Hi everyone,
Today we woke up like zombies, all looking really tired and unattractive from our 6 hours sleep after watching The Tempest by the Royal Shakespeare Company, except for Dr Irving who looked 35,
and caught the tube to the Victoria and Albert museum (V&A). The V&A is the largest museum of applied arts in the world and we went on 2 seperate tours of the museum, the first an interactive of the history of performance and the second a general tour.
The performance tour taught us of the roles of the producer, promoters, stage designers and costume designers. We saw a recreation of Kylie Minogues dressing room and tried on some traditional acting costumes, not hers. We looked at the apsects of promotion and the effectiveness of these factors. Costumes on display included The Lion King, Adam Ant, Elton John and Mick Jagger. There was also dioramas of set designs of Sweeney Todd, Don Giovani (which we are seeing later in France), Hamlet and many more.
The general tour of the museum took us through galleries filled with artifacts ranging from Tudor to Victorian eras. There were many prints, ceramics, furniture, clothingm jewellery, relics, stained glass, paintings and metalwork on display.
A highlight of the trip for many of the girls was the jewellery collection and the costumes.
Other galleries we explored included the Chinese, Japanese, and Middle East sections.
Jack
Today we woke up like zombies, all looking really tired and unattractive from our 6 hours sleep after watching The Tempest by the Royal Shakespeare Company, except for Dr Irving who looked 35,
and caught the tube to the Victoria and Albert museum (V&A). The V&A is the largest museum of applied arts in the world and we went on 2 seperate tours of the museum, the first an interactive of the history of performance and the second a general tour.
The performance tour taught us of the roles of the producer, promoters, stage designers and costume designers. We saw a recreation of Kylie Minogues dressing room and tried on some traditional acting costumes, not hers. We looked at the apsects of promotion and the effectiveness of these factors. Costumes on display included The Lion King, Adam Ant, Elton John and Mick Jagger. There was also dioramas of set designs of Sweeney Todd, Don Giovani (which we are seeing later in France), Hamlet and many more.
The general tour of the museum took us through galleries filled with artifacts ranging from Tudor to Victorian eras. There were many prints, ceramics, furniture, clothingm jewellery, relics, stained glass, paintings and metalwork on display.
A highlight of the trip for many of the girls was the jewellery collection and the costumes.
Other galleries we explored included the Chinese, Japanese, and Middle East sections.
Jack
It's rather ironic that you saw Atom Ant's costume at the V&A Museum because we saw him at Perth Airport when you were leaving. He was travelling on your Emirates flight after performing at the Astor Theatre and on the Adam Hill show. We barely recognised him without his costume and make-up.
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