The Trip: Day 15; If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?
Day 15
Fairfax County, Virginia
On Tuesday, we had a real treat; we went to the Shakespeare Theater in D.C., for The Merchant Of Venice. Now, normally I don't care for Shakespeare set in modern dress, à la Kenneth Branagh's film version of Richard III. I think it's a stupid idea and totally unnecessary. If they want to do it in modern dress they should do a totally different movie, like The Taming Of The Shew, à la 10 Things I Hate About You. But, in this case I wasn't totally turned off by it, probably because the lady who played Portia did so phenomenally well that I almost didn't notice she was speaking 16th century English in 1920's dress.
Fairfax County, Virginia
On Tuesday, we had a real treat; we went to the Shakespeare Theater in D.C., for The Merchant Of Venice. Now, normally I don't care for Shakespeare set in modern dress, à la Kenneth Branagh's film version of Richard III. I think it's a stupid idea and totally unnecessary. If they want to do it in modern dress they should do a totally different movie, like The Taming Of The Shew, à la 10 Things I Hate About You. But, in this case I wasn't totally turned off by it, probably because the lady who played Portia did so phenomenally well that I almost didn't notice she was speaking 16th century English in 1920's dress.
BELOW: Julia Coffey. Played Portia in The Merchant of Venice.
But that was in the evening. That morning we took a trip to the Potomac Mills Outlet Mall in Woodbridge, Virginia to look for clothes for my mom. After that, we stopped at the Red Robin across the street. I had never been to Red Robin before...it is good. A tiring day, but capped off by a great performance.
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