Tonight I saw the last play of this year’s CalShakes season, Measure for Measure. I hadn’t seen this play in a long time, and this was a pretty good production. It was a pleasant evening for almost October, and I was on my own this time. Due to some scheduling issues Bill and Andy had switched nights. My seats were also double booked by a Chevron group, but it all worked out ok. Interestingly, I also met an older retired guy who was there with his wife, who’d been coming for decades, and who had just been up in Ashland, and it turns out he had worked at the Lab. He then introduced me to another retired Lab guy who had also been on assignment in Washington. Small world.
The play is a bit of a morality play, or about being too moral without humility and mercy. It was done in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. I enjoyed it and am a bit sad for the season to be ending. I managed to cram one more Shakespeare into this year, but it’s still a few weeks off in SF.
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