Today I trekked down to Santa Cruz to see another Shakespeare play I haven’t seen in a while, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It was a nice warm day when I left home, but it was foggy and a bit cool when I got down to Santa Cruz. This is the first time I’ve been to Santa Cruz Shakespeare since they moved to The Grove at DeLavega Park. It’s a nice venue, surrounded by a beautiful park and golf course, which seems only slightly smaller than the last place.
The acting was pretty good, but this seems to be one of my less favorite plays, both in structure and in story. It’s apparently one of Shakespeare’s earliest, and most talking is either single speeches or dialog between a pair of people on stage. I’m glad I went down to see it, and it was an enjoyable, if not mind-blowing, production. The stop-and-go traffic all the way back through the Santa Cruz mountains reminded me why I think this is a tough venue to visit.
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