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As You Like It, Again

Tonight I saw the fourth play in as many days from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season, As You Like It. I’ve already seen it once this summer, and I’m scheduled to see it one more time. Interestingly, like the first … Continue reading

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A Wonderful Romeo and Juliet

Tonight I saw the third play in three days from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season, Romeo and Juliet. This is one of my favorite plays, and as such I have high expectations which sometimes aren’t met. That wasn’t the case … Continue reading

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A Future History

Tonight I saw the next play in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season, a Shakespeare-like play called King Charles III, which the author refers to as a future history play. It was written by Mike Bartlett in 2014. It imagines the … Continue reading

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Twelfth Night

Tonight I saw the first play in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season, a wonderful production of Twelfth Night. It was a very warm night, and the play had a Caribbean tropical theme. They had a lot of action before the … Continue reading

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Complete Works

Tonight I saw the second play of the Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s season, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. I again joined Bob and Blanca. This is a fast moving comedy featuring only three actors, that tries (sort-of) to … Continue reading

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Civil War Othello

Tonight I saw the first play in Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s season, Othello. I joined Bob and Blanca on a relatively warm evening. While I always am frustrated by the theme of this play, it is very powerful. This production was … Continue reading

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Good Person

Tonight I saw the 2nd play in this summer’s CalShakes season, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan. It was a relatively warm evening, and I made it up to Orinda in record time. I wasn’t sure what to expect … Continue reading

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As You Like It 𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮

Tonight I saw this year’s play from the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park. It was a new production of As You Like It presented as a musical. I’ll have to say I was dubious when I … Continue reading

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A Cool PreSummer’s Night

I kicked off my theater season with CalShakes first play of the season, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was the first run of this year’s solo configuration for CSF for me. It was an enjoyable evening and nice to be … Continue reading

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Henry V

I ended my visit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with a wonderful production of Henry V. This completed the Henriad tetralogy that started in 2016 with Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV that I saw last year. … Continue reading

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