Today after
lunch we went to Stratford-upon-Avon by train. We visited William Shakespeare’s
Birthplace. His father had a large house for he worked the leather
manufacturing gloves basically. In the house we saw his father’s workshop but
also the different rooms in the house, the bedrooms with several beds and one
single wardrobe and the fireplace for heating the rooms in the cool of winter.
We went into the gardens very big and pretty nice with lots of flowers. There
were some actors that were playing short speeches from Shakespeare’s works.
Today they were playing parts of Hamlet.
Then we
went to The Swam Theatre built in 1879 but keeps the atmosphere of the old
theatres as The Globe in London were Shakespeare started playing as actor and
representing his owns plays. There we were able to wear some clothes from
different characters in his plays. We looked very nice ready to go to the stage
and perform… But we were not ready because we had no texts by Shakespeare at
hand.
In town we
had some time for us to walk and see other places and shops. It was a very
special nice day.
Joan.
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