{"id":6405,"date":"2024-10-11T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:45:21","slug":"uk-2024-london-day-1-the-duchess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/10\/uk-2024-london-day-1-the-duchess\/","title":{"rendered":"UK 2024: London Day 1 – The Duchess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You can see the Lord Nelson statue on the right edge of the photo. Love that we got a double decker bus behind us ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t think I’ve seen a more-serious play like this since I was in high school.\u00a0The Duchess<\/em> is based on The Duchess of Malfi, <\/em>a 1623 play by a Shakespeare contemporary: John Webster. Really really dark.<\/p>\n

This play reimagines the setting into the 1950s, but most of the dialogue is preserved. The Trafalgar Theatre is a small intimate venue and I might have been fangirling a little at getting to see Jodie Whittaker perform live.<\/p>\n

The theater is adjacent to Trafalgar Square, it was cool to walk around it at sunset just before the show.<\/p>\n

#travelswithdaveandpatricia ??????<\/p>\n

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The playbill had an insert of trigger warnings! ???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is the National Gallery. Alas, we didn’t have time to visit it on this trip — another time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I don’t think I’ve seen a more-serious play like this since I was in high school.\u00a0The Duchess is based on The Duchess of Malfi, a 1623 play by a Shakespeare contemporary: John Webster. Really really dark. This play reimagines the setting into the 1950s, but most of the dialogue is preserved. The Trafalgar Theatre is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t