The weather had turned cooler and the morning walk around three quarters of the town walls was quite refreshing.  After the walk we stopped off for a cup of tea and then walked along the Shambles before having lunch.  One of the shops had some interesting bags and clothing which resulted in me getting a leather and suede rucksack as a birthday present.  It replaces one of the same proportions that had to be pensioned off a couple of years ago;  It started oozing brown goo out of the straps onto my clothing, so sadly it had to go!

The afternoon was spent in York Minster.  I still found it impressive even though I have visited before.  It is an amazing place.  Whilst I was there, I lit a candle in memory of my Dad.  Then I went back to the hotel to freshen up and relax, before going out for an evening meal.

On arrival the stage wasn’t set up because the theatre company had been caught up in traffic.  It gave us the unique opportunity to see the stage being set up and how it worked, which included a bit of audience participation to say if the audio was loud enough.

We had left the fishing umbrella up just in case; the people behind us said it was fine and they could still see the stage.  Then a strange rude man appeared and said “are you going to take that down or are we going to move”.  Hmm! why didn’t he just, say could you put the umbrella down please because we can’t see?  When I checked him out a little later he wasn’t even sat facing the stage.

Luckily the rain held off for the performance and only started up again once it had finished.

The performance was played for laughs and was magical, with the cast rushing of into the distant trees and running through the audience quite alarmingly at times.  The acting and characterisation were excellent, with only 5 actors to play all the parts.  It was a very modern take on the theme and very cleverly done.

Samuel Pepys had this to say about the play:

The most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life…