I was hoping I could get part three of the recap up today, but there were just too many things to deal with this morning and shortly I will be off to Pennsylvania to see the lovely Miss Wendy, who’s teaching a summer class down there. Yes, you can imagine the scenario looking something like…
Category: Shakespeare
UK Week 2: Mad Men and English Dogs (part two)
When I first came to London way back when, I got my first real introduction to theatre. Sure, I had seen productions before that, but I had never been immersed in plays as I was that summer. I’ve been smitten ever since. One of the experiences was seeing two productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
Midsummer in Late Winter
Yesterday I ran over to HVCC’s Maureen Stapleton Theatre to see Shakespeare & Co‘s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Conveniently close by and better yet — it was free! It’s a nice little theater, although the acoustics weren’t brilliant. The theater slowly filled up with students and other theater junkies (well, maybe they were…
Sonnet XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyesI all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,With what I most enjoy contented…