June 22nd 2011

Early morning class started our day.  We got to hear presentations from the grad students (and Miranda who is an honors student) about some of the members of the Bloomsbury Group. We as a group decided that their relationships with each other and their scandalous stories could totally make up an entire season of a soap opera. We then took a rather long and rainy walk to several famous squares around Bloomsbury that were directly connected to our members of the group.  Most squares had flats that one or more of the members had lived in at some point in their lives.  This was pretty cool. After the walk, we ate lunch and went to find more shopping opportunities. Our evening show was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which was hilarious! I was sad though, because several posters around town advertised Tim Curry would be starring. Unfortunately, he was not in the performance that we saw, but it was still great! I really enjoy how the show doesn’t have much of a tangible plot; it’s more about contemplating life and all that comes with it. R & G spend the entire span of the play trying to figure out who they were (because they didn’t know which name belonged to which one of them), why they were where they were, where they came from, and what their purpose was. It was a fun concept and kept us thinking the whole time. It helped a lot that most of time we were laughing our heads off. If anyone hasn’t seen the movie with Gary Oldman, it’s on Netflix, and I recommend it… if you’re into this sort of thing.

Me, Holly, and Rachael outside the Haymarket Theatre.