Fall 2008

 

A Shakespeare Society first, December '08 saw the beginning of hopefully a long tradition of the Society One-Act Festival. The event, though lacking in appropriate venue, presented the audience with a bevy of Bard works, ranging from the comedic to the historic to the violent to the tragic. Viv Brand's cabaret interpretation of Midsummer's "play-within-a-play" opened the evening, followed by Sean Link, Hannah Ubl, and Kelly Bedard's beauty pageant-themed Julius Caesar. Nicanor Campos performed the disturbing opening monologue from Richard III, after which Karen Walden presented a modernized moment from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. The production took a decidedly darker turn in the second half, with scenes from Macbeth (directed by Tim Collins and Othello (directed by Lisa Walden), but ended with the mushy first kiss from Romeo and Juliet (directed by Arielle Davidsohn).