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On Tuesday Patrick and I went to see Radio Macbeth – it’s part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. I liked it. It’s a quirky show. The dialogue is all Macbeth – but the actors are rehearsing for a radio play – so the actions do not necessarily follow the play.

The actions told another story, which I found interesting. I liked the way they were able to accomplish the interspersed mini dramas into Macbeth. Patrick didn’t like it as much. He didn’t think they went far enough – but I enjoyed the times that it really worked and enjoyed the times when you were back listening to Shakespeare.

That being said – I think this would be a difficult show if you didn’t know Macbeth. I think it would be difficult to follow that main theme if you really had to concentrate on the speech to follow the nuances of the plot. Or I guess you could do that but you might miss the unrelated action.

The other thing that I always like – the play was 90 minutes long. That’s a perfect length.

Last night Patrick and I met group called New & Not So New in Dublin at the Foggy Dew Pub. It’s a Meet Up group – for those who don’t know about Meet Up, it’s an international web site that helps groups of people connect.

So I searched for social groups in Dublin. Actually I really just searched for Dublin groups that were meeting this week – and this sounded best to me. (Although the Gothic Dublin came in a very close second.)

There were about 13 people at the pub. Half were Irish the rest were from around the world – South Africa, Holland, Switzerland, Colorado, France… Everyone was very friendly. Everyone had very different but interesting reasons for being in Dublin .

This group meets a couple of times a week. I’m sure we’ll meet up with them again.

The pub was also great and has a free ska/reggae band on Sunday nights so I know I’ll be back there!