{"id":12295,"date":"2009-08-04T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/08\/04\/12295.html"},"modified":"2009-08-04T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:21:02","slug":"midsummer-afternoons-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/08\/04\/midsummer-afternoons-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer afternoon’s “Dream”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last time I wrote a life-update entry, I mentioned the Shakespeare Santa Cruz offsite, but didn't go into detail.<\/p>\n

Not gonna go into detail now, either. Suffice it to say, it was a nice performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream<\/cite> in SSC's nice outdoor performance space; and unlike the last version I saw<\/a>, this one was entirely in English. Gave me even more appreciation for how well the multilingual production handled things, I think.<\/p>\n

During the first half of the SSC version the other week, we were sitting in the sun, which got very hot; after intermission, we moved down the hill into the shade, and somehow the second half was much better than the first half. (That \"somehow\" is sarcastic; point being, the heat made it hard to concentrate on the show, and the shade made it much easier.)<\/p>\n

One thing I was struck by: during much of Dream<\/cite>, various characters spend significant amounts of time asleep onstage. I wonder if the actors find it boring.<\/p>\n

Another thing I wondered: has anyone done a Dream<\/cite> reworking in which the first person seen on awakening is one of the same-sex characters? I imagine some judicious Googling would lead me to the answer, but no time for that right now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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