I went to see a play.
That’s a bit unusual, but the trigger for this was that Captain Picard and Gandalf were doing a play together. I wasn’t really fussed on what the play was, just wanted to see these two do their thang.
Booked into the New Theatre Cardiff for the 3rd Sept, we booked the tickets ages ago, and they sold out fast – we also booke the room ages ago, and that was selling out fast also, which was odd. Once we decended into Cardiff we found out why.
The trip in was a toss up between driving and training, I went for the driving approach, which resulted in lots of swearing as the traffic was manic. Also all the car parks were turning people away, I had never seen that before, but we discovered that there was a monster truck festival in the Millennium (now Principality) stadium. We very luckily managed to get into the train station car park, and also just managed to scrape together the 10 pound coins it needed – how people manage to get 10 pound coins I don’t know.
As we were now late, after a late start and rubbish traffic we checked in, to be given Room 101 – a disabled room. The hotel is packed he said, “oh” we said in way of argument.
Checked in, and off for lunch – we wanted a burger, but ended up in the Cosy Club and had a load of tapas, it was great. Decent beer and pretty nice grub – it was (as usual) raining out.
After some food we did some (very unsuccessful) shoe shopping and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in Henrys reading and supping. Time flew and before we knew it we headed over to the theatre to get very warm and queue for a long time to get little drink, but 20 minutues later and the play began. Two hours later, after a very ot queue for a beer in the intermission, it finished.
My verdict? It was alright. It had a lot of words, and a lot of pauses, and some funny bits, and some extreme swearing, and it also had the guy from Game of Thrones and Stella in it (although I didn’t realise, as he had an awful London accent). I don’t think I liked the play, but it was an experience to see those two greats ply their trade.
After queuing to get out we had many beverages in a couple of pubs and staggered to a kebab place around 12:30, and scoffed in our room.
Next morning we wrongly decided to go to Bills for breakfast, and came home.