20190327&29_i1 My mostly-dark-and-grainy selfies with most of the cast of ”Shipwreck” at the Almeida Theatre, London, England

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Raquel Cassidy, Fisayo Akinade, Elliot Cowan (I think), Khalid Abdalla, Tara Fitzgerald, and Adam James (I think).
The siggies are from Raquel and Khalid. 🙂

So, the main objective of this London trip was to see Gillian Anderson in "All about Eve", but I like to throw in another play or two while I’m there. So I searched the What’s On Stage site for my other 50000 fave actors, and found that Khalid Abdalla (I’ve only liked him since 2006! :O ) was doing this "Shipwreck" play.

As a bonus, it had Tara Fitzgerald, who was in "The Englishman who went up a hill…", which is on my fave list as it’s in the genre Cozy British Movies. :B And last year I got into "Game of thrones". 😀

And around the time I saw the play it turned out that this Elliot Cowan guy was in "Alexander"! (Three major sandal movies came out in 2004, AFAIK… but "Alexander" was the only one with a heart. 🙂 Hmm, maybe I’ll watch it this weekend.)

Almeida is probably the most intimate little theatre I’ve been to. (And it had an earthen floor! And my ticket only cost like 10 pounds!) The seat I booked hadn’t looked spectacularly close to the stage on the map, but it turned out to be quite close IRL for some reason. The stage was just a simple circular platform, and the first row consisted of regular chairs placed around it. I eyed them from my seat, half envious, half relieved. Wow, imagine sitting that close! Although I would have felt a bit exposed… to the… stars… :B I like to hide in second row, that’s ideal…

10 s later an usher asked me: "Are you here on your own? We have a single leftover seat to fill in the first row."
Rat: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! YES!"

"Shipwreck", which was about Trump and stuff, was really funny. 😀 Not that I know much about politics, or understood everything… (And I hadn’t yet read "Fire and fury", which may have helped a bit.) But still. xD I even bought the script afterwards.

I spent some time hanging out in the lobby (on various days), hunting for selfies and siggies. There was no special stage door in a back alley – the actors came and went through the lobby, had hug fests with their friends, and went to hang out with them in the theatre bar. So the aforementioned intimacy level (HEHE, I DON’T MEAN THAT IN A PERVY WAY) extended throughout the theatre.

I tried not to bother my selfie victims excessively… Would have taken Khalid out for coffee, you know, but he seemed to be in a bit of a rush – or perhaps just freaked out by me. %D They were all gracious. AND Raquel (with whom I wasn’t familiar at all) spent a ton of time talking to a group of her fangirls. Then she continued with me, asking me questions and giving me hugs and everything. ^_^ She goes on the list of Least Intimidating Celebrities, as I informed her. 🙂 Ah, I’ll try to check out some of her work. Apparently she was in "Downton Abbey"; I’ve been meaning to watch that! :q The fangirls seemed to be really into "The worst witch". I had never heard of it, but maybe it’s good. 🙂

PS. At one point, I was just standing around as people were exiting the theatre. And Khalid stopped to greet some friends just a couple of meters away! One of them said "Heh, I’ve never heard you do an American accent before." Pffft, hadn’t watched "The kite runner", I see. :B In other news, I love Khalid’s voice and real accent. Would listen to him read the phone book. Kthx.

PPS. Lastly, damn the lack of a selfie-flash on that iPhone 5. Two months later, the phone died and I replaced it with an iPhone 7. Which has a selfie-flash. GNNNNAAAAAAAAHHHH. OH WELL YOU CAN KIND OF MAKE OUT FACES IN THESE SHOTS.

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