June 3 - National Gallery, "Romeo & Juliet"

  

Today was a really great day, despite a bit of rain.

    We started by taking two busses to the National Gallery where we focused on some Medieval art and on the Impressionists. As it was raining, we chose to eat at the cafe there.

The food was really good and not expensive.

      We then walked to see a matinee performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre, a nice small theater. While we have all read and seen the play before, this was memorable. The actors, especially the two leads, were excellent.

Sadie Sink, 24, who played Juliet, was a child actor and is well known by the younger generation for her role in Stranger Things on television. Similarly, ___, 21, who played Romeo was a child actor and was recently in the film Hamnet with his younger brother. (He played Hamlet in the final scene when his mother sees him in stage.) The ending was especially memorable and emotional as the audience sees the white-clad, dead Juliet stands up as we see what could have been had the lovers lived - a baby in Romeo's arms, a dancing child, an aged couple dancing. It brought tears to many eyes.

   

  We took a bus home and ate at ___ on the docks and had delicious tacos.