I Feel So Cultured

The play we went to last night, "Influence," was really good. I thought it was going to be weird since it was held in a fairly small theater and had a very modern set, but it actually was very realistic and really well done. I was also afraid that I wouldn't understand the dialogue (Australian accents can often be very difficult to comprehend) but luckily everything was very clearly spoken. The play was about a radio commentator who's attempts to be controversial causes his family to spiral out of control. It was really well done (and had plenty of America-bashing, something that I've increasingly noticed here in Melbourne).

After class today we had a field trip to the Victoria Gallery where we saw their Aboriginal and Australian art collection. I didn't think I'd like it (I contemplated staying home and sleeping) but I actually ended up enjoying the gallery immensely. Some of the art pieces were amazing - one was a series of sardine cans that were cut in such a way that it looked as if trees were growing out of them. Another piece was an abstract cityscape of Melbourne at night except that the artist's technique included photographing downtown and then combining the pictures in Photoshop before then gridding out a canvas and painting the pieces. It was really cool.

Afterwards I went to sleep and started reading another book that we have to have read by tomorrow for our final. Tomorrow is our last day in Melbourne and I'm really sad about it. Hopefully we'll make it a busy but fun day, I want to soak up Melbourne as much as I can before I leave.