I'm Covered In Bees!

Okay...the title merits some explaining.
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This past Tuesday, instead of going to a museum, we had a guest speaker (Clare Ford Wille, at historian) come in for our Arts in London class who talked about symbolism in art and how you make shit up about any given painting. After a brief slideshow, we all walked down to the National Gallery (we'll be there officially in a few weeks, so don't worry) and she started pointing out the little symbols and stuff in paintings. It was like a Big Bus Tour...for art.
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Anyhoo, we get to this painting, which is Lucas Cranach's "Cupid Complains to Venus". Painted around AD 1525, it depicts a distressed Cupid being attacked by a swarm of bees after stealing a honeycomb. Clare told us that the story was meant to depict the duality of love, which may prove painful to those who pursue it, but the rewards are sweet.
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All I kept thinking about was Cupid being played by Eddie Izzard.
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VENUS - What is it, Cupid?
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CUPID - I'm covered in bees!
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The next day, we got the latest news on the next series of presentations from RADA.

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REHEARSAL PROJECT (King John) - I will be playing the Bastard. His name starts off as Phillip Falconbridge in the play, then, he gets knighted Sir Richard Plantagenet...but Shakespeare only ever refers to him in the script as "the Bastard". Regardless of that, it should be fun. Closed performance...no one but faculty and my classmates can see it. Sorry. Read the play; use your imagination.

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FILMED COMBAT SCENE (Guiderius v. Cloten from Cymbeline) - It's okay...no one has read Cymbeline. Just know that I will be Cloten in the fight. Hopefully, we can convince our teacher to post the outtakes on YouTube. He won't post the final fight, though. Sorry. Read the play; use your imagination.
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SCENE STUDY SCENE (Julius Casar, II-i) - I will be playing Brutus in this scene that follows the meeting of conspirators wherein Portia expresses her concern for her husband and the strange way he has been acting recently. Of course, you will not be able to see this showing either. Sorry. Read the play; use your imagination.

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Don't read all three plays in the same day. Good Lord, you'd be insane if you tried.
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The Fitzrovia pub has fallen back into our favor by supplying us with a place to chill before the show Wednesday night (we got out of studio around 5:00pm, the show didn't start until 7:30pm).
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The Play of the Week - "The Stone" @ the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square

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It was a new play from Germany, so I doubt you've heard of it. It was in English, thank God, but that didn't really make the story that much easier to follow. There was a lot of time-jumping back and forth and it had something to do with the grandmother lying about the late grandfather of the family being a Nazi. Either way, it was an okay play. Not great...but okay.

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We discovered something quite fortuitous when we arrived at the theatre, though. Apparently, 30 minutes after "The Stone" ended, they were going to put on a new 10min Carol Churchill play...for FREE! How could we resist? She wrote a quick little play which was described as "a play for Gaza". Okay...I'll bite.

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Bonus Play of the Week - "Seven Jewish Children" @ the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square

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Complete crock of shit.

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But hey...it was free.