Saturday, August 10, 2013

Some More "To Be or Not TV"

The Touring Show of the Skagit River Shakespeare Festival performed their To Be Or Not TV at Bakerview Park in Mount Vernon this afternoon. This amazing woman, Carolyn Travis, put together the vignettes that make up this little mock Shakespearean drama --


As TV's Jerry Springer, Son-in-law Scott tries to make sense of a romantic "trapezoid" of lovers --


Only to discover that the mixed-up lovers are the result of the mischievous Puck's (played by Granddaughter Claire) "love flower" accidentally misapplied to the wrong party --
 

Maybe not so accidentally?


Later, Scott plays an impassioned King Henry --


The Queen's hysterical rendition of the Hokey Pokey in Shakespearean English even had the honorable Mayor of Mount Vernon (in the pink top) up and dancing --

The Touring Company had a nice turn-out for their performance in the park today. Although it was publicized on both the local radio and the newspaper, it is hard to predict how many people might actually show up. Forry said he was "Shakespeared out" and didn't go with me this afternoon -- I think he missed their best performance yet. Claire has another performance of Hamlet out at the Rexville/Blackrock Amphitheatre tonight and both Claire and Scott will be in The Merry Wives of Winsor tomorrow afternoon. They have one more weekend in this year's season.

It was raining lightly both times I woke up during the night, but today turned out to be a beautiful sunny day with a gorgeous sunset this evening.





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