Tonight I saw the first play of the Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s summer season, Jane Austin’s Persuasion. This is the third, and last summer, LSF is doing a triptych pairing a Shakespeare play with a play based on a Jane Austin book. It was a very enjoyable production of a basically romantic play about a pair who’ve been apart due to advice (and persuasion) that they weren’t originally the right social match. The cast did a nice job, and the setting at Wente, although small, gives a nice intimate venue.
It was a very pleasant night, and Blanca joined Bob and I. I think Blanca just found it so-so with a bit too much overacting, but I thought that worked playing to broad comedy in places. All in all an enjoyable evening for the third play within a week.