Growing up, my absolute favourite book was Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield, and the National Theatre have made a theatre show of it. Last night I had a bit of a fuck it moment (haha, I have a very boring life!) and I booked two tickets for me and hopefully someone I could drag with me 🤣
I have two children, one is an almost 12 yo boy and he'd rather stick pins in his eyes than come with me, and the other is a 5yo girl who would love it but the show is 7+ (also it's in London and she has anxiety in busy places so even if I chanced it and took her, she'd probably be too worried anyway). I don't really have any friends unfortunately, but I told my DH that I had booked it and he said he'll happily come and watch it with me.
Now I'm worried that I've done something stupid and that two adults are going to look really weird going to watch what is quite obviously a play aimed at children, without actually taking any children with us. I think I was just nostalgic because I adored the book and read it so many times, we almost named our daughter after one of the characters (and actually do call her that name as a nickname even though it's not actually her name!).
Should I cancel it? I don't want to feel like an idiot!