concert and play

I've never heard of any concert that requires a round of balloting to decide who are the lucky few allowed to fork out dough to purchase a pair of tickets. Yup, Live Earth is my first. The curious little girl in me registered for the ballot for kicks. And made a pact with Bel (another workingholidaymaker) that we are to bring each other if either one of us reaches the esteemed final stage of actually paying over RM300 for a ticket (what is the world decaying into... we're celebrating the fact that we can use our money!). It's not like the headliners for the concert are extremely impressive (hello Damien Rice) and flying the performers over with turbo fuel-guzzling, noxious fumes-exuding private jets will probably defeat the whole purpose of this "Concert for a Climate in Crisis" anyway. But hey, I'm not about to miss out on the UK summer musical extravaganza.

I didn't get selected.

But I got a better deal. I'm gonna catch Peter Shaffer's Equus, better known as "the controversial Harry Potter play that many parents protest about". On the final night of this season's run! Also my second night in London (I need the first to get the time difference right). So it's straight from Malaysia to London to Daniel Radcliffe's underaged todger for me. Yeeeeehaw!

Equus tells the story of a psychiatrist's attempts to treat a young man who causes senseless injury to horses. Wikipedia says the play is essentially a detective story, with the psychiatrist trying to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose. Bla bla bla, I'm there for the stable seduction scene.

Ooooh this gets me all flustered. You girls don't be jealous now, Jamie Bell will play Alan Strang the next season. No more Harry Potter but you can see Billy Elliot-lah.

If my friend tells me on Monday that the tickets are sold out, I will positively cry.