Great idea.
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I've been thinking again (dangerous I know) but since we are doing the
Induction scene 2, I would like to suggest that we include at the end of all
of our scenes, the final Sly and Tavern Keeper 'Epilogue' scene from Taming
of A Shrew, which would neatly tie the whole performance together and would
add closure, I think, to our selection of scenes(and it is short).....Sly
returned to the curb in his own clothes....babbling about the best dream he
ever had in all his life..(I've added the text, or a version of it, below)
I suppose we would need to include bits of Induction scene 1 so it all makes
sense.....perhaps these might be enough: Lines: 1-13; 29-41; and 70-71.
TAMING OF A SHREW
[EPILOGUE]
Then enter two bearing of Sly in his own apparel again, and
leave him where they found him, and then go out.
Then enter the Tapster.
Tapster. Now that the darksome night is overpassed,
And dawning day appears in crystal sky,
Now must I haste abroad. But soft, who's this?
What, Sly? Oh wondrous, hath he lain here all night? (4)
I'll wake him; I think he's starved by this,
But that his belly was so stuffed with ale.
What, how now, Sly, Awake for shame!
Sly. Gi's some more wine! What's all the players gone?
Am not I a lord?
Tapster. A lord, with a murrain! Come, art thou drunken
still?
Sly. Who's this? Tapster? Oh, lord, sirrah, I have had (12)
The bravest dream to-night, that ever thou
Heardest in all thy life!
Tapster. Ay, marry, but you had best get you home,
For your wife will course you for dreaming here to-night. (16)
Sly. Will she? I know now how to tame a shrew!
I dreamt upon it all this night till now,
And thou hast waked me out of the best dream
That ever I had In my life. (20)
But I'll to my wife presently
And tame her too, and if she anger me.
Tapster. Nay, tarry, Sly, for I'll go home with thee,
And hear the rest that thou hast dreamt to-night. (24)
[Exeunt Omnes.]
What do y'all think??
Besides, I would love to play the Mistress of the Tavern so I can beat Sly
with my broom...
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I live in Austin and am available to pick folks up at the airport and/or
transport them to Winedale. Just holler!
xo,
Susan
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invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I 'd be delighted to help with logistics Houston to Winedale and Winedale to Houston if anyone wants. Any of you all are welcome to stay overnight and have dinner (staying in one of the kids' rooms - we can move the gerbil out if she gets noisy). I can take two or three people out and/or back (probably in my 2000 Corolla).
Do any of you have a copy of the tentative schedule for the week
(including arrival and departure times) that I sent a long time ago.
I cannot locatate it.
Doc
Thanks to Detective Jackson and Michael, I have copies of the letter I
sent. For those of you who have misplaced it, here it is:
Plans for former students of the first 30 years (the so-called
"ancianos") are these:
1. A week-long in residence opportunity to work on scenes from Sh in
the Theater Barn toward a public Reunion Performance on Saturday,
August 14, at 2:00 p.m. Dates of this adventure: Saturday, August 7
(arriving at 5:00 p.m.) through Sunday, August 15 (departing at 10.00
a.m.) Participants will be staying at the Shelby B & B 5 miles from
Winedale. Cost for each participant is $320. All meals will be taken
at Winedale in Wagner House at no charge. Sh at W fill fund that.
Should you have interest in this adventure, please let me know before
April 1. Deadline. On April 1, the committee of young women noted
above, will select 20 from those who "apply." They will also select
the scenes and assign roles.
2. Should you not have time or inclination for the week-long
opportunity, you may be interested in a shortened version we hope to
schedule Thursday, August 12 (arriving at 3:00 p.m. through Sunday,
August 15 (departing at 10:00 a.m.) Those interested in this
opportunity will work on short scenes, speeches, poems, etc., which
will be performed at various times, e.g., as interludes between the
scenes on Saturday, as performances at the brunch or at the reunion
dinner, or just anytime the spirit strikes. Those working in this way
will stay at B & B's in the area. Or possibly at Winedale in Wagner
House. Again, all meals will be taken at Winedale.
