Friday, May 8, 2009

Romeo and Juliet do Acid

I've just gotten better from the worst case of food poisoning that i've ever had...but on the bright side it got me out of work and vietnamese for a day so it was totally worth it...because i didn't eat for three days i had some extra money lying around and decided that i should at least be a little cultured so i bought tickets to romeo and juliet (in english with Vietnamese subtitles...yes a play has subtitles) and for the ballet tonight (we'll see how that goes)...i was so freakin excited to see this play...it was done by a british acting troup doing a world tour...i should have known the play was doomed the minute i walked into the lobby and saw plastic chairs (that or the fact that it had subtitles should have given it away)...so lets just count the signs of doomdom before the play even started...number 1 the play has subtitles...number 2 white lawn chairs in the lobby...number 3 the camera crew seemed overly excited to see a white girl buying tickets for a play and immeadiately started filming me (note: i've also been filmed standing in line, giving a fake interview, and folding brochures-they filmed me folding brochures for 20 mins...i'm somewhat convinced i'm a vietnamese television star)...number 4 pyrotechnics (they shot off sparklers both inside and outside the theater right before the show started which in an all wood building that looks like it's about 100 years overdue for a fire inspection is nowhere close to safe)...number 5 the massive number of mosquitos swarming in the theater...number 6 RED SEQUINS EVERYWHERE...so i chose to ignore all these fab warning signs and settled in for one of my favorite plays with a very buff romeo (i had to pee before the show started so i got a sneak peek of the actors doing warm ups...boys=no good faces but OMG ABS)...it started off okay with the vietnamese people being a little horrified by any sexual innuendo and the stripper fab 13 year old girls sitting behind us bursting into hysterics anytime anything was the least bit sexual...it had promise...then all of sudden people started dancing and singing and this guy with a weird ass mask comes out holding a skull and i was lik whaaaa...i choose to ignore it...focus on what a terrible actress juliet was and try to figure out a way to meet mercuitio after the performance...then all of a sudden romeo apparently goes on a bad acid trip and statues start moving and dancing and singing and the weird ass death guy comes back...this goes on for the entire show...it was horrible...i wanted to cry...they ruined romeo and juilet unforgiveable...i have tickets to the ballet tonight...dear god please let it be good

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