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This morning I went on my first backstage tour. There was a lot of stuff I already knew, but it was still fun and I can see why repeat trips would be good. Our guide was animated and engaging and told good stories, and I finally got to see some of the inner workings.
Then we had lunch at the Standing Stones with ginger lemonade, and a brief consumer accident at the used bookstore. (I was looking for a copy of 'And Die in the West' and I blame all $25 on them for not having it in stock, as I only found the other books I bought while looking for it.)
PS: Who knew that Adam Stemple was published?
And this afternoon was Midsummer Night's Dream. The theme was apparently 'sort of sixties-seventies-eighties you know?' I really wanted to like this production, and the first thirty seconds (before Egeus's entrance) was really spot on perfect. Theseus and Hippolyta were cool as cucumbers and hipper than Vic Damone.
The fairies were hot boys in tutus and leather boots, and the forest was by far the best part of the show. I was a little disappointed that if they'd decided to make the fairies *real* fairies they didn't take the next logical step and make the fairy queen a *real* queen.
But their reach exceeded their grasp, and they pushed things too far. The play too often got bogged down in its trappings, and as usual I found the play within a play at the end made things drag. Plus, Nick Bottom needed a leash. At least it looked like he was having fun.
So this production gets three wags, two for the parts I liked and one for the potential it had to be better.
Then we had lunch at the Standing Stones with ginger lemonade, and a brief consumer accident at the used bookstore. (I was looking for a copy of 'And Die in the West' and I blame all $25 on them for not having it in stock, as I only found the other books I bought while looking for it.)
PS: Who knew that Adam Stemple was published?
And this afternoon was Midsummer Night's Dream. The theme was apparently 'sort of sixties-seventies-eighties you know?' I really wanted to like this production, and the first thirty seconds (before Egeus's entrance) was really spot on perfect. Theseus and Hippolyta were cool as cucumbers and hipper than Vic Damone.
The fairies were hot boys in tutus and leather boots, and the forest was by far the best part of the show. I was a little disappointed that if they'd decided to make the fairies *real* fairies they didn't take the next logical step and make the fairy queen a *real* queen.
But their reach exceeded their grasp, and they pushed things too far. The play too often got bogged down in its trappings, and as usual I found the play within a play at the end made things drag. Plus, Nick Bottom needed a leash. At least it looked like he was having fun.
So this production gets three wags, two for the parts I liked and one for the potential it had to be better.