Earthquakes in London

No no, not an actual earthquake. But a play called "Earthquakes in London." We just got back around 11:15 pm from the performance that was at the National Theater right along the Thames River. When you walked into the theater, it was a big winding runway looking stage with barstools surrounding it on either side, which is where I sat. Other audience members stood in different areas on the ground floor, and others were in balconies above the performance. The performance was about climate change, and was incredibly moving and very depressing. I cried almost the entire way through the second act and ate some ben and jerrys directly afterwards. It took place with three sisters being introduced as three completely different characters, each with extremely different personalities. Jasmine, the youngest sister at 19 years old, was a crazy university student, with a sort-of porn-star vibe. She even stripped at one point during the show. Then Friar, the middle sister was pregnant with her first child, but her father basically told her to "do what you have to do" because a child should not be in the future world. Basically, the father was a environmentalist to the extreme that believed the present generation was creating this awful world run by disease, terrorism, plague, smog, pollution, etc and to bring a child into a world like that was cruel. (I am clearly not explaining this all too well, but you truly felt this was a correct statement throughout the whole performance.) Then the last and oldest sister, Sara, actually raised the other two sisters because their mother died from cancer and the father was absent. She was a politician that was involved in environmental issues, and was about to announce a proposal to expand airplane travel across Europe. Anyway, the play was extremely intense, pulling at your heart-strings and toying with your emotions the whole time, and the performance was also extremely long. (Lasted over 3 hours) But I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the setting with the stage sort of becoming part of the audience, it made for a very interesting feel.

We will see a play every Tuesday night for the rest of the semester, so I am excited to see what the next one will be!