New York City - Lower East Side
August 11, 2012
Brad - A
Chelsea - A
After Jersey we headed into the big city! Luckily, we got to spend a couple of hours visiting with these 2 awesome people - and yes, I chose this pic because you are petting a cheetah!!
Story! Coriolanus is...awesome. He is a soldier who comes home to Rome where there are strikes because of a grain shortage. He is celebrated from a victory against the Volscian army. His mother convinces him to run for political office, although he is purely a soldier at heart, he agrees to appease his mother. He wins the support of the Senate and the commoners until two of the senators, Brutus and Sicinius, conspire to get public support against Coriolanus. He gets so mad that he rails on the public and politics, gets banished from Rome, and decided to join up with the Volscian army to take down Rome. Rome freaks out and tried to dissuade Coriolanus from taken them down. After talking with this mother and wife, he takes pity and arranges a peace treaty between Rome and the Volscains. When he returns to the Volscains, they kill him for being a traitor.
So sad! We really liked this! It was set in modern times with the occupy movement and it fit really perfectly. It was in a parking lot...literally, we sat on a blanket but the actors were legit! They all were really great!!! The actor playing Coriolanus was amazing. He was young and played a strong military guy so well. You felt for him and agreed with him. He was just a good guy trying to do the right thing and his death was really sad. It was also awesome to see such a unique setting with such good actors for free! I mean at one point in time he climbed a sign and they told you to go to McDonald's to use bathrooms. It was straight up great!
We finally made it home at around 3AM so, the next day Brad looked a lot like this:
Whirlwind NY trip, ROCKED!!!
Chelsea
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