Shakespeare Festival in D.C.
It appears that Washington D.C. just started a six-month Shakespeare festival.
From the looks of it, it promises to be quite something:
The “Shakespeare in Washington” festival, conceived two years ago by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), kicks off with a free reading of “Twelfth Night.” It will include more than 500 performances, ensuring that every week will be packed with shows and exhibitions – paintings, music, dance, film, opera and theater – either written or inspired by one of the world’s most famous playwrights.
I’m starting to get jealous, but just a bit, since New York City is hardly a slouch in the Shakespeare department. All the same, I guess I’ll have to plan a trip to D.C. sometime in the next six months.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Well, you’ve a couch to crash on if you come down. I’ll try to keep chainsmoking and weeping to the barest minimums.
If you time it right, we may even have something to celebrate (“Gosh, it isn’t every day a guy graduates . . .” “How many times have I heard that before?”)
January 8th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Thanks for visiting, Lee, and thanks for the invite, which I will definitely take you up on.
I’m thinking Middle-March, which is possibly too soon for a celebration, but I know I’ll want to make another trip down when the time comes.