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September 22, 2004Get your Snout away from my Bottom...
I got cast in the University of Redlands production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" yesterday afternoon. I guess they'd been having some difficulty finding an actor for the role of Theseus, and a guy I've worked with before recommended my name to the director, who then brought me in to read with their Hippolyta. It's been going on ten years since I was in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" over at Riverside Community Players, so it will be fun to revisit the show—and it's always a good thing, both artistically and pragmatically, to branch out and work at new venues.
The production has a very reasonable rehearsal schedule, and Theseus really only appears twice. Rehearsals won't monopolize my evenings until production week, at which point you could hardly expect otherwise, regardless of the show in question. Tonight's my first rehearsal, and I'm looking forward to meeting some of the other cast members.
Posted by patrick at September 22, 2004 04:09 PM
CommentsWhat, you're not playing Bottom? (There's a joke that Shakespeare never intended, and yet which lives on...)
Still, as a rabid Bard-geek, I have to say that A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the more boring Shakespeare plays around. Sigh. I'm just waiting for the troupe brave enough to do Henry VI, parts I, II and III; them and Richard III, the sequel.
"Was ever woman in this humor wo'ed.... was ever woman in this humor won?"
Posted by: Jon Bastian at September 22, 2004 11:13 PM
So if your weekends are monopolized, are you coming to my UCR reunion next Saturday?
-Weena
Posted by: Weena at September 25, 2004 04:59 PM
Thank you! Chinese Apes.
Posted by: Yellow Monkey at February 28, 2005 08:59 AM
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