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Off to see The Winters Tale tonight. Woo! All male cast, which might be interesting.

Am feeling very relaxed - today was Not Too Shite and have got time off for the interview on Fri (although I had to lie which I hate doing, but Boss flies off the handle at EVERYTHING so she left me little choice.)

Dreamt about cajoling little Charlie from Lost into having sex the other night, although it kind of got mashed up with New Battlestar Gallactica, which I have been thoroughly enjoying on DVD (only 1st 4 episodes, so left on a big cliffie... damn you Screen Select!) Lots of TV themed dreams lately, actually. I bit too much time in front of the gogglebox, perchance...

Ah well, going to be all cultured tonight to counter it.

Exit, persued by Teddy Bear

All male Winter's Tale... Hmmm.

All in all, v good, with an interesting take on the end. Rather than taking the 'and they all lived happily ever after ending' that the text suggests, Laertes' attempted reconciliation with his family was silently rejected, bringing the play full circle. Interesting, since I always saw WT as a very positive tale of redemption and new life. But interesting = good.

The pastoral bit was bloody hilarious, although some brief nudity was a bit much for the very middle aged, very middle class audience (although not so much as the spitting in the first half... of which there was plenty! Each gobful of phlegm all over a character's face was met with a loud gasp from the stalls... 'look, kill her and her children if you must, but don't *spit* on her!')

The all male angle... hmm... me likey. Not only because that equalled Hot Boys Snogging (another gasp from the lovely quaint audience!) Paulina & Hermione were great (I love Hermione anyway, but seeing her as this bloke with big biceps trembling in court in a blood soaked nightie... tres cool) and they used the same actor to play Perdita as they did the one who played the son that dies in the first half, who was portrayed as some sort of weird Idiot Savant kid who was haunted by the images of his own death, and kept appearing as a mute ghost throughout the play whenever Perdita wasn't on. And hence the big joke at the end of part 1 - Antigonus was chased off by Weird Kid's ghost, brandishing what else but... a Teddy Bear!

Yes folks, they made the stage direction even weirder.
Exit, persued by Winnie The Pooh.