SHAKESPEARE IN DA HOUSE!!!

Hello world :)

As you know, yesterday, I went to see Shakespeare in the Park at Fort Canning Park. I came home really late after the thing ended so my mum refused to let me use the computer :( Anyways, I was feeling very tired then. I left home at 4.30pm and only came back at around 11.50pm. As you can see, I was gone for practically half the day. Actually, the show ended at around 10.20pm. It was camwhoring with my friends that took so long XD

I got to the venue at around 5.50pm or something. But the gate didn't open until around 6.30pm! T.T So I had to wait. And my friends haven't arrived yet too. I took our tickets from and then I got in line waiting for the gate to open. There was light drizzle when I arrived. I was hoping that it won't become a full-on storm because I was really looking forward to this event! Look, this is the ticket:

I am sorry, I took the picture at home, so the lighting kind of sucked :( On the ticket it says it costs $33, however, the school managed to subsidise for us until it only cost $25! The school so nice, right? When the gate opened at 6.30pm, my friends still haven't arrived yet, so I left their tickets at the counter and went in. OMG! The stage was freaking cool! It was slanting downwards leh! Here are some of the pictures I took while waiting for my friends :)

Looking at it, you can tell that the sponsers really spent alot of time, effort and money into making such a beautiful set. So, obviously, they were counting on the show being a raving success XD The crowd that you see here are only half of the actual crowd, towards the starting of the show, more and more people streamed in. As you can see, people are sitting in front of the stage on their picnic mats. We supposedly to "picnic under the stars". Obviously, everyone brought along food and drinks. Oh god, the smell of food...and beer -.- Seriously, why would people want to drink beer at an event like this? There'll obviously be little kids around, right? 

While waiting for my friends, I also read the program booklet. They were giving program booklets in exchange for a small donation. It was easy to see why: SRT (the theatre that was hosting the play) was a non-profit organisation, so they needed all the donations they can get. I decided to be nice and give $4 :) See, I am so big-hearted LOL. This is the program booklet:

It is the cover of all the Shakespeare in the Park posters! I was flipping through it and also saw advertisments for two plays that SRT was going to perform later this year. And they seem interesting enough...Maybe I'll save up money and buy a ticket to one of the plays.

The second one looks scary....Anyways, here are more pictures that I took before the play started:

The more expensive seats. Pavilion tickets

Random trees :D

The building at the top of the hill :)

The car O.O

The theatre was on the base of hill >.< I was at the top :D

Look at the crowd O.O

The set right before the show started

Sorry of the last two blur pictures :( My camera doesn't work well in zoom. I just realised that I wrote so much about what happened before the play .__. Okay, so, now, I am going to talk about the play :D Before that, here is a synopsis of the play ripped from the website: http://www.sistic.com.sg

If music be the food of love, play on.

Shakespeare in the Park is back with a fun-filled frolic like never before.

From the company that brought you A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth, Twelfth Night is a rambunctious romantic comedy that will have you laughing and falling in love all over again.

Filled with witty banter and side-splitting laughs, Twelfth Night is a delightful comedy big on love, life and merriment.

Picnic under the stars and be romanced by this quirky and endearing comedy. Twelfth Night promises to be an unforgettable and magical evening for one and all.

Orsino, the Duke of Illyria pines for the lovely Countess Olivia who rejects his advances. In the meantime, the shipwrecked Viola, convinced that she has lost all kin, disguises herself as a boy and takes the name Cesario. Cesario soon finds herself in the Duke’s household as his page and helps him woo fair Olivia.

In a strange turn of events, Olivia finds herself falling for Cessario (who really is Viola in disguise) and Viola herself is falling for the Duke. With this love triangle complete, hilarious twists are bound to ensue.

The actors and actresses were really good! Although half the time I couldn't really understand the language because they tried to keep to the original Shakespearean language as much as they could. But I managed to get the gist of it. After doing Romeo and Juliet for Literature last year, the language was slightly easier to understand. Their acting was top-class, which really helped. The actors were really good-looking too ^.^ 

 This kind of play really made me love Shakespeare all over again. It was one of Shakespeare's funnier plays. I really wanted to watch A Midsummer's Night's Dream when it was showing in Singapore 2 years ago...but obviously, the ticket was too expensive :( I hope that they do another funny play of Shakespeare's next year. Shakespeare can be really extreme when it comes to writing his plays. He can write the most depressing plays (Macbeth) and the funniest plays (A Midsummer's Night's Dream). 

I hope I can go for next year's one too! And this time, I'll go with packed food. I didn't pack food yesterday as I was already rushing for time and I forgot to tell my mum beforehand to prepare some food for me. So, I had to buy the really expensive food which they were selling at the venue T.T It cost $6! And the portions weren't even that big. Ugh...waste of money....

Okay, so now I have to do my English speech...which is due tomorrow. And I haven't even started on it...I am screwed. To cheer myself up, I decided to take a picture of my favourite socks!

So cute right? Bought it from Daiso ^.^ And the socks are very warm too! Which really helped since it was freezing cold yesterday because of the rain. Right, back to my English Speech. TT.TT