In October 2022 I was in London to see the event "Madly Deeply: The Celebration of Alan Rickman" (+ a book launch of his diaries), some places connected to him in London and Juliet Stevenson's theatre play! :D
So of course that I want to have a description of this on my blog! :D
I went to see those events together with some other fans and these descriptions, that I'll post here, are already on a sort of public place (public can have access, access is not controlled as far as I know) and/but I thought that it would be the best to post it here in the form in which it's there and anonymize it as much as I can. Because now I'm confused about some things, if I interpret/interpreted some things that happened correctly, so I'm not active on that place and/but there were really nice things so I thought that my aforementioned solution would be the best. :)
1 October 2022 - part 2
This is finally about the evening during which we saw the play The Doctor with Juliet Stevenson! 😊
Then I had to quickly get ready. Our ??? meeting was close to the theatre at 19:00 = half a hour before the play was to start. I tried to be as fast as possible but I left the hotel room 10 or more minutes after I should’ve to get there until our meeting time (but still in time for the performance). During travelling I nervously checked the time. I had 2 options – one was to walk longer to the theatre and it seemed as an easy way and the second was to travel by another line but it meant that I would’ve had to quickly find the way to the right train and which train to travel with but it was faster and with less traffic lights to slow me down and I had several minutes to find the train. So I chose the 2nd option! And I got on the right train! So that was calming.When I got out I think that I was confused a bit but I found the way! Another ladies from our ??? group were already in theatre.
And then I saw the building! There was a few people outside and I somehow saw a gentleman who checked the tickets so I found it in my phone and I didn’t try to search it in my handbag. He let me in! Then there was employee who wanted to look inside of my bag which I allowed him to do.
Then I was in beautiful hallway but I didn’t look around much because of time. I quickly found the way to stalls and went there. I was actually in the theatre and about to see The Doctor with Ms. Stevenson and sit next to others from ???!
I was so nervous about everything lol.
I ran up, I even sometime said the letters of the rows out loud. And then I looked up and here they/you were! 😄 I had my mask on but I decided to put it off during greeting. I was happy that we hugged or touched. I jumped a bit on Fan 1, who had already been my friend for some time.
I was nervous and happy to see everyone and to be here.
I sat between Fan 2 and Fan 3. And I was happy that dear friendly Fan 2 started talking to me and we talked a lot! 😄 During sitting there I also noticed that Fan 3, another ??? member who sat next to me, is very elegant, also the way she holds herself, I hope that you know. 😊
I remembered to bring my glasses which was fine because it posed a chance that I would see some details which I wanted! But it wasn’t nice a bit because I don’t like wearing them, I don’t like how they look at me. I like only sunglasses (but then, I don’t wear them because I don’t want to have tan lines). But maybe a different shape and transparent frames would help. I don’t want to wear contact lenses because I’m afraid of them. But at one point I found out that they were not enough and that I would’ve needed something more strong. Fan 2 pointed out that there were special tools in the seets that one could get for a pound? But I didn’t have it and so didn’t she and I didn’t try to solve it more.
Then at some point I noticed a lady at the other side holding a sign but I didn’t see it properly because half was covered by people’s heads.
And then it started! I both could and couldn’t understand that it was there, that I was sitting next to others from ??? and watching The Doctor with Ms. Stevenson (and about to be at the BFI event the next day)!
I was happy that I heard and understood them a lot (when I saw videos of other plays, for example Seminar with Mr. Rickman, I didn’t sometime so I was worried about it). Well, it maybe was good that there was a desk with probably sound director behind us but I guess that the sound was great everywhere.
I was paying attention to the story but sometime I was overwhelmed by things that I’ve already described and I tried to enjoy that I see Ms. Stevenson lol!!! 😄
Well, as you can see, I’m writing quite in detail and I don’t know how much I should write, if also about me wandering around confused (but I myself am interested in reading other’s diary entries, especially if I like someone and it’s about something interesting, and I’m interested in reading your detailed reports, so I write in detail too) etc. And now I would like to write some things but also the most I’d like to write just ❤️ because I feel it that way, that it describes the best.
But I will write more, also because I think that it would be right (and/but if I write less, then I won’t spoil it for you).
Everyone’s acting was great, I just believed them.
It seemed to me that more characters had good intentions and/but what happened, happened and that more of them had point in what they said and/but that there wasn‘t a perfect solution, the right answer, as it happens in real life. Oooh, the critiques of multiple professions which one could think that are necessary in general but that they might have or don’t have a point in this case… Words are not only words (and they have to be followed by action if it’s good)! Well, but there was something clear – that the anti-abortion character was wrong, professional abortions have to be available, and I found the politician character‘s point of view toxic. Oooh, the relationship between science and religion and the religion itself…
Oooh, what to do with someone, especially a professional who has some skills that can help, if he/she makes a mistake, behaves despicably (I don’t write that Ruth did a mistake, I mean it in general, but then, there couldn’t be a universal procedure sometime).
