Little Washington, Virginia
September 15, 2012
Brad - A
Chelsea - B
The week before our wedding we headed 2 hours south to see some Shakespeare. We have priorities. Marriage smarriage, we have 37 in 12 months!! So, we headed out dinner-less and because we are so awesome at showing up 2 minutes before the show starts and being terrified about getting there on time we got a well balanced meal.
Coffee and dill pickle potato chips!
About the play: Antony, one of Rome's 3 leaders, has been neglecting his Roman duties to shack it up with the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. He is infatuated and Rome is not so happy about it. The other 2 leaders call Antony back to Rome to help fight Pompey and some pirates. Cleopatra begs Antony not to go but he promises his love and heads out. Because the other 2 leaders are pretty peeved at Antony, it is suggested that Antony marry Octavian's (one of the other leaders) sister to solidify his love for Rome and commitment. He caves and marries her. Cleopatra, whose blood runs Egyptian hot, hears about the marriage. She is so mad and takes her anger out on a messenger. Meanwhile, Antony and the fellas meet with Pompey and try to call a truce. But, the other 2 leaders break the truce and a war breaks out. Antony is not in agreement. He ditches his new wife and heads back to Egypt crowning Cleopatra and himself rulers or Egypt. Octavian is not happy and goes to war with Antony. Cleopatra vows to help him but in the middle of the battle withdraws all of her people. So, losing Antony flees. Cleopatra apologizes and in the next battle she flees from helping Antony again! She is worried Antony will be mad at her so fakes her death (clearly the best decision) and sends word to Antony. Not so successful, instead he tries to kill himself and eventually dies in her arms. Cleopatra, instead of being seen as a villain, poisons herself.
It was like a selfish annoying flighty version of Romeo & Juliet, which was kind of neat. I liked it more than Brad (which is hard to tell since he gives everyone A's) because it was the right amount of you hating the characters. Cleopatra is so selfish and bipolar. She hates him, she loves him, she abandons him, she fakes dead. She is exhausting! He is a love drunk idiot. Vows to kill her for betraying him, then loves her, then hates her. It is an interesting take on love and power. The actors were good. I would like to see this done different ways. Cleopatra is so sexual and intriguing, I bet there are awesome renditions. Funniest/awkwardest/awesomest part was that they choose to use handkerchiefs instead of swords. I mean they owned it. They did entire battles with...handkerchiefs. It was an interesting decision....we giggled.
We also had tons of leg room! Which is a plus and we snuck in candy.
Brad judged me for my candy sneaking.
We also saw a man in a Colonel Sanders bow tie! This was us stalking him and trying to get a casual pic of his tie.
Chelsea
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