This weekend, after an all day rehearsal, Spencer and I drove down to Staunton to perform in a staged reading of an Elizabethan play called Look About You by Anonymous. (He's a really cool guy.) Lesley Larsen Nesbit directed the show. It was wonderful. I love working with Lesley and Spencer.
The show is about Henry's family--John, Richard, Henry the son, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and I played Gloucester. Richard (played by Spencer) seduced Lady Fauckenbridge. Henry the son sent Gloucester to prison and I spent the play disguised as different characters after escaping prison. It was a great show.
Spencer was sick, and I think I'm getting his sickness now.
We finally finished the set for Midsummer Night's Dream. Hopefully it will stay up and no one will mess it up. We're setting the play in Washington DC. All the courtly folk are dressed like senators. The fairies are dressed like bohemian park dwellers, the Pucks (4 of them) are all dressed in old tattered suits. Oberon is in an old top hat--he's the king of the homeless. The mechanicals are all mechanics--(well there's a carpenter, a metro worker, a painter, etc.)
It's so much fun! I love this stuff. Theatre is great fun. It's always been fun, but lately, I'm having a ball.
2 comments:
I love plays! I'm so jealous. I need to move out there so I can read with you!!
Anonymous is pretty amazing! What an incredible portfolio! Lesley Larsen Nesbit is pretty cool, too. Spence and his friggin' communicable diseases. Stay away from that boy. Your play sounds fabulous. I love the homeless bit.
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