Feminist London - Day 19

The days are beginning to wind down! Today was a free day, and I spent the majority of it at the theater! I went back to Regent's Park to see a production of "Macbeth" in the afternoon. It was a production specifically aimed at children, so the play was condensed a bit, but most of the original language was preserved. I thought it was a really odd choice to turn into a children's play, as it's a really gruesome story, but I thought it was really well done.

From Feminist London July 21

The puppets are the Weird Sisters. Very creepy!

In the evening I went with Anna and this friend of her grandfather's that she was meeting up with (I was there for moral support) to see the play "Warhorse" which was just amazing. It's the story of this boy from Devon who raises a horse that eventually is sold by his father to the cavalry at the onset of WWI. Even though the boy is only 16, he enlists in the army to try to find his horse and bring it back to England. The show was incredibly moving in how it portrayed the affects of WWI not just on people, but on the animals as well. But the puppetry of the horses was just unbelievable. The puppets were so complex that it allowed the puppeteer to make it seem like the horse was breathing. So cool!