Winter's Tale

The show is closed.  I am depressed.  I miss it already!  I am a couple weeks late on a blog, but Leah said she was going to do a blog "takeover" and write one.  That has yet to happen, although she says she is "thinking thoughts" so the final blog of this season will hopefully be a recap from that Genius-Goddess!  I'm sure she has a lot to say about her first (hopefully not last) SBTS experience. But for this penultimate blog, you'll have to put up with more of my whinging and "deep thoughts."  There is a lot to cover that happened over the last two weeks of our tour.  We only had 3 Winter's Tale performances in that time.  But some shit went down during Merry Wives.  Jonathan got bit by a rattle snake.  I shit you not.  Jonathan, who my four loyal readers will remember is a genius who came into auditions and blew us all away.  He's so talented and funny and apparently can't look where he is stepping.  But before a show...

Why is Shakespeare still so popular?  It's because he understood the human condition better than anybody before or since.  (Hell, Freud used his characters as models for his own work...that's how human these characters were and continue to be).  In our current political climate, what with a would-be tyrant sitting in the White House splitting up families and accusing everybody who crosses him of lying, there are things in this play that are so current you can't help but marvel at how little we've progressed in 400 years...or in 2000 for that matter.  There is a moment in this play that always gets a laugh.  Whether it is a laugh of recognition, discomfort, or absurdity doesn't matter.  It always gets a response.  I have sent Cleomenes and Dion to Delphos to get the truth from the Oracle of Apollo.  The word of god!  The absolute truth!  They show up during the trial scene with this sealed document, open it up and read it.  It comple...