Comments on: Four Shrews and a Merchant

By: Twin Buffets, One and a Half Merchants, and a Treatise on Volume in Stage Acting « Bardolatry: True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:52:43 +0000

[...] phone reception), was consequently not on an inverse relationship with the area food, but I think this correlation only works for campuses. N.B. For anyone wondering, ‘What is a life on tour really like?’ the [...]

By: More Shakespeare, More West Virginia, More Nerdy Verbiage « Bardolatry: True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:48:24 +0000

[...] Luckily, we had another performance of Merchant of Venice in Buckhannon. The theater was beautiful; it reminded me a little of the theater in which I did Romeo and Juliet in college, only with a larger stage, a smaller house, and more humane acoustics. So the similarities were basically age, and a balcony that curved all the way around the house from one side of the stage to the other, supported by columns that created side galleries below. (For those of you seeking another visual cue, both Paul and Scot employed different film references to say it reminded them of a 1950s courthouse.) Audience members were forbidden from sitting in the balcony because it can no longer support large amounts of weight. Whilst some part of me acknowledges this as a drawback, the other part of me finds it really exciting, though whether from my Romantic / Gothic love of old and crumbling buildings, or some residual spirit of Gladys from Tennessee Williams’ These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch, I am not sure. [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:27:30 +0000

I vote ‘d.’ : )

By: The Price of Fame « Bardolatry: True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd

The Price of Fame « Bardolatry: True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:11:10 +0000

[...] above poster is from our week-long engagement at Fairmont, and is my favourite version of the many posters strewn about the campus. You know you’ve [...]