Tonight I saw a very enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in the outdoor Elizabethan Theatre. It was very funny and comical as expected. Falstaff, the supposed super-randy old man was played by a woman, K.T. Vogt. I’m always a bit skeptical of that to begin with, but she was very funny and carried it off. The production was infused with a lot of music, basically a lot of snippets of 80’s pop hits. It was both funny and fun and really added to the play.
It was a pretty cool evening but luckily I had on lots of layers. I thought we’d missed the bad weather till almost the second the play was about to start it started raining pretty good. It only lasted about 10 minutes. Then it started sprinkling again around intermission. Some of the actors even referenced the rain and some of the audiences rain costumes. We lost much of the row I was in at intermission, but it wasn’t really too bad. A very enjoyable play to see despite some challenging weather. It’s really hard to believe I have only one play left this trip.
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