Got our advance notice of what the Colorado Shakespeare Festival [http://www.coloradoshakes.org/] is serving up next summer. It's going to be an excellent line-up — Julius Caesar (the first Shakespeare I read), Hamlet (which Kay has been reading recently), and Taming of the Shrew (always a hoot). For their modern production they will, appropriately, be doing Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Finally, they'll be doing two nights of their fun Original Practices edition, with Henry VI, Part 3 (finally wrapping up that whole cycle); no word on whether Kit Marlowe will be co-credited.
I'm sure if we set up tix this far in advance, we'll run into conflicts; on the other hand, discounts and good seats are a powerful persuader, and our plans for next summer (aside from college visits, ugh) are still nebulous. So it's just a matter of doing some schedule coordination with our play-watching cohorts, and then marking the calendar. CSF always does a fine job, and I'm very much looking forward to next season.
Yes, and to me it's pretty cool that they are producing the 3 original plays that started it all 60 years ago.
+Kaylee Testerman is reading Julius Caesar right now. Might have to get some tickets for that production.
+Doyce Testerman always better to see a production than read it. Also cool that Kaylee's school is tackling Shakespeare, usually only the Theater Geeks get that opportunity in Middle School.
Yeah, I didn't get directly exposed to Shakespeare until high school.
I've always liked JC, though it's not nearly as popular as a lot of other Shakespearean plays — IMO because it is pretty cerebral and (a bit of mob violence aside) not action-oriented. It's a psychodrama about ambition, honor, and manipulating the crowd. Good stuff, and some great monologues.