I no longer despise Shakespeare! Went to see King Lear with a friend and it was stellar. Tickets that included seats were very expensive, but the plebeian option of standing in the yard (for three hours) for 5-pounds was affordable, wonderful, and cramp-inducing. It was a great show and only rained as the bodies started lining the stage (ie: the very end). Three hours is a long time to stand. Imagine if we had to take our SATs standing up - they even patrolled it and glared angrily, "please sir, I must advise you that standing in the Yard in compulsory!". Seeing it performed well, in Elizabethan English, with no technology, sound effects or microphones was great. Except for the jets flying overhead and the occasional chirp of mobile phones, I could've been transported back to the 17th century (oh, and there were women on stage).
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