As You Like It
Jul. 11th, 2002 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidLast night I went to the Publick Theatre's production of As You Like It.
The theater is open-air, along the Charles, just off the bike path (so there were occasional people meandering by just behind the stage). There's plenty of parking, and a community garden next door, which was nice to see. They've also paved the way up to the amphitheater, as well as replaced the stage with some surface more environmentally friendly than (pressure-treated?) wood, being in a watershed area (necessary due to vandalism, however. Grr.).
The set is a lot of brown wood panels, a walkway above with some screens, a few touches of greenery and flowers. A set open to interpretation, with plenty of entrances from all sides.
And the production was a lot of fun. I don't remember seeing this Shakespeare play before, but there were certain bits of dialogue that reminded me of Much Ado About Nothing. The plot was as fantastical as any of the comedies, with a completely deus ex machina ending, but it was fun. I'm always amazed at how many phrases we take for granted he used. The ones I most remember are "motley fool" and "therein lies the tale," and the whole long piece about the ages of man.
This year seemed to have fewer of the problems of hard-to-hear voices, too. The lighting was decent, and it looks like next year will be better. The costumes were very nice, too.
Chilly evening, which was a challenge, but a nice one to have, after all the heat. (I remember my mom in hat and winter coat for an outdoor production in Worcester in August one year...)
And I'd made two flatbreads that came out really well (puffy in the right ways) to snack on (one with the usual za'atar and extra sumak, the other with sea salt, freshly ground pepper, and some thyme, both with olive oil, and dried bits of garlic in the dough).
o
The theater is open-air, along the Charles, just off the bike path (so there were occasional people meandering by just behind the stage). There's plenty of parking, and a community garden next door, which was nice to see. They've also paved the way up to the amphitheater, as well as replaced the stage with some surface more environmentally friendly than (pressure-treated?) wood, being in a watershed area (necessary due to vandalism, however. Grr.).
The set is a lot of brown wood panels, a walkway above with some screens, a few touches of greenery and flowers. A set open to interpretation, with plenty of entrances from all sides.
And the production was a lot of fun. I don't remember seeing this Shakespeare play before, but there were certain bits of dialogue that reminded me of Much Ado About Nothing. The plot was as fantastical as any of the comedies, with a completely deus ex machina ending, but it was fun. I'm always amazed at how many phrases we take for granted he used. The ones I most remember are "motley fool" and "therein lies the tale," and the whole long piece about the ages of man.
This year seemed to have fewer of the problems of hard-to-hear voices, too. The lighting was decent, and it looks like next year will be better. The costumes were very nice, too.
Chilly evening, which was a challenge, but a nice one to have, after all the heat. (I remember my mom in hat and winter coat for an outdoor production in Worcester in August one year...)
And I'd made two flatbreads that came out really well (puffy in the right ways) to snack on (one with the usual za'atar and extra sumak, the other with sea salt, freshly ground pepper, and some thyme, both with olive oil, and dried bits of garlic in the dough).
o