What a crazy week! This is for February 14th through the 19th.
I got to see an amazing production of Frankenstein at the National Theatre on Tuesday the 15th. This adaptation was realized by THE Danny Boyle (Academy Award winner for Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire). The two characters (Victor and the monster) played amazingly off of each other. Rumor has it that the two characters switch rolls every night to really understand each character flawlessly. The themes that make up this play are mind boggling to me. Not only do you have the classic good versus evil and the ever present “playing God” issues, they brought in a new one I had never noticed before. The Garden of Eden. Is this an actual location or is this just a state of mind that we are all born into and we then turn evil because we see the world for what it is? It provoked my mind and I absolutely loved it!
On Friday, I went to a Hot Bikram Yoga class! It was 111°F! I originally thought the class would be a piece of cake- with working out in the hot sun all summer with jeans and a T-shirt on? No problem. Oh man was I so wrong. I was literally dying! Sweat was dripping off of me continuously- all I had on was a bathing suit top and leggings. The class was an hour and a half long and after the first 25 minutes, I thought I might pass out. There were moments when I had these thoughts of just running out the door before anybody could stop me and I would just keep running all the way home. I made it through, however, and I felt a bit of a high from the experience. I had managed it! I didn’t pass out or run out of the room! I had even been able to do most of the poses. I even wrote a blog about the experience for my internship - check it out at http://amazingpr.wordpress.com/.
Saturday. It was getting pretty close to my birthday, so I decided I would do something fun to celebrate. I went on a Harry Potter on Location in London Walk. It was 2 ½ hours long with an ex-actor named Richard. We got to see all the cool places the Harry Potter films had been filmed around London. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione apparate to London in the 7th film after the attack at the wedding- they went to Piccadilly Circus. They shut down the whole street and brought in 400 extras to film the 15 second scene. I also got to see a lot of the inspirations behind many of the made-up locations (Diagon Alley, Ollivander’s, the restaurant that was destroyed in the 7th film, Covent Garden- where she did much of her writing).
Westminster station was used in the 5th film when Arthur had to take Harry to the ministry. Oh yeah, and the telephone booth used to descend into the ministry was just off of Whit Hall! This is the same road the Prime Minister, David Cameron, lives off of as well as where Charles I was beheaded. This road also connects to the road where the UK Parliament is located. There were so many cool things so make sure to check out my pictures on Facebook!
I’ll give you part 2 of my birthday weekend in a few short days so keep an eye out!
Love from London,
B
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