Oooh, what Sami said about the guy that she was seeing and their relationship/“relationship“… Oooh, other things… Well, Sami said that it was clear that Ruth was speaking about her?
The background of people’s actions and how it should or shouldn’t after all shape people’s approach to one another… Oooh, the need for compassion! I’ve read somewhere that we should replace „political correctness“ with „compassion“ and it’s true! And then it wouldn’t or shouldn’t be so easy to disregard and demean!
I would just suggest (but I don’t plan to write to them?) that it could be nice if they more intensively portrayed the fact that Ruth and Charlie were partners, their intimacy, closure. They could even go for a kiss if they would find it fitting, something that The Fantastic Beasts weren’t „brave“ enough to do (they didn’t much portray their relationship too and one may wonder how it would’ve looked like if they were heterosexual, maybe the same and/but it may be better if they portrayed it more when there’s a homosexual couple because I don’t think that they are in a lot of films that are produced now but then I haven’t watched many films and one could think about if one should or shouldn’t enhance this relationship more than they would’ve if it wasn’t this one, and/but they probably must have already thought about it and decided because of some reasons like the nature of those characters and I wanted to add or that maybe they chose not to do it because of worries about how the audience would take it but I think that this is not a reason in this case lol 😄).
And now I want to see in person(basically, I don’t suppose that there would be some that I wouldn’t like to see) every play with Ms. Stevenson!!! 😄
OK, so I’ve already spoiled my thoughts about the play band/but there was an intermissionduring the play and some things happened during it too! 😄
Sooo Ms. Stevenson stayed on the stage! So I excitedly put out my phone and with it freely visible with hands up I started trying to take a photo of her! Fan 2 noticed my actions and I saw that she stood up and that she was doing something that I didn’t understand and that she was saying something that I didn’t get and/but I finished taking a photo and then turned to her. And she told me that she was trying to cover me with herself so that it wouldn’t be visible that I was trying to capture a photo because it wasn’t allowed and that they would’ve told me off if they found out! A brave quick-witted lady! 😄
I was and still am, of course, thankful and I sent the photo to our discussion with a caption that said something like this and I showed it to Fan 2.
And I don’t know if I can show it here, please tell me. 😄
I was curious about what Ms. Stevenson was reading there (she was doing something on a phone) but then later I realized that she probably was „reading those comments of people“. And/but it would still be interesting what she read/did on the phone and/but maybe it wasn’t anything optimistic and/or maybe it was something normal.
Oooh and ladies from our ??? group started sharing reviews of their feelings of the climate (yes, a climate, but then it is a part of factors which create an atmosphere) in the hall. Fan 2 was sitting on S3 and she reported that she was cold because a cold wind was blowing on her. I think that Fan 1, who sat on S6, was reporting that she was feeling very hot. I was sitting on S4 and I was feeling good which I was and still am thankful for! 😄
So sweltering Fan 1 suggested a trip outside to which I happily added myself with the imagination of me having some refreshment outside and we went there, I think that also with someone else from our group, I’m sorry that I don’t remember now.
After some time we went back and we were informed that Ms. Stevenson also went somewhere out of stage and when we were returning we saw her coming back too! 😄 So I/we were/are so delighted that we didn’t miss anything, and/or some quality time that could be spent by looking at Ms. Stevenson sitting there. 😄
Before the play started again, now the lady with a sign was at our side and I think that there was an image of crossed camera on it.
After the end of the play we applauded and a lot of us including me stood up and we made the cast return back once. It could’ve been more times, and/or I would’ve been up for clapping longer and seeing them again lol.
Then we went somewhere in the theatre where we dressed up. And we agreed that we would wait for Ms. Stevenson, I wanted that and the others too! 😄 And some of the others from our group said that there were a few differences from when they saw it before. That Ms. Stevenson in the intermission was looking into the audience whereas this time not and at first I thought that it was a pity but then we realized that she wouldn’t have been „just“ looking as herself but as the character Ruth and it would’ve been probably unsettling and that at the ending she was even more expressive than this time (but it was still intense) so I was very thankful for that we had it calmer!