3. Should you not have time for either of the above, we hope that you
will attend any part of reunion week that you can, feeling free to
drop in at any time, any day, but certainly to be present all day
Saturday, August 15, and hopefully Sunday morning following. I can
guide those in 2 and 3 to overnight B & B stays.
Most important to us at this point is that you make plans now to come
to Winedale for the reunion, find your way back here. For any part of
what we are planning. Bring everyone you love. Kids and other friends.
Here's a tentative schedule for Reunion Day, Saturday, August 14:
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Brunch. With performances by Camp
Shakespeare kids and just anyone else.
2:00 p.m. Performance of scenes by week-long ancianos and others (see
#2 above).
6:30 p.m. Reunion banquet. More performances.
Sunday, August 15:
Breakfast at Winedale 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Departure: 10:00 a.m.
I will of course have to learn how many to expect and on what days for
meals (breakfast, lunch, supper) at Winedale.
So there's your invitation.
Doc
Doc, here's a note in which you say the week-long session is Aug. 7-15.
This one is fairly recent (April 28). I'll check the earliest messages and
forward them to you as well.
--Mike
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Greetings to all. After much anguish, the gals and I selected the
following to participate in the week-long (August 7-15) session: Bruce
Meyer, Maggie Megaw, Mike Godwin, Michael Barker, Clayton Stromberger,
Matt Kozusko, Jeff Larsen, Craig Hurwitz, Robert Jackson, Susan Todd,
Joy Howard, David Ziegler, Robert Pees, Kathy Blackbird, Jayne Suhler,
Madge Darlington, Mary Collins, Alice Gordon, Gail Macdonald, Terry
Galloway, Kirsten Kern.
A number of folks have committed to the "long-weekend" (August 12-15)
experience: Dali Clark, Leigh Hopper Oberholzer, Tara Kirkland, Don
Brode, Jon Watson, Lizz Ketterer, Yvette Scott, Robert Stevens, Lynn
McGuire, Robert Faires, Valerie Malone, and Steve Price. If I have
omitted someone who wrote me about participating, please let me know.
And if any of you wish to join this group, there is still room for you
at Wagner House dormitory at Winedale at the cost of $105.00 for the
three night stay. Let me know.
It is now time for the week-long group to be thinking about scenes to
perform. So let's get going. Please send your suggestions to me and
the gals. I will not have too much time to address the choices since
I am already deep into Camp Shakespeare planning and will be pretty
much out of the picture June 6-July 11. I'm hoping that one of the
gals has time to record your suggestions, send them to the rest of us.
Further, I think that we should be open to suggestions from the "at
large" list Mike has compiled. One thing the "committee" would really
like to do is consider scenes this "rare" company has never performed
or perhaps never seen or read.
So toss aside the MND "oldies" for a while for some fresh challenges.
The "long-weekend" folks will participate in another way, through
individual or small group performances which will be celebrated
throughout reunion day, August 14. E.g., I've asked Robert Faires to
perform a sequence from his one-man Henry 5; Lizz Ketterer, to play
some music. As we get a bit closer to the reunion, I hope to hear
from these people about what they are planning.
The kids attending Camp Shakespeare this summer will be performing A
Midsummer Night's Dream at Winedale on June 10 and As You Like It on
July 10, both Saturday matinees at 1 p.m. We hope you can attend
these performances.
It is great to be hearing from so many of you about where you are,
what you have been doing.
Cheers,
Doc
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Hi Doc!
Sorry to ask this but I've lost my schedule in 1200 emails.... Can you give us a rundown on when we are supposed to be at Winedale, the 7th (Saturday) or the 8th (Sunday)? I think I've got the rest figured out...just the beginning dates are what I need.
Sorry to bother you. Looking forward to the next performance of the amazing ninos...
Anon!
Joy
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Subject: Heigh Ho, and here we go!
Dear Ancianos,
Here are the results of all the
discussion, voting, to'ing, fro'ing, phone consulting, spreadsheets,
line counts and so on. Hurrah! We hope it is an accurate reflection of
the general consensus. We've tried to include lots of scenes with
plenty of speakers, mixing the sad and the happy, the solemn and the
serious, and to give the performance a structure related to playing
(with a tip of the hat to our original theme). There will still be time for discussion about transitions between scenes and even whether we
need to trim further. The scenes with their speakers are listed below
and as an attachment.
