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Twelth night The Cottesloe Theatre

from Maggie and Olivia | Feb 28, 2010 Maggie and Olivia

Why why why have I never been to watch a Shakespeare play ????
Well I'm sure  this is the start of something new so thank you ABC.
The afternoon was so enjoyable chatting with the other parents and watching our children from Hackney enjoy such a wonderful play. When I asked Olivia what she enjoyed, her reply was the music, singing and the very creative masks. I then asked her did she understand the story, her reply was of course I did mum. So that leaves me to change !!!!! Do I think the language should be changed and updated ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! I have just started and would feel sad if something so unique may be lost in our future.
Isn't it a wonderful thing to learn new things about our old English language even at my ripe old age !!! Seeing the  play has put many questions that I just felt the need to know,  such as why the  title The Twelth night and why do I only go to the Hackney Empire ( which is fab by the way ). Must get out more especially now me and my daughter have a new found interest.
                                                    Maggie and Olivia thank you



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written by nickcan, March 01, 2010
OH MY WORD!!!! HOW BRILLIANT. Maggie and Olivia you have made everything worthwhile. Please keep seeing theatre and especially Shakespeare - he is marvellous with his poetry!
aoife and muireann
thank you!
written by aoife and muireann, March 01, 2010
thanks for blogging about this Maggie - we ended up not going (which was a big pity) because Mim was not well) so it was good to hear about it. see you soon! smilies/smiley.gif

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