Then I put out my notebook that fit into my hand bag that I took for this occasion with my favourite pen. But it was a blue one and not a felt-tip pen (but I still took it because I wanted it and I didn’t find a black marker) so we were trying to find a felt-tip pen but those who had pens had those like mine. 😄
Then when we went outside, Fan 1 stopped at the ticket office? and she bought me a programme of the play because she thought that it would be better than my notebook (I didn’t notice that there was this option or I would’ve done it myself if I was there first) and after I spotted that I immediatelly gave her the amount of money for it that I had (£5 banknote, I didn’t have coins and since then I owe her £1 – could you please give me your bank account number or what about hopefully me giving it to you in person in future? But then, why didn’t I give you £10 banknote instead of that which I had, I don’t understand, I’m sorry!)
So we went outside in front of the building in front of the street with stage doors!
And I just remember that I/we had extreme amounts of fun! 😄 During my stay I was laughing and squeeing around a lot. And I remember that at one point I was hugging Fan 1 with my right hand and reaching for others with my another hand but we were interrupted by something.
We were talking and some time taking care that those of us who wandered into the road backwards (and kept doing that, I’ll leak who because I think that it can be the best for her – Fan 1 stay on the pavement) got onto the pavement again, especially before a car went by.
At some point some of actors who I didn’t know but who acted in this play went outside and some of our group ??? were talking to them.
After some time I became nervous about if we would catch the means of transport that we needed to get to our hotels/flat but I forgot that it was Saturday and after that day (and Friday I think) trains and the Tube is running during the night and it was Sunday after which they started not to run during the night. I was joking that maybe she hasn’t come out because she was eavesdropping but I see that it probably wasn’t a reason.
Some time we were taking photos of ourselves and this is the one that I have on my phone! 😄
(photo)
Someone unknown took it.
At some point we stood in front of the stage doors in that way that I was turned to it with my back. After some time the others said that I should turn around! So I got very stressed (and excited) and did it! And/but it was dark and some of us, at least me, are shortsighted so after some time of looking we found out that it were some other people. So we were talking that poor them that people look at them excitedly and then sometime they recognize that it was not who they were waiting for and it shows but that they also have to be accustomed to this. And we were also talking about that we had practised how we would react. 😄
And then they said that I should turn around now! 😄 And it was her! 😄 Ms. Stevenson! 😄
Others had already told those things that can be interesting for you, so you know it and I remember my interactions with her but I’d like to just write a ❤️ because I feel it that way and I see it as personal.
I WANTED TO HUG HER!!!!! But I was shy! AND I STILL WANT TO HUG HER!!!!!
And we have a photo with The Lady thanks to Fan 2, yay! 😄
Then, interestingly enough, we went away while looking back.
I think that it was in the next street that I was jumping a bit lol and then after some time, others were happy too. We went in front of Private Lives stage doors and we tried to take photos of ourselves here but the phone wasn’t working at first! And I was blinking a lot in the time of taking photos and I don’t know how I managed to do that in the time a lot.
At some time we went closer to a Tube station. We walked around a club that was known for some reason. Fan 1 tried to get in, then walked away and then disappeared inside! And she was there for some time! We were wondering what she was doing there, at first from some distance, then we tried to investigate. Then we saw her coming to us. She told us that she was trying to get us their programme because the club was interesting for some reason and I didn’t understand why much, I’m sorry, could you tell us again please? 😄
It was raining a bit and we came across some renovated buildings that others saw during their stay before in reconstruction.
I was interested in getting food and drinks and we came around a McDonald’s that looked closed but then open but I/we didn’t go in and I don’t remember why now, maybe there was a lot of weird guys.
We split and me and Fan 1 went into the Tube station. When we were inside we saw a map between the platforms (that is there on the wall on some stations) and she explained to me which train I should use when and why and it made sense lol. Then we hugged and traveled by trains to our hotels that we needed.
So I see that I wrote one paragraph about me getting ready in this post but I won’t write another because I think that it shouldn’t be here in this post and it’s not much interesting, only that the ladies from our group ??? told me that the area where my hotel was located was not a place to spend time standing in the night and that I should go right to my hotel and that they got this experience when they were in a park and I wasn’t going into any and I made it to the hotel and around a restaurant full of screaming drunk people (I think that it was this night) to my room! 😄
Update: Oooh, I forgot to add that we were talking about if Ms. Stevenson will be at the BFI event tomorrow because it didn't look like it was for sure because she had the play. Now I think that I got confused when I was searching on the internet that I thought that I found that someone can alternate her so I was hopeful but that it was a different play but ladies from our group had a point when they said that it's her face on posters, it's her play, she's the main star. I/we were hoping that she would still make it for a while and when I was at the hotel I happily said to myself that it could be fantastic that tomorrow we'd hopefully see her again! 😄
I don't know if it's apparent so I would like to say that I'm very thankful for many things including the fact that I could be at this event, meet Ms. Stevenson, meet you, I enjoyed it and I feel deeply about things.
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