Big Wide World

This weekend Kelly and I drove to Stratford Ontario for the weekend for the Stratford Festival. it was great. We saw "Coriolanus" with Colm Feore

Great actor this guy.



The play is by Shakespeare, and one of his lesser know plays. its a great play about the things that shakespeare writes about best (relationships, revenge, hate, love, valour, pride, society, etc). I highly recommend the play. Its actually quite a hard play in the sense that you can never really get a grasp of coriolanus, do you like him, do you hate him, is he a good guy wronged by bad people, or is he too proud and maybe he deserves what he gets.

anyway, like most of the great shakespearean characters, its a fine line between protagonist and antagonist.

So, since we were in stratford, we had decided that staying over was probably a good idea. hand with the after theatre crowd, go to a restaurant, have some drinks. now, this part was a little frustrating, since, um, there doesn't appear to be an after theatre crowd. all of a sudden, the street got real empty and in downtown Stratford, there was almost noone to be heard. so we went into an irish pub, had some dinner and drinks, and headed off to our Sketchy(?) hotel.

the hotel wasn't that bad, but it was a little musky and well, not worth the $200/night that we paid for it (complimentary breakfast was a coffee, juice, and your pic of bagels, scones, or cinnamon buns). and, just to show you how sketchy this place was, there was something extra in our room when we woke up....

Anyways, besides the really big gross bug, and perhaps the sketchy hotel, it was a good time. Kelly and i are now going to bug a membership to the stratford festival, and hopefully go to at least one play a year (the membership gets you advance tickets, a newsletter, and a few other little perks, unless you want to invest about $200 and up, and then, well, the perks just keep on adding up, but i'm not prepared to surrender that much money). so hopefully, we'll be able to see colm in some more plays. i knew the guy from "Paycheck" "Titus" "Riddick" and a lot of other movies, but he's definately a great stage presence and i recommend that people see him in a shakespearean play.

so now i'm back, and its back to reality (school, work, chores, cleaning blah). Hope you had a great weekend.