Meidoko
This year we spent several evenings at the Green Show while at Ashland. (A third evening isn't pictured.) These are free performances, often quite different from anything I can see or listen to elsewhere.
When I was child and into my younger adult years, the Green Show was always based on Elizabethan music and dancing. I loved it, became quite the fan of madrigals, and wished I could dance like that. When the shows changed, I wasn't happy. (Who among us adjusts easily to change - especially that which we didn't know was coming?) It took me a number of years to appreciate what I now enjoy. It's a totally different experience - it rarely immerses you in Shakespeare's time - but rather it takes you across time, across cultures, around the world. Given enough time, even someone like me can learn to like change.
We are back home, now. We are, of course, debating among ourselves which plays we liked the best and why, which performances were most outstanding and (most important) what would you like to see next year. There are two of Shakespeare's plays being performed next year I haven't yet seen - it may be time to cross them off the list.
As I sat at the Green Show, walked through Lithia Park, camped with my older sister and my husband, and enjoyed meals with my son, daughter-in-law, and her parents, I appreciated what a rich gift I'd been given. Our parents started taking us to the festival when we were in elementary school. We started our son attending when he was in first grade. We all still love live theatre...we all still love Shakespeare. And we all enjoy going together, sharing the bond of that particular beauty, that particular love.
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