Shakespeare Theater!

Every year, my friend, Diana, organizes a group of her friends to carpool to Staunton, VA to see two shows at the Shakespeare theater located there. This year the two shows were Much Ado About Nothing and Loves Labours Lost.

Since I had seen Much Ado About Nothing on stage a few years ago, I decided to just go to Loves Labours Lost (the evening show).

I drove separately with my friend, Melinda. We stopped at the Shenandoah Heritage Market near Harrisonburg, VA on our way to Staunton. The market is fun to look around! It has different stores within the building. There is beautiful antique furniture, handmade Amish quilts and aprons and other such things, homemade jams, salsa, and syrups, kitchen items, antiques, fudge etc.  I may or may not have bought a few items there. :)

After the market, our next stop was the glass factory in Staunton. We were hoping to see some live glass blowing while there, but alas we were too late in the day for that. But we got to walk around and see all of the cool glass creations for sale. There were some pretty spectacular glass pieces!

After we were done with the glass factory, we found a used bookstore nearby and had fun browsing the books. Both of us probably bought something here. How could we not?! :)

Whenever Diana sets up this Staunton Saturday, we always have a picnic dinner at a park in Staunton in between shows. Melinda and I met them at the park and then it was time for the show.

I love this theater! I've gone to this gathering every year since I've moved here, so 7 times. It's awesome! The theater is small and cozy, the actors are amazing and talented, and the company is great!

Loves Labours Lost was entertaining. Sometimes I had a hard time understanding (basically Shakespeare in general is hard for me to understand sometimes), but overall I really liked it and laughed a lot!

Most of our group!

Thanks Diana for putting this together and thanks Melinda for carpooling with me!