"serve my madness, not my reason"

[orangerful]

Yay, I finished my icon set for whedon20in20 - and just in time too! (if you want to see the set, they are here @ orangerfulboxes). I'm quite happy with how a lot of them turned out. Next month I need to actually try to make a few of them BEFORE the due date.

I saw Phedre at the Shakespeare Theatre today. It is the National Theatre of Great Britain's production starring Helen Mirren as Phedre. But let me tell you, EVERYONE was amazing. Just mesmerizing. It's a Greek tragedy that was reworked several times over the centuries (and you thought reboots were something new!) and I think the production we saw was adapated by Sylvia Plath's husband Ted Hughes, adapted from Racine's version from the late 1600s. But a story of an older woman lusting after her stepson is timeless...in a creepy kind of way. If she had just kept her mouth shut, she would have been fine, but then there were rumors that her husband was dead, and she confessed her obsession with the stepson too soon because, turns out her husband wasn't dead, just sailing. Whoops. AWKWARD! It's all pretty much downhill from there for the poor old girl. And her stepson, for that matter. It's an intense play, to say the least.

Oh, and did I mention our tickets were in the SECOND row. Yeah, just wow. It's going to be hard to top that.

After it ended, I checked out the gift shop and they had autographed copies of Helen Mirren's autobiography, so I had to buy one. Also bought a small poster that I will some day frame...my imaginary house has MANY empty walls.

Comments

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

I am jealous of your nearness to such things, and also of your epically good seats. O____O One of these days. Especially since apparently it isn't that far from Morgantown to over where you live, so once grad school starts especially I will be able to pester you and my friends Erin and Taylor often. :D *botherbotherbother*

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

bother away! Always fun stuff going on over here. And if nothing is going on, we will MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[hermionesparkle.livejournal.com]

Haha, what's the fun in doing a 20in20 if you don't do them in a rush before the due date? Lol!! Sounds like a great time, what great seats!