No seriously, it was awesome! It was a smaller theater set up as it would have been in Shakespeare's time. We saw two plays and the actors that played in "Hamlet" were the same actors that played in "The Importance of Being Earnest" that same evening. During the intermission, some of the actors would entertain us by playing the guitar and sing modern songs, such as "Love Shack," "Going to the Chapel." It was awesome! The actors could act, sing, dance, and memorize lines for two plays. I was highly impressed!
I had a huge smile on my face the whole time :) Awesome plays, awesome company, awesome music, awesome little town of Staunton, Virginia.
P.S. In between the plays, we had a picnic in a park, on a gazebo, in the rain, and a duck pond. What memories! Thank you friends for inviting me!
P.P.S. This was my first time ever seeing, hearing, or reading the story of Hamlet. I was surprised by it. It wasn't as dark as I thought it would be. (The actors were good at lightening up the mood when they could). Hamlet was crazy, the grave digger was funny, and everyone died at the end. I found it very interesting.
Thank you stauntonbedandbreakfast.com for this picture.
This is the theater. We were sitting on the center balcony behind the person taking the picture and to the right. (This picture was not taken while we were there.) It was the perfect seat. The theater was so small, that really any seat would have been awesome, except behind a pillar or something ;)
There were audience members sitting on the stage too :) The actors would turn to the audience members and talk to them as if they were part of the show.
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What an amazing experience. Glad you had good friends to go with you. You keep finding the most interesting things to do.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? — To die, to sleep, —
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; —
To sleep, perchance to dream: — ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death, —
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, — puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know naught of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Just thought I'd finish the quotation for you! Here are a couple of other great lines from Hamlet:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Sounds simply "awesome" AnnaLisa. I'm glad you are taking so many fun excursions. I hope you are surviving your babysitting 4 kids and a dog experience. (o:
Your post really captures the experience! Love it!
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