After a nice dinner at Bob and Blanca’s, Bob, Blanca, their friend Jim, and I went over to see the first play in the Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s season, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was a beautiful warm night to be outside at the vineyard seeing a wonderful production.
The stage here is very small, and the set is pretty minimal, but the costumes were good, and the acting was great. It was a very funny production, and the most comedic roles were done extremely well. The character of Bottom, who gets his head replaced with that of an ass, was hilarious with little donkey vocalizations. Even one of the apprentices, who was called in as an understudy of a main character after the intermission, did a good job in that role. A very top-notch production by this little home town theater company. A very good evening.
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