Today, we went to three museums, and the bloodiest play Shakespeare ever wrote. First up was the Tate Modern, which houses the modern half of the Tate Museum's collection. This includes some Cubist, Dada, and Surrealist art (including Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus, which adorned the wall of my freshman dorm room), but mostly contained the lnd of art found in the new wing at SLAM. This ranged from interesting to "this is just a mirror stuck on the wall". Since I have difficulty seeing this stuff as greater than the sum of its parts, the Tate Modern was kind of a disappointment.
Next up was the underground bunker where Churchill and his cabinet conducted their business in wartime. This was a great look into who Churchill was, and how hard it was on the people who worked long hours in uncomfortable conditions during the Blitz and beyond. From there, we walked to Trafalgar Square to see Nelson's Column, and a giant statue of a royal blue rooster, who judging by the social status of all the other statues in the square was a famous British admiral or king. While we stopped corns quick drink, I noticed that the building at the other end of the square was the National Gallery, housing paintings from the Renaissance to a vast collection of Impressionists. We only had time to see some of the Impressionists before the trip to the theater, but what we saw was enough to make us want to come back another day.
From there, we went to see a play at the Globe Theater, a modern reconstruction of the orginal. The show this evening was Titus Andronicus, which will mt be coming to the Shakespeare Festival ever. This is mostly because of the fact that this play contains Tarantino-esque levels of violence and gore that caused at least two people in the audience to faint. Those who could stand it were treated to an incredibly acted show in an intimate setting that required no microphones, and allowed the actors to perform many of the actions amongst the groundlings. Tomorrow morning I will write my second beer review.
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