London, United Kingdom
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
how desperate were we for tickets to this sold out show? desperate enough to sleep out from 1:30 (yes in the AM) until just 10 day of seated tickets were released at 10:30 that morning... we got into london at about 10 o'clock monday nite and tried to find a pub that would stay open a little later than the usual 11pm... but we had to settle for a mcdicks where we sat around playing cards until about 1:20 and then made our way over to the Donmar Warehouse to set up for the night... we were the first ones there (we're very proud of that fact) but people started lining up shortly afterwards... by 3am i would say there was enough people to claim all the seated tix. there were still 20 standing tix to be released as well... i got maybe a half hour to an hour of broken sleep... marina didn't manage any at all... at 10:30 we got our tix and then went out to marina's cousins place to crash for a few hours! thank goodness... how bad would it be to wait in line all night to get tix just to fall asleep during the performance?? as for the performance itself, i would say one of the best pieces of theater i've ever seen.
. Seeing Ewan Mcgregor as Iago alone was worth freezing our butts off overnight!!! Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello was incredible as well... it was rivetting! Colin Farrel was in the audience too which was pretty kewl.. its amazing how many celebs you can spot on a night out in London... the crowd was pretty young and kinda swarmed him, poor guy...
as we were wandering the streets of london we also managed to acquire £60 each worth of casino vouchers!! we met this DJ who apparently locked his keys in his company car and long story short he needed a few quid so we gave him some change and in return he hooked us up with these vouchers... so we went and registered at the casino and scored a bunch more vouchers so we are looking forward to going gambling London style!
