Outdoor Theatre Groups Take Over Local Parks, Shout About Bleeding Pricks & Fat, Drunken Reprobates
It's Shakespeare, so you can't complain. That's just "Shakespearean language." Here it is, Act III, Scene 1 from The Merchant of Venice:
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die?Anyway, in Seattle we've got outdoor theatre options, and most of them are in Volunteer Park this weekend, July 14 & 15, for the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival. There are four free plays each day; things kick off at noon on Saturday, 11am on Sunday. (See the companies' sites for their full summer schedules.)
Wooden O Theatre is doing The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor, the former being the one with Shylock and the latter being the one with Falstaff.
Last Leaf is performing Twelfth Night -- that's the one with Malvolio -- and GreenStage is putting on Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine and Proteus) and Richard III (winter of our discontent, etc.), plus the Young Shakespeare Workshop is doing King Lear (ah, Cordelia...always makes us think of BtVS).
Breaking out of the whole Shakespeare thing is Theater Schmeater, who have The Reluctant Dragon on tap -- but since this is a Shakespeare-loving dragon, it's not that much of a stretch. We still remember the 1941 Disney film -- "Oh, I'm the reluctant dragon. What ho! Quite so!" Man, that was one gay gay gay dragon. "I'm to be Queen of the May today!"
