Tonight I attended my last play at the Folger Theatre, Cyrano. This was sort of the first of a bunch of lasts as my time in DC is quickly drawing to a close. The play was well acted with a relatively small cast, several of them who played multiple roles. It was pretty much a basic telling of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, so no major surprises. While the time period of the play was traditional, the language of the play contained lots of American idioms, which I felt kind of took away from it. One mildly interesting aspect was in the opening scene, which takes place in a theater, cast members were spread around the audience, and the audience was lit, so it made it seem like the audience was part of the audience in the play. An entertaining evening of theater, but I wasn’t blown away.
On my walk home, I was able to take some nice night shots of the capitol as I had brought my camera along. Today was the first bad summer-type day of heat an humidity. On my walk home after 10 pm it was still 80° and 60% humidity. Yuck. Still a great scenic walk after an evening of theater.