Stratford raises another curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
Right Here’s parents were first thrilled by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at its birth when the Bard and all the world and the players and the amazed audience were under a tent.
That amazing tent vanished in the 1950s, but tradition of Shakespeare at Stratford continues this week when the festival’s 2008 season opens tomorrow with Romeo and Juliet at the Festival Theatre. Right Here expects to be there and enthralled for the star crossed lovers and to return on Tuesday, for the opening of Hamlet, and later in the week, blogs and videos at lfpress.com will come of all this, it is hoped.
Hamlet, directed by Adrian Noble, and starring Ben Carlson as the prince of indecision, has a London on-stage connection five minutes into the performance. On stage with the melancholy Dane and his friends and foes will be UWO Don Wright music faculty professor emeritus Jerome Summers, his clarinet and two costumes. “While I don’t have a speaking role, it is quite a new experience to learn lines and blocking in order to get my playing cues,” Summers says of his role in a small musical ensemble.
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