Amazing.
We also went to the Shakespeare's Globe as I wrote in another post...it was far better than I expected! Although I was wasted and tired, because we had been walking the whole day and had not slept very well in the night, I was delighted with it! The performance was very good (I know this sounds poor but I feel silly writing sublime ;), they even mixed with the audience and made it more interesting. The blood and guts and savagery of the play made some people faint, I dunno, but if you go to see Titus Andronicus you know there is gonna be blood...come on, it's absolutely gory! But well...We stood in front of the stage, first row, I felt like 16th century!
The only bad thing about it was that the audience was mainly tourists, and most of them did not have a clue of what they were seeing, hearing or what was going on on stage..they just laughed in the most inappropiate moments of the play!! Anyway, you cannot expect everyone to be sensitive and have a natural taste for theatre.
I did not know the play very much, but now I have seen it, I am starting to like it more; intense is the word to describe it: madness and all those crimes on stage, rape and savagery; I don't know why people cry out loud when they hear talking about this, when it does appeal to our most basic instincts and arises a morbid curiosity in all of us. I know because I saw it in the theatre, how people rejoiced in the sight of the girl without hands or tongue who had been raped and had her clothes stained with blood. It was impressive, yet you could see people laughing between their teeth and with their eyes open wide, as if they were children watching the clowns of the circus.
Funny that now, centuries after the writing of the play it is still appealing to all of us: I don't think it is because we can see ourselves reflected in the characters, or situations, but I think it is just that it arises our most basic instincts, we find ourselves captivated by the savagery of the actions, wanting both to look away and remember the gory images we are presented with: it is both disgusting and appealing at the same time: it makes us laugh and feel horror.
That is absolutely the genius of Shakespeare's plays: even if his stories were not all original, it cannot be denied that the approach and language were a novelty. And that is precisely what makes them be considered master pieces centuries after they were written.
Shakespeare has always been fashionable, I wish I could say the same of some other author. Ask yourself why.
Wow, this has been long and absolutely improvised!!! I am sorry about it guys, you may have been bored by it, but you know how I feel about literature and specially about Shakespeare.
This has been too long I think, so I will stop now, and maybe write tomorrow and let you know all about my new job and how life has been these last months.
See ya later alligator!
Ps- I don't expect any of you to answer this, not even to read it, so I will stop asking you to, I have been thinking lately and have reached some conclusions... :P
Last time I wrote something here, I had not even gone to London, which I did twice this summer, as I suppose you know, mainly coz I wrote you all some e-mails telling you about it. First time I was ther with my lovely sis, my mum and one of my cousins (the funky music teacher, I love her!) It was great, though tiring! We decided we wanted to walk a lot, and so we did...British museum, Tate modern and Tate Gallery, national museum, national portrait gallery...we are quite the intellectual type of family you cannot easily find (hehe) plus my cousin not only studied music but art, so she just explained everything to us. I really enjoyed the cultural trip to London!
Then I went back with Pablo, to spend some days there before he flew to Bratislava, where he is to stay for 5 months with an Erasmus program (like I did). It was also quite cultural, mainly because we spent loads of time in museums (science,natural history, he loves science, you can tell) But the best one was, without a doubt the war museum; you must go and see it, specially the exhibition dedicated to the holocaust in WWII. Amazing.
We also went to the Shakespeare's Globe as I wrote in another post...it was far better than I expected! Although I was wasted and tired, because we had been walking the whole day and had not slept very well in the night, I was delighted with it! The performance was very good (I know this sounds poor but I feel silly writing sublime ;), they even mixed with the audience and made it more interesting. The blood and guts and savagery of the play made some people faint, I dunno, but if you go to see Titus Andronicus you know there is gonna be blood...come on, it's absolutely gory! But well...We stood in front of the stage, first row, I felt like 16th century!
The only bad thing about it was that the audience was mainly tourists, and most of them did not have a clue of what they were seeing, hearing or what was going on on stage..they just laughed in the most inappropiate moments of the play!! Anyway, you cannot expect everyone to be sensitive and have a natural taste for theatre.
I did not know the play very much, but now I have seen it, I am starting to like it more; intense is the word to describe it: madness and all those crimes on stage, rape and savagery; I don't know why people cry out loud when they hear talking about this, when it does appeal to our most basic instincts and arises a morbid curiosity in all of us. I know because I saw it in the theatre, how people rejoiced in the sight of the girl without hands or tongue who had been raped and had her clothes stained with blood. It was impressive, yet you could see people laughing between their teeth and with their eyes open wide, as if they were children watching the clowns of the circus.
Funny that now, centuries after the writing of the play it is still appealing to all of us: I don't think it is because we can see ourselves reflected in the characters, or situations, but I think it is just that it arises our most basic instincts, we find ourselves captivated by the savagery of the actions, wanting both to look away and remember the gory images we are presented with: it is both disgusting and appealing at the same time: it makes us laugh and feel horror.
That is absolutely the genius of Shakespeare's plays: even if his stories were not all original, it cannot be denied that the approach and language were a novelty. And that is precisely what makes them be considered master pieces centuries after they were written.
Shakespeare has always been fashionable, I wish I could say the same of some other author. Ask yourself why.
Wow, this has been long and absolutely improvised!!! I am sorry about it guys, you may have been bored by it, but you know how I feel about literature and specially about Shakespeare.
This has been too long I think, so I will stop now, and maybe write tomorrow and let you know all about my new job and how life has been these last months.
See ya later alligator!
Ps- I don't expect any of you to answer this, not even to read it, so I will stop asking you to, I have been thinking lately and have reached some conclusions... :P
posted by PichuLulita at 11/16/2006 05:08:00 p. m.
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