Around noon on Friday, I decided to go the theatre here in Dublin. I saw She stoops to Conquer and it was so funny. It was written around 1774 and was still relevant in its way. I feel like some of the jokes went over my head because I'm not Irish though. It was quite an adventure getting to the theatre, I walked around for 15-20 minutes trying to find the entrance to the theater. I the future I won't put nearly as much trust in google maps. Once I was settled in my seat in the back of the theater the director came on stage, which is not all that unusual when seeing shows in Denver. However he announced some bad news: one of the actresses, a main-ish character, had had a family emergency that day. As they have no understudy system there had been a bit of question about what to do. They had called in another actress that day and she performed the whole thing with the book in her hand. Except for the book itself, her performance was fabulous. She was able to turn what could've been disastrous to a fun story. After the play I had to walk quite a ways to find the bus stop and caught the second to last bus home of the night.
Today I went with a couple of my roommates to the flea market and the Dublin Food Co-op. It was a lot of fun and I got a 1903 copy of macbeth, which I'm very excited about. The Food Co-op was very hipster and very Boulder, which I found amusing. We grabbed a late lunch, Falafel. I was delicious and very filling. It was really nice to eat something I hadn't cooked, especially good greek food. We meandered our way back to the center of town slowly after we ate. We went in the general direction we needed to go whilst also going down whatever street took our fancy. I saw a lot of Dublin today and had a great time doing it. For more pictures check out the photo archive.
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