Two plays in two days

1. Hardy's sweet shop
2. Tower of London
3. Jamie's restaurant
4. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
5. Next day
6. Build-a-bear
7. More shopping around
8. Matilda

 

Tower Of London

At entering the Tower of London we strolled in a small room where we were given a badge, pencil and book with questions and a trail leading all over the tower. When walking through this trail you also be given facts by the book. Apart from the Louvre and Eiffel Tower, the Tower of London was the biggest thing I had seen in my life. It took my breath away (until I started chocking).Did you know that it's rumoured that if the ravens leave the castle it will fall. Now they keep a pet raven in a cage.The castle has three lines of defence. The first wall, where they pour boiling oil out the window for enemies to die a gruesome death (said my guidebook). The second wall where they shoot arrows from. Finally, I think you know what the third line of defence is, yes, the moat, Traitors lake. They use to drown "witches" down there. If you were accused of witchcraft you were tied up and thrown into the Lake. if you floated you were A witch and executed, but if you sunk and drowned, you were not a witch.......anyway, lets not talk about that.There used to be a small hidden entry until someone found it and a gate was ordered to be put in its place.What I learnt is that from all of this is that if you go sneaking into things many of its secrets will be revealed.Phew, so much information and I'm probably only a quarter of the way through it, so, I guess there's only one thing to do, tell you more, well, I wish I could, but now I have to head on to the Crown Jewels.

The Crown Jewels to me weren't actually that interesting. I don't really know why, maybe it's because I've seen too many monuments. I'd walk through it and check it out but I'm not all, "wow, woah, cool, yeah, OMG", about it. They wouldn't even let you try them on. I'd much rather go and play outside.. I was in luck. It turned out that we were leaving the tower and heading off to Jamie Oliver's restaurant and then to the play Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

After a wonderful meal at Jamie's Italian restaurant, we headed off down to see a preview performance of the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Shaftesbury Avenue, which is the most famous street in the West End theatre area. I think that Willy Wonka stole the show because he was such a good, funny actor. My mum really liked the Oompa Loompas beacuese of the way the created them. One part of the show that I really liked was when Charlie threw a paper aeroplane and it flew all the way up and went higher than the seats that were at the very top. I also liked how the backdrop changed every scene. In the middle of the show there was a fifteen minute intermission. I personally think that the second half was much better than the first. The second half was all about the characters in the factory and how each of the golden ticket winners (sadly our ticket wasn't golden) (except for Charlie) died greedily. I think the actors must have tried really hard. It was extremely convincing. At the end of this play the entire audience stood for a standing ovation.

Speaking of the end this was also the end of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now Matilda.

 

Matilda

When we got there it was much busier than Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Probably because it wasn't the previews. Inside it wasn't that busy though. Did you know that at Matilda's school the motto they have means "children are maggots". There were four actors playing Matilda. I understand that they might be tired so they might need more than one. The play went on for three hours. Half way through there was a twenty-five minute intermission. Finally at the very end we felt like staying and watching it all again.

I actually preferred Charlie to Matilda because I had listened to the Matilda soundtrack for three months before and I knew exactly what was going to happen, whereas Charlie was a complete surprise for me.

At the end of the show it was really late.

“Well late enough to fall asleep in five minutes” I thought afterwards.