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February 25, 2008
Julio & Romiet
"Ahh, the sentimental one, she's wish to play Julio and Romiet" *
Tim: We had a blast of Shakespearean proportions on Saturday night. We went to the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern to see Romeo and Juliet (full text!). What a cool place! The theatre is small, intimate and somewhat in the round. There are tables with all the seats so you can dine on excellent pub grub as you watch the play. Joanna had a cornish pasty, I had shepherd's pie, we shared a wild mushroom soup and we washed it all down with a Rouge Shakespeare Stout and a Samuel Smith Oatmeal Porter. During the interval, we had tiramisu cheesecake and coffee.
"Julio, Julio, herefore art me Romiet." *
Oh yeah, and then there was the play. The actors were terrific as they trounced through the text trippingly on their tongues. The period costumes were beautiful, the lighting and staging were good, even the swordplay was pretty realistic (they even bled!). The only criticism I have was that there were too many bawdy jokes. Now there are a LOT of bawdy jokes in Romeo and Juliet (especially in the scenes with the nurse!), but the actors milked sexual double entendres out of every line they could (especially the guy playing Mercutio). Other than that, a near-perfect rendering of a perfect play. One thing I had forgotten in R&J was that Romeo encounters and kills Paris as he enters the tomb where Juliet lies asleep.
"Ahh, my little much ado about something." *
Before the play started when I was in line to get our grub, I looked behind me and saw Professor Peter Saccio from Dartmouth. I said to myself "I know him from somewhere." Then I remembered that I have his two lecture series on Shakespeare from the Teaching Company. I barged into the conversation he was having with some other people and gushingly thanked him for the lectures. I had a real geek moment. Some people get all flustered when they see a movie star or a rock musician. I get flustered over a professor. He thanked me for helping to fund his retirement and told me a little about what it's like lecturing to a camera instead of a class full of students.
Joanna: While we waited for the show to start, I perused the program, which contained audience members' opinions on their favorite characters from plays, wherein I found this quote about Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing-somewhat pertinent to our own courtship...
"[My favorite character is] Benedick. Reason--as a self-proclaimed bachelor for life (who has now been happily married for over 22 years in June!) I understand fully how Benedick's rational arguments and bluster against love and marriage fell to pieces when confronted by a lively, intellectual, witty partner."--Gregory H.
"Ahh, my little lost labor's loved." *
*Quotes from "Past Perfumance" Pepe le Pew, 1955.
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"You are ze peanut, I am ze brittle!" Not only do you lavish your post with Pepe quotes, you give me one of the cartoon right there! Oh, you know my weaknesses!
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"This small one, she wants to play seek and go hide!"
Posted by: earthgirl at February 25, 2008 10:07 PM