Doc will have time as of July 9, once Camp Shakespeare's AYLI performs, to do the casting, so please read/reread, and decide
which TWO substantial roles you would most like to play. We have listed
nearly all the roles, for context, but are asking for your desires re:
the strongest voices in the scenes. Please email your choices to Doc and the committee (tried to put this info in a line for you, but it didn't work):
Mary Collins <mmcollins50(a)yahoo.com>; James Ayres <jayres(a)cvctx.com>; McDonald G. <G.McDonald(a)soton.ac.uk>; Madge
Darlington <mmdarlington(a)gmail.com>; Stan Kern <stan(a)texashealingarts.com>
Terry Galloway <tlgalloway(a)aol.com
Alice Gordon <alicegordon(a)earthlink.net
Almost there! thanks for your patience, and
we can now begin having those dreams where we somehow forgot to learn
our lines....
Love and best wishes to all,
The Committee and Doc
Scenes to be
performed August 14, 2010 at Shakespeare at Winedale
TAMING, THE
INDUCTION, Scene 2
A LORD, later posing as a servant
CHRISTOPHER
SLY / HAMLET
BARTHOLOMEW, PAGE TO THE LORD, later posing as sly’s wife
A COMPANY OF STROLLING PLAYERS
HUNTSMEN AND SERVANTS TO THE LORD
HOSTESS OF A TAVERN
HAMLET 3.2.
LINES 1 - 295
HAMLET
PLAYER
KING
PLAYER QUEEN
THE PLAYERS
ROSENCRANTZ
GUILDENSTERN
POLONIUS
OPHELIA
GERTRUDE
CLAUDIUS
HORATIO
COE 2.2 + 3.1 (TRIM, IF POSSIBLE)
ANTIPHOLUS S
DROMIO
S
ADRIANA
LUCIANA
ANTIPHOLUS E
DROMIO
E
BALTHASAR
LUCE
ANGELO
LEAR STOCKS 2.4.
LEAR
FOOL
KNIGHT
KENT
GLOUCESTER
GENTLEMAN
CORNWALL
REGAN
GONERIL
TAMING SERVANTS 4.1
GRUMIO
CURTIS
NATHANIEL
PHILIP
JOSEPH
NICHOLAS
PETRUCHIO
KATE
FIRST SERVANT
PETER
WTALE 3.2
LEONTES
OFFICERS AND LORDS
HERMIONE
CLEOMENES
DION
SERVANT
PAULINA
SPEAKING OFFICER
SPEAKING LORD
PAULINA
MND LOVERS GANG 3.2
OBERON
PUCK
DEMETRIUS
HERMIA
LYSANDER
HELENA
[INTERMISSION]
12TH NIGHT 1.5
MARIA
CLOWN
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
TOBY
VIOLA
LEAR 4.5 OR 4.6 (IN CONFLATED TEXT) GLOUCESTER, EDGAR, AND LEAR ON THE HEATH
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
LEAR
GENTLEMAN
OSWALD
2H4 3.2 SHALLOW, SILENCE
SHALLOW
SILENCE
FALSTAFF
MOULDY
SHADOW
WART
FEEBLE
BULCALF
WT 5.3 STATUE
LEONTES
PAULINA
POLIXENES
PERDITA
CAMILLO
FLORIZEL
LORDS
MND 5.1, as of line 106, "So please your grace, the prologue
is addressed."
QUINCE
BOTTOM/PYRAMUS
FLUTE/THISBY
OTHER MECHANICALS
THESEUS
HIPPOLYTA
PHILOSTRATE
FAIRIES
DEMETRIUS
LYSANDER
PUCK
OBERON
TITANIA
Great balance of scenes.
Thank you for this.
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Did everyone get the list of scenes to perform that I just sent out? I did not! Please let me know, one way or the other.
Thanks!
Mary
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Unbelievably great. Thanks for this. I feel I was there when I read this.
