fun in Shakespeare-land

So this weekend, Father, Brother, and I went up to the Resort Town in the Mountains to see summer Shakespeare: Richard II (and the director seemed to promise both Henry IV's next year!) and Merry Wives of Windsor.

On Friday night, we almost didn't get to see anything. We showed up early to wait in line and get good seats, and had a long, fun discussion about Plantagenets (okay, it was mostly me showing off my knowledge of the five of Edward III's sons not named William), and they delayed opening the house, and delayed some more, and finally let us in, only to say that they were waiting for the director to come and make an announcement. Which he did, eventually: that due to a freak truck-accident on the freeway, some of the actors were stuck in traffic, and wouldn't be able to make it on time; terribly sorry, but we're doing MWW tomorrow, and we'll give you all comps. There was enough of a fuss, however, that they offered to put the show on when everyone got there. So yay for late-night Shakespeare and we got our history play after all.

( Richard II )

( Merry Wives of Windsor )

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The only recording Naxos has of Giulio Cesare is an English-language one. I'm actually enjoying listening to it: certainly, the extra syllables/words of English sound a little bumpy, but it is very pleasant to have an idea of what is going on, just from listening. Also, I had forgotten that in it Cleopatra disguises herself as "Lydia" at times.