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silvercat17 posting in justcreatediffrentcoloursTonight, me and cosmolinguist drove over into Wales to visit Park in The Past for a performance of Beowulf. This was in the dirt-floored Earth House, a large building of wood with wool thatch and a fire in the middle. Guests sat at long wooden tables on a mixture of wooden benches and plastic chairs.
"Oswald the Great" told the story in English, from memory, and adapted it a little to the environment, including pointing out how Hrothgar's mead hall in the story didn't have an illuminated fire exit sign. There was a good amount of audience participation, including chanting Beowulf's name when he appears in the story, and some mild heckling, not least from the "high table" of staff reenactor blokes who were cast by the bard as Hrothgar, his wife ("with fulsome beard") and two advisors.
The story highlighted Beowulf getting naked to fight Grendel, and we assumed we were getting the monsterfucking version. Especially when Grendel's mother straddles Beowulf on the ground and starts choking him... but no, it remained mostly PG rated.
There was a bar in the hall, and we had some flavoured mead - elderflower for me, and chestnut for E. The story was told in three acts with breaks between featuring music performances from a talented mother-daughter folk duo. During one of the breaks, I grabbed a very tasty boar burger. It's a shame there wasn't any vegetarian hot food, but E survived with crisps and peanuts.
All in all we had a great time, cuddled up listening to the story, thumping tables and clapping to the music. The drive back through thick mist was fine, fuelled by Radio 1 dance music, and now we are knackered and in bed.
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lovingbothThe Kitchen
A good production at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
A day in a very busy London restaurant kitchen. Having two thousand 'covers' to deal with in a day is eek on its own, even with a break between lunch and dinner sittings, before you get the tensions between the different characters. The note on the Central Tickets listing mentioned that this hasn't been seen much since its 1959 premiere. Apart from some of the content - the female parts are all noticeably smaller than almost all of the male ones, for example - one big reason for this is the cast size: twenty eight speaking parts. Only the 18 third year acting students got photos in the A4 programme! As well as that and their name, they just got their Spotlight reference number so you can look them up. The second year ones just got their names.
I could have saved £4 by just saying I'd booked via the site: there were no actual tickets or seat reservations.
Sophie's Surprise Party
Another Central Tickets find - it'd been at the paid Fringe this year and has probably had a few minutes and definitely, on early evening shows, an interval added. Based on the conceit that it's the thing in the title, it's actually a cabaret of uniformly excellent acrobatic / circus skills acts. Someone from the front row gets picked to be 'Sophie', but sadly it wasn't me. Towards the end Sophie gets to pick which of two cast members a third should 'go home' with. Sadly (again) this Sophie didn't say both of them :) and I suspect that if they did, they would be pushed to pick one: the loser then does something.
At the very end, they said something about tagging them in photos and videos: no-one had said you could take them! I would have shot much of it, except that most of the time I was too busy applauding. And wondering who deserves it more: the performer who falls straight down head first about 4m several times or the performer who catches them every time?
Highly recommended, particularly at the £15 I paid.
languagelog_feedThe "words per day" thing has mostly gone quiet since it erupted in the media nearly 20 years ago — but here's a sensible replay:
For more about the general background than you want to know, see
"Neuroscience in the service of sexual stereotypes" (8/6/2006)
"Sex-linked lexical budgets" (8/6/2006)
"Sex and speaking rate" (8/7/2006)
"Yet another sex-n-wordcount sighting" (8/14/2006)
"The main job of the girl brain" (9/2/2006)
"The superior cunning of women" (9/2/2006)
"The laconic rapist in the womb" (9/4/2006)
"Open-access sex stereotypes" (9/10/2006)
"David Brooks, Neuroendocrinologist" (9/17/2006)
"Gabby guys: the effect size" (9/25/2006)
""Every 52 seconds": wrong by 23,736 percent?" (10/13/2006)
"Guys are a bit gabbier in Dutch, too" (10/16/2006)
"Two new reviews of Brizendine" (10/30/2006)
"Word counts" (11/28/2006)
"Bible Science Stories" (12/2/2006)
"Sex differences in "communication events" per day?" (12/11/2006)
"The first time?" (7/5/2007)
"Female talkativeness: 'Knowledge protected against induction'" (7/6/2007)
"Interview: The new fashion for biological determinism" (8/10/2008)
"The defend-your-turf area?" (3/29/2010)
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