I swear on the precious I'm not making this up...

Natalie Portman and Ian McKellen make an appearance to see Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic

I wish I had pictures to prove it. I've heard rumors that someone got them. I haven't seen them myself. I do have 45 other people to back me up on this though. Natalie Portman and Sir Ian McKellen were at the same theatre as me last night, and I had better seats.

I'll start at the beginning. This was an excursion that had been planned for several months. Martin bought the tickets a while ago to Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten with Kevin Spacey and they were great seats - four or five rows back from the stage. A few of us got there pretty early and made our way in. A bit later, John came in and told us that he had seen Natalie Portman. We were all kinda like, "Yeah, right, but that would be cool" and he was like "No, I'm serious. She's wearing a white coat." Naturally, we all started looking around for Natalie Portman in a white coat in places that you'd expect someone rich and famous to be - the boxes next to the stage or other seats close to the stage (like next to ours). Eventually someone saw her walking to her seat and it was confirmed. Natalie Portman was in the house.

Later, someone else (I forget who or I'd give them credit) said they'd just seen Gandalf. And yup, Sir Ian was a few seats away from her. At the intermission, a bunch of people of course went out to star watch and "accidentally" bump into them.

A few people hung out after the show to get Kevin Spacey's autograph too. Apparently it worked.

Oh yeah - the play. We did actually see a play. And it was, as many people agreed, amazing. The cast was small - five people with only the main three appearing for more than one scene - but they really carried the show. For a while, I forgot I was even sitting in a theatre.

Earlier in the day, our ICC class took a trip to Harrow School, the school where Winston Churchill, Lord Byron and the guy who founded the London Metropolitan Police (his name was Robert, hence the nickname for the police here - Bobbies.) went and the school where part of Harry Potter was filmed.

It was a pretty exciting day. And tonight I'm going to see the second part of Canterbury Tales. And tomorrow is a day trip to see a cathedral. And Saturday is fireworks and stuff. And Sunday is the real Guy Fawkes Day. And Monday... I might be able to sleep Monday.