Tag: William Shakespeare

As to playing Prospero? Jolyn Unruh remembers her inner thoughts: “I’m just recovering from cancer treatment, and I’m exhausted and I’m kind of overwhelmed — I’m finishing my master’s degree—but I would never say no to that!”

For the past 50 years, however, I’ve been very successful at losing weight and estimate I’ve dumped more than 300 pounds overboard.

Tackling this play, including editing it cleanly, is an achievement, one that director Tina Packer has undertaken nobly and completed successfully. I would not have missed this for anything.

Not your usual one-person play, this play is about the journey of a man's real life, a man who is compelled through circumstance to be a loner first, last and always.

“Poetry has solidified for me the importance of art in my life. It's easy for me to discount my propensity for drama as a hobby, but this is my passion. Sharing emotion with people is probably what I love to do most, and I think this experience has reinforced that I should be doing precisely that.” -- Caroline Sprague, state champion in the Poetry Out Loud competition

Lincoln reflected upon how often, too often, the deaths of kings were violent. A leader reflected upon murdered leaders before he was murdered.

Thanks to the genius of Director Tony Simotes, we find everything we love and a great deal more in this production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."