I was just reading on a Who forum, about the RSC auction in London this coming Tuesday. Wow, cost is the equivilent of about $1600 a ticket...in a recession, no less. Nice to know not every Briton is hurting for money.
I haven't had $1600 of my own money, at one time, since 2004. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Anyway, it's to be a brillant evening...well, for $1600 it darn well better be, ey?
There's to be a performance by David Tennant, fan-girls, a soliiquy (gah--I can't spell any more, arrgh!) by Mr. Tennant from Love's Labour's Lost, also Patrick Stewart will be there, Derek Jacobi and a host of other top notch totally talented Shakespearean performers from the RSC.
Highlight of the evening is an auction. Up for grabs:
A script from Dr Who, signed by all the actors.
Dinner on stage with two of the cast members from Hamlet--could one of them be Tennant, fan-girls? (oh, I can just hear some of them swooning at the thought of dinner with david, god help us)
six tickets to Hamlet
A private performance by RSC members at the winning bidders home, and more.
Gosh, wouldn't that be brilliant. Times like this, I can truthfully say that POVERTY SUCKS.
Well, it's for a really good cause--next to helping the poor, the elderly, the sick, animals, kids and the environment, I think helping the arts is pretty darn important, as well, so certainly I would hardly begrudge the RSC their fund-raiser. Matter of fact if I had a dollar--which I don't, I just spent my last three dollars on the milk and butter which I forgot to buy--I'd give it to the RSC. I knew about them long before I'd ever heard of Tennant (through one of my college courses) and was impressed by their dedication from the get-go.
So, if like me, the RSC gala is way out of your league, I hope you will still consider--if you can at all spare it, giving a pound or two to the RSC, to help keep one of Briton's--no, the world's--great traditions alive.
