Our Synergy 8 class got to go on a field trip today to the Bard on the Beach, along with some other grade nine classes. We were going there to watch a Shakespeare play entitled, "All's Well that End's Well". The play took place in a tent on Jericho Beach. We got there in two private school buses.
I'll just describe the play. I understood most of the talking the actors did, and what was going on, but there were little parts I didn't catch. It was about Helena, who was a poor physician's daughter, trying to win the heart of a young Lord Bertram.
Bertram didn't like Helena, but he had to marry her because Helena cured the King of France, and the King let her choose a husband in his court so she chose Bertram. The main reason he felt hatred for Helena was because he didn't want to be called the "husband of a poor physician's daughter".
He ran away to fight in a war in Italy just to be away from Helena, and sent her a letter, challenging her to get the ring from his finger and bear his child, before he could ever be her true husband. In the end, Helena managed to meet these conditions and Bertram fell in love with her.
It was a pretty good play, and there were some really funny parts. The actors really knew what they were doing. If I could, I would want to watch it again!
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