Folger Theatre, Washington DC
Well, this was my first taste of transatlantic theatre – a short* trip to Washington and New York coinciding with the Folger’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I’ve written before about the Folger library – well, it has attached a small theatre, based on the Globe (or possibly the Rose) but indoors and with MUCH more comfortable seating. And it was here that I saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream – not my favourite Shakespeare play, but one I know reasonably well.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, I feel it is very apt to share with you the single most important I have learnt from Shakespeare. Men, woo your ladies with wordplay.
The Globe has just announced its summer season – the first under Emma Rice who is taking over from Dominic Dromgoole as Artistic Director.
I wrote back in January about how rarely Shakespeare writes an unhappy marriage, but his suitors don’t always take the simplest route there, and sometimes have to be – shall we say – encouraged…
A strange and funny beast is prophecy. All the greats tell us this. And Shakespeare can’t let it well enough alone, like so many.
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