The Winter's Tale

Mamillius "A sad tale is best for Winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.

Hermoin "Let's have that one good sir."


It's been ages since I've read Shakespeare. I picked up Winter's Tale the other night and remembered why I fell in love with his words so many years ago now.

My life (as Jenna can attest) was consumed by the theater at one time. I would spend dollar after dollar to see the latest plays and musicals and purchase new dramatic works. I would spend my time pouring over said dramatic works, reading them aloud, staging and directing them in my head. Always dreaming that one day I would play the role of Hamlet.

I can't remember the last time I read a play, much less saw one - I think it was Phantom of the Opera with Jenna before Liam was born - probably about 4 years ago now. I really miss them. The ephemeral moments of live theater is like nothing else on the planet. No show is the same though the words never change. Theater is truly poetry in motion.

Remembering now some of my favorites:::Check these out:::
Eugene Miller - Ile (found in Nine Plays of the Sea), The Iceman Cometh
Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (duh!), Midsummer Nights Dream
Tony Kushner - Angels in America:Millennium Approaches (I like it better than V2:Perestroika)
Daniel MacIvor - House Humans
Steve Martin - Picasso at the Lapin Angil (and other plays)
Yasmina Reza - Art
Neil Simon - Lost in Yonkers
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, After the Fall
Harold Pinter - Betrayal
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Inherit the Wind

Musicals (just to name a few) ::RENT ::Godspell ::The Scarlet Pimpernel ::Les Miserables ::Porgy and Bess ::Stomp ::The Fantastics ::