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Plus side: Imperial War Museum had a nice exhibit on Women and War; pictures and letters were the most interesting. While focusing on British women in the world wars, the exhibit included the fascination of earlier generations with women who'd passed themselves off as men to fight in the American Civil War and Revolution. My favorite was a Brit, Dr. James Barry, became a doctor, served in the British Navy? and her sex was uncovered only upon death.
Other pluses: Anything Goes, but then I adore musicals, and although an oldie, this was an enjoyable rendition of Cole Porter's music, PG Wodehouse's writing (the original also was written to feature Guy Bolton and Ethel Merman).
Tragedy: Mourning Becomes Electra opens with Helen Mirren just as my flight leaves the UK. Damn. The double-damn goes to missing both The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed twice. It played in DC at year's end and opens shortly in London.
Comedy: The Reduced Shakespeare Company's does 37 plays in 97 minutes.
London Bridge (version x) still stands, the people are polite, the food comestible, and no one has attempted to run me down.
Posted at January 2, 2004 02:10 PMI love the Reduced Shakespeare Company. I think I saw the 37 plays one when they were DC last year??
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