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Me: "so do you guys have any tickets left? what's playing?"
Lady: "Yes, of course! Timon of Athens just started, you're a bit late but can still catch it."
Me: "I… have never heard of Timons but - "
Lady: "Oh, and it's in German."
Me: *a beat*
Me: "eh…"
Lady: "You can always try our 7:30 show tonight though - it's A Comedy of Errors -"
Me: " - oh, I'll take that one then - "
Lady: " - which is in Persian."
Me: "oh."
Lady: "You don't happen to speak Persian do you?"
Me: "not… really?"
Lady: "Yeah. I guess that was sort of a long shot. Um. We don't have any English-speaking Shakespeare till next week on Tuesday. Would you like a brochure?"

So long story short, we ended up seeing Timon of Athens in German, which turned out to be fantastic. Of course we couldn't understand a word in the entire play (except for a part in the middle when Apemantus started dancing to "I Will Survive") but it was creative enough that it didn't matter.

And then there was the part where the Timon stripped completely naked, which we had a… unintentionally good view of. But thumbs up! Apparently the Globe is doing all of Shakespeare's plays in 6 weeks, each of them in a different language.