Brown Girl in London

Last night HD and I went to see Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. It was totally cool! The show was at 8pm and we arrived at the park around 7:15pm so we had some time to wander and around and sit by the fountain.

Regent's Park is absolutely beautiful. It's massive too! It's not just a large mowed lawn with some random trees here and there. No, there's a river that runs through parts of it, bridges to walk over, a gazebo to do who know what in, trees of all different types, flower beds everywhere, benches to sit on - I mean it's a park so it's got all the park things - and it's all landscaped very prettily. It has a very calm feeling there even though there were quite a few people in the park.The Open Air Theatre isn't very large, so it has a nice intimate feeling. Being outdoors is an experience I'd recommend, there's something cool about watching a play while the sun goes down and then seeing how the technical lighting takes over and creates an ambient mood. It was a long play and I didn't get up to stretch my legs at the interval, neither did HD, so by the end of it we had slightly sore bums.

I'd go again for sure - but there's no point in getting the £20 tickets - might as well just go for the £10 since those were the seats probably right behind us! A lesson for next time.