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The final gathering was a wonderful moment. No one in their yellow Camp shirt wanted to be the first to step away. A parent said, "One more song." Doc and the counselors told the kids, "You choose." The kids chose "Wind and the Rain," Feste's farewell from Twelfth Night, and as it reached the inevitable moment of "Our play is done..." I saw Doc's granddaughter Caitlin's eyes welling up, and another boy wiping away a tear... lovely. And yes, that hard goodbye took me back to a final hot Sunday in the Barn 27 years ago.
Augie didn't cry (I think he may be half Vulcan, he's sort of fascinated by others' tears) but my wife did hear him say to no one in particular, "I don't want to go..."
Equally wonderful was the wave of spontaneous, unself-conscious hugs happily exchanged by all the kids in the crowded foyer of the Barn after the Saturday performance -- I saw Augie hug girls who weren't his sister or his cousins! And he didn't cringe!
Both performances were remarkable for the clarity and crispness of the language, the delicate attention paid to individual words, the head-high confidence of the players (earned through hours and hours of hard work), and a genuine pleasure in playing together and in the sharing of discoveries with the audience. And I have to agree with Jeff, little Maya's Puck was a delight to watch, completely unforced, genuinely engaged in every moment, especially those in which she was listening to others (Titania in her speeches, the quarreling lovers) -- a world of reactions rippled across her face, but so subtly that she always redirected our attention to the character speaking. She never tried to be "funny," she was simply a very mysterious creature with a unique relationship with the audience.
The final moment of the play, with everyone onstage, frozen, except for Maya speaking Puck's final lines, was heartbreakingly beautiful. It sure got Jerald, sitting on the front row, who told my wife afterwards, "This old heart of mine can still clutch up!"
Wonder indeed became familiar. Thanks, Doc.
cs
On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:27 PM, James Ayres wrote:
> Jeff: It was once again great to see you and Mary at the performance.
> Thanks for making the bows. We will use them again in AYL. Son Will
> seems to be very excited about what's ahead for him in the play. And
> thanks for your comments on the performance. You are absolutely
> right. It was a good play, with good kids who worked and played
> twelve 15 hour days toward developing a special ensemble experience.
> After the performance at Winedale today, none of them wanted to
> leave. We are talking about 10-13 year olds! I think their parents
> were a bit astonished by the final hugs and tears.
>
> Reminds me of the old days.
>
> Doc
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Jeff Larsen wrote:
>
>> Just got back from seeing Doc's Shakespeare camp for kids perform
>> MND. It was a wonderful performance, excellent ensemble, very good
>> use of a multitude of musical instruments, Clayton's Augie doing a
>> great job as Bottom, and an excellent Oberon (and the same guy
>> played Snug the joiner/lion). AND a Puck to knock your socks off.
>> (Maybe being about 3'6" and 40 lbs gives you an advantage in looking
>> right for the role, but this kid was ROMPING. I think she was
>> channeling the inner mischief-elf that lives within all ten year
>> olds.) I was tempted to bow down before her and kiss her feet, but
>> I assumed that it would weird her out and would be misinterpreted as
>> just being a pervert. If anyone has a chance to see it tomorrow in
>> the barn, I think it would be worth the trip.
>> SO the Shakespeare camp first session of 2010 has set the bar
>> pretty high.
>>
>>
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Just got back from seeing Doc's Shakespeare camp for kids perform MND. It was a wonderful performance, excellent ensemble, very good use of a multitude of musical instruments, Clayton's Augie doing a great job as Bottom, and an excellent Oberon (and the same guy played Snug the joiner/lion). AND a Puck to knock your socks off. (Maybe being about 3'6" and 40 lbs gives you an advantage in looking right for the role, but this kid was ROMPING. I think she was channeling the inner mischief-elf that lives within all ten year olds.) I was tempted to bow down before her and kiss her feet, but I assumed that it would weird her out and would be misinterpreted as just being a pervert. If anyone has a chance to see it tomorrow in the barn, I think it would be worth the trip.
SO the Shakespeare camp first session of 2010 has set the bar pretty high.