The Merchant of Venice

I must say however much fun or entertaining the baseball game Friday night was, Saturday night was definitely better. I attended Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice performed by the DC Shakespeare Theatre Company. It was awesome!!! So cool! They did an awesome job! They were very creative and although it was a Shakespearean play it had a 1920's twist to it, all the costumes and even the accents haha. It was actually very well done. I think it also helped to lift the dark and depressing mood that was apparent throughout the play.

Despite the unsettling religious arguments and wrongdoings both thought and enacted because of selfishness and greed, which I think was to show just how cruel and down right ridiculous man-kind can be, despite religious preference, it was an excellent production!!! Obviously there were some funny parts, scattered throughout, especially the last few scenes. Very clever. Very much worth the student-discounted price we paid.

Oh gosh.. does this mean that I actually enjoyed a more mind-stimulating event as opposed to a sporting event?!?! What's DC done to me?!?!? ;)

What was fun was while we were waiting for the bus to come to take us home I realized that some of the actors had exited the building from a door like right behind us! It was so cool! I felt like we were supposed to go up and attack them with cameras and ask them to signature everything we had. I resisted. Not sure that's appropriate DC behavior. It was a tough call.. I'm still not sure I made the right choice. But they're just normal people!! One guy even rode off on his bike! The last two to leave were the main characters who in the play hated each other. When they'd exited the stage after applause etc. they'd left arm in arm. But they even left the actual building together. I hope that's kinda how this life turns out.. the people with whom we quarrel with the most turn out to become our best friends because we've been able to work through our differences and have humbled ourselves enough to allow that to happen. Nice thought anyways.. It was neat to see really..