Because I forgot about it last week...

I do believe we were meant to post if we'd done something deemed cultural in our spare time such as go to the theatre or pay a visit to the cinema. Well, like a nonce, I forgot and thought I should add some more to my sorry looking blog.

Last monday, the 8th feb, I went to the theatre something I class as fairly middlebrow culture depending on what you see. well what I went to see, essentially isn't usually classed as middlebrow culture, I went to see the Ballet, however what I saw was a 'reworking' if you like of the classic, Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake'. This newer version is the brain-child of Matthew Bourne and is more contemporary ballet meaning it's not all leaps, straight lines and lady's in tutu's, than classical ballet. Some puritans may think it sacrilege to go about changing something so well known and loved into something that will appeal to and feel more accessible to the 'masses' but I don't care because to put it simply, it was awesome. It was clever, had some well placed comedic moments that were still in keeping with the tone of an essentially tragic tale and had some social comment moments that reflect the times we live in. A truly modern take on an old masterpiece that works as it keeps bringing audiences back after making the rounds for the last 15 years so it must be doing something right. Anywho, that's a cultural experience of mine....

Also, I've no idea if this counts too, but yesterday, tuesday 16th feb, I visited Stratford-Upon-Avon, a lovely place if you've ever been, and well was generally nerdy along with my mother of all people and spent the day being a bit of a tourist and a culture vulture visiting the many sites around the area associated with Shakespeare himself. Again something that I suppose is middlebrow culture as well, Shakespeare's works are know, loved, admired and studied by people of all academic, cultural, social and class backgrounds. All I know is that it was fun and we made a little girl stare at us in a funny manor by giggling at the audio/visual piece about his life and when being asked if we'd like to take a walk through the 'Shakespeare Hall of Fame' stating 'Does anyone else feel like they should do the 'Monty Python' gallop down said hall of fame?' I guess you never grow up no matter how old you are = ]