The Smell of the Stage...

It seems Courtney has told you all that I'm going to go crazy writing about the Globe. I mean, I was going to anyway, but she's left me with a lot of responsibility!!!

Sittin' against The Globe

On one of our walking days we pretty much accidentally stumbled across The Globe. It's just nestled amongst a bunch of buildings next to the Thames and we were like 'Hey man! It's the freakin' Globe!' And It was the freakin' Globe. We proceeded to walk around it in awe and 'ooh' and 'aah'. As Courtney mentioned, we love a movie called The History Boys, which has a character in it called Scripps, played by an actor called Jamie Parker. He's our favourite character, and on researching what was going to be playing while we were here Courtney found out he was playing Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1 and 2. We love Jamie Parker, we love Shakespeare. We lost our shit a little bit.

Jamie Parker!!!

We bought tickets to the 'Groundling' area (where you stand in the area in front of the stage) for £5. £5!!!!! It's unbelievable!! Cheaper than a movie, better than a movie, and all taking place at the London Globe. We took a little guided tour of the theatre before heading to the play and found that they can fit 900 people sitting and 700 standing. Now, if you could see the Globe, you'd think this was impossible. I still think it's impossible. It must be a TARDIS... In our over excitement we decided to line up an hour early, chow down on some lunch and get us some prime standing spots. We were RIGHT ON THE STAGE!! Our elbows were on it!

This brings me to the title of this post. The stage smells magnificent! Really, it just smells like wood, but it's such a pleasant smell. That coupled with being no more than about three metres from the actors at any one time made it my favourite moment so far. One of the disclaimers on the map of the theatre is that the action is going to be obscured at some point regardless of where you are in the theatre. The only time the action was obscured from us was when there was an actor reclining in front of us. Yep.

We were standing at the bit where the stage goes out at an angle!

I feel sorry for Bell Shakespeare now. They are never going to be able to live up to our Globe experience. I haven't seen a production from them anywhere near as good as this was since Hamlet, and I'm pretty sure I was like 13 when they did that. You know what's the most exciting though? We're going to see part two on thursday!! More Jamie Parker! More Shakespeare! More stage smell!! I love The Globe so very much.

I think that counts as a rant. Job done!

Bron xoxoxox