Cherry Dessert Day/Bob Day/International Jazz Day
2007-05-26 @ 11:49 p.m.

Caught The Stage Club's performance of Macbeth in the afternoon. Not that I'm sexist or anything, but I really don't think I want to teach in a girls' school in the future. There was this kid playing Fleance (Banquo's son), and admittedly, he was a real good-looking kid, which accounts for the giggling and squealing of the predominantly female audience every time he came onstage. (They were from some girls' school, but I didn't quite catch the name when it was announced before the play began.) Even so, I thought the adulation a tad excessive. Blame it on hormones? There was a Q&A session after the performance, presumably for the benefit of the students. Some decent questions, but some really inane ones. Like asking what was in the bag containing Macbeth's "head" in the final scene. Paul Hannon, who played Banquo, replied that it was probably a bloodied cabbage. I'm surprised no one asked Mr and Mrs McConnell what it was like for them to act opposite each other. The last time I saw them do that was in Never The Sinner, which coincidentally also featured Paul Hannon. Overall, I thought the production was okay, but it was kind of hard to make out some of the actor's accents, partly because I've never read Macbeth and couldn't anticipate the dialogue. Bummed around in the Queenstown library before cell because there wasn't enough time to head down to Orchard, and borrowed a couple of books, including a Greg Egan novel, Schild's Ladder. I love Egan's work, so I think it's a shame it isn't more readily available here.