Day Eight - Our First Performance, Seeing Our Town, and The Tattoo

8/5/2014

First - not really related to this post directly, I though folks back home might want to see the view from outside the hall window where we are staying. We are in a really beautiful place. That, of course, is the low side of Arthur's Seat.

Everyone looked much more rested this AM. Most of us had a later breakfast today, then got ready for our fist performance. Once we arrived at the theatre, we had a little extra time, so the kids went out to busk the street that the theatre is on for 15 minutes before the show. We had a nice audience - students from another school that were very vocal, and a whole lot of seniors from the neighborhood who were quiet, but very impressed - at both the kids and by how much Shakespeare we cram into such a short show. Several of them approached me to tell me how much they had enjoyed themselves. Mr K and I were both the house crew and the mandatory fire watchers. Here are a few shots of the performance...

Once we returned, we quickly went back to the spot we had rehearsed at previously and we went through our Royal Mile performance routine that we will be doing tomorrow afternoon, then all went back to their rooms to change before we headed out to see Louisville: Our Town. The play was a devised theatre piece that used Thornton Wilder's Our Town as the starting point. Many of the scenes expressed similar points of view as his play, but it was personalized to the lives of these performers.

After dinner, we then went to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. WOW! What a show. I don't think anything I can post can really show the grandeur of the whole production. Oh, and by chance, Janet and Charles Prior had tickets for tonight as well!