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Saw Henry IV, Part I at the Folger Shakespeare yesterday. Before the play we saw the exhibit about the building, which they're about to close for renovations; the theater might not get to have a season next year if they don't find a temporary venue. I've seen a lot of Shakespeare plays in my time, but far fewer of the histories, and I hadn't seen this one. They've been doing the less put on plays at the Folger lately. This was a pretty effective production, with an ambiguous setting, and a lot of truly excellent acting. Mom commented afterwards about how nowadays buffons like Falstaff make us think of Trump, which left me very grateful they didn't make this one look like him, but let him be his own more complicated self, with a good point about the pointlessness of war, bad a person as he happens to be.
We'd intended to get dinner at Noodles & Company afterwards, but it seems they are now a place that doesn't have everything their menu says they have. So we went looking for another place that serves Italian, and found an excellent if whitebread restaurant called Atlantis only ten minutes away. They served us too much food there, but it was very good food.