Alexx's Journal

kestrell and I went out to see the free Shakespeare on the Common, which this year is "A Midsummer Night's Dream". There we ran into bess and cristovau, always a fine thing, and we sat together.

Tonight's performance was billed as a "dress rehearsal" before the actual run starts on Teusday. In fact, they were behind schedule, so this was more of a tech rehearsal, starting in Act II, and with lots of stops and starts. If the show had been particularly compelling, we might have been willing to watch a lot of that. Not so much, as it turns out. The fairies are costumed in day-glo neon colors, with unfortunate big hair, and when they sing, it's like a bad 80s MTV video. So after not very much of this, we split, with B&C going to a movie, and Kes and I coming home.

One particularly fun thing did come out of the evening though. We had a bunch of meta-theater discussion with B&C before the "show" and during the stopped bits, which led at point to Kes uttering the pivotal phrase: "Huh, I've never considered this play as a slasher flick before." We worked out many more details on the journey home. So I here present the outline of "A Midsummer Night's Scream":

( Violence, profanity, and rampant Shakespeare abuse below the cut. )