Well, it's 14 hours in all. 7 hours there, 7 hours back. Still long, but not quite as crazy-ass long as that. ;)
Stratford has a different theater layout than the Novello--it's more circular, more open at the ceiling, and the stage is down in the center. So it was more three-dimensional than it was in the Novello. I was sitting in one of the really cheap seats way up in a corner, which was actually kind of great, though, since it let you see the entire stage set-up really clearly. I found my recap, in case you're interested. It's got a (crappy) picture of the stage design of Love's Labour's Lost, which might give you an idea of what the theater looks like.
I can't actually say if they did any script changes for the Novello run, since the understudy version had a bunch of scenes taken out that were just entirely Tennant and wouldn't have worked with the understudy. So yeah, the play I saw at the Novello was different, but that might have been because it didn't have Tennant in it.
LLL was INCREDIBLY HILARIOUS. It's in my recap as well. I'd read the play beforehand, and laughed my ass off, but it was nothing compared to seeing Tennant doing the lines. It was pretty mind-blowing.
I am going to be a creep now and say that WE SHOULD MEET. At least for a cup of coffee. Who knows when you're going to be in the UK next. I can come to London and we can be awkward at one another. Or you can come down to Southampton and get free coffee at the place where I work. Or you can tell me to shove off; I won't take that the wrong way, either. (Seriously, not trying to be creepy. I just love to actually meet the people I talk to on my journal, so I usually take every opportunity I can get to do so. But if you're uncomfortable with that, I absolutely understand.)
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Stratford has a different theater layout than the Novello--it's more circular, more open at the ceiling, and the stage is down in the center. So it was more three-dimensional than it was in the Novello. I was sitting in one of the really cheap seats way up in a corner, which was actually kind of great, though, since it let you see the entire stage set-up really clearly. I found my recap, in case you're interested. It's got a (crappy) picture of the stage design of Love's Labour's Lost, which might give you an idea of what the theater looks like.
I can't actually say if they did any script changes for the Novello run, since the understudy version had a bunch of scenes taken out that were just entirely Tennant and wouldn't have worked with the understudy. So yeah, the play I saw at the Novello was different, but that might have been because it didn't have Tennant in it.
LLL was INCREDIBLY HILARIOUS. It's in my recap as well. I'd read the play beforehand, and laughed my ass off, but it was nothing compared to seeing Tennant doing the lines. It was pretty mind-blowing.
I am going to be a creep now and say that WE SHOULD MEET. At least for a cup of coffee. Who knows when you're going to be in the UK next. I can come to London and we can be awkward at one another. Or you can come down to Southampton and get free coffee at the place where I work. Or you can tell me to shove off; I won't take that the wrong way, either. (Seriously, not trying to be creepy. I just love to actually meet the people I talk to on my journal, so I usually take every opportunity I can get to do so. But if you're uncomfortable with that, I absolutely understand.)