Seattle Day 2 lol
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evila_elfI need to stop putting off updating! I still haven't updated about the rest of my Seattle trip, and I am kinda starting to forget all the little details :-/
So, I guess I will do that now.
Already told about Friday....
So Saturday, Michelle, Gin, and I went to go see the play Uncle Vanya. It started out a little shaky, but I really started to enjoy it!
Here is a synopsis:
Uncle Vanya is set on a country estate some time towards the end of the 19th century. Aleksandr Serebryakov, a retired university professor, has moved there with his second wife, Yelena. For the past 25 years, the estate has been managed by Vanya, the brother of the professor’s deceased first wife, and the professor’s daughter, Sonya (Vanya’s niece), who has been living on the estate since her father’s remarriage. Out of respect for the professor’s position and learning, Vanya has willingly undertaken the management of the estate for a token annual salary. However, while the professor has been living with them, Vanya has become increasingly disillusioned; all he now sees is an old man afflicted with aches and pains, married to a beautiful and much younger wife—to whom Vanya himself would have proposed some years previously, but let the chance slip, to his regret. The professor now symbolizes for Vanya the waste of his own life.
As if in revenge, Vanya seeks to declare his love for Yelena at every possible opportunity, much to her irritation. Yelena has also attracted the attention of Dr. Astrov, a local landowner who is passionate about the environment, and dulls his impatience with Russian provincialism in alcohol. Astrov, who has been called in to look after the professor, spends much of his time at the estate, neglecting his medical duties to be in Yelena’s presence. Sonya has been in love with Astrov for the past six years, secretly and quietly. When she asks Yelena to speak to Astrov on her behalf, the doctor misinterprets, and declares his own feelings for Yelena. Astrov makes an attempt to embrace her, which is interrupted by Vanya.
As these entanglements unfold, the professor announces his decision to sell the estate, setting the characters off on a series of events that culminate in scenes of unexpected comedy and profound emotion, masterfully interwoven by Chekhov in one of his greatest plays.
http://www.intiman.org/2007season/vanya.html
I swear, it had everything in it. Two of the females ran off to a bedroom with a bottle of wine, the guys seemed to be constantly flirting, there was some pencil joke that had me giggling (though I think I was the only one.
PLUS, Samantha Mathis was in it (she was in House as the lady poisoning her husband with gold) and Mark Nelson, who was in Invention of Love with RSL. (We didn't find that out until we were looking through the program)
And, if you wanted to see a pic of Gin and I:
http://michelleann68.livejournal.com/103030.html#cutid2
(I am the short one)
After the play, we all went out to dinner, then....*mind blanks* Umm....yeah. I don't think there was anything else that we did. Michelle and I watched the newest Dr. Who.
Will do day 3 in a bit :)
So, I guess I will do that now.
Already told about Friday....
So Saturday, Michelle, Gin, and I went to go see the play Uncle Vanya. It started out a little shaky, but I really started to enjoy it!
Here is a synopsis:
Uncle Vanya is set on a country estate some time towards the end of the 19th century. Aleksandr Serebryakov, a retired university professor, has moved there with his second wife, Yelena. For the past 25 years, the estate has been managed by Vanya, the brother of the professor’s deceased first wife, and the professor’s daughter, Sonya (Vanya’s niece), who has been living on the estate since her father’s remarriage. Out of respect for the professor’s position and learning, Vanya has willingly undertaken the management of the estate for a token annual salary. However, while the professor has been living with them, Vanya has become increasingly disillusioned; all he now sees is an old man afflicted with aches and pains, married to a beautiful and much younger wife—to whom Vanya himself would have proposed some years previously, but let the chance slip, to his regret. The professor now symbolizes for Vanya the waste of his own life.
As if in revenge, Vanya seeks to declare his love for Yelena at every possible opportunity, much to her irritation. Yelena has also attracted the attention of Dr. Astrov, a local landowner who is passionate about the environment, and dulls his impatience with Russian provincialism in alcohol. Astrov, who has been called in to look after the professor, spends much of his time at the estate, neglecting his medical duties to be in Yelena’s presence. Sonya has been in love with Astrov for the past six years, secretly and quietly. When she asks Yelena to speak to Astrov on her behalf, the doctor misinterprets, and declares his own feelings for Yelena. Astrov makes an attempt to embrace her, which is interrupted by Vanya.
As these entanglements unfold, the professor announces his decision to sell the estate, setting the characters off on a series of events that culminate in scenes of unexpected comedy and profound emotion, masterfully interwoven by Chekhov in one of his greatest plays.
http://www.intiman.org/2007season/vanya.html
I swear, it had everything in it. Two of the females ran off to a bedroom with a bottle of wine, the guys seemed to be constantly flirting, there was some pencil joke that had me giggling (though I think I was the only one.
PLUS, Samantha Mathis was in it (she was in House as the lady poisoning her husband with gold) and Mark Nelson, who was in Invention of Love with RSL. (We didn't find that out until we were looking through the program)
And, if you wanted to see a pic of Gin and I:
http://michelleann68.livejournal.com/103030.html#cutid2
(I am the short one)
After the play, we all went out to dinner, then....*mind blanks* Umm....yeah. I don't think there was anything else that we did. Michelle and I watched the newest Dr. Who.
Will do day 3 in a bit :)
