In my mind, Oscar Wilde can (I mean, could, when he was alive, of course) do no wrong (I mean, as a writer, of course).
So the Hudson Warehouse Theater Company’s outdoor production of the play was always going to be good in my opinion.
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It was always inevitable, of course. You knew it from the moment the curtain rose and the familiar sense of this isn’t going to end well bubbled and gurgled up into your throat.
But you tried to enjoy the experience anyway, since everyone was so talented and objectively it was impressive.
Still, that nagging feeling of this is hurtling toward devastation wouldn’t go away, and while on the one hand, you wanted to just get it over with, on the other hand you wanted to stop time so you might never have to reach the instant everything goes so terribly wrong.
I’m just going to throw this out there as a suggestion, though I’m not any sort of theater expert (the last play I was in was a classroom performance of The Animal Music Men in second grade; I played Diggy Dog): you should probably read through a play at least once before trying to perform it. Especially if it’s Shakespeare.
Had I known that participating in a Shakespeare marathon would entail reading The Tempest with people who had performed the play in a real production before, or at least were professional actors, or at the very least knew what the play was about, well, I would have taken my own advice.
It’s like NYC’s Shakespeare in the Park, only you don’t have to get there at 4am for tickets. Pretty cool if you ask me.
And if you ask me, while the actors were good in As You Like It, the funniest part of the evening happened before the play even started. Continue reading “#183: Cleveland Shakespeare Festival”
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