Some things are always the same when I come to the Utah Shakespearean Festival.
I always eat a tart ($2.00 this year. Shocking!).
I always visit Ye Olde Catholic Thrift Shoppe.
I always get a veggie sandwich with delightful French feta at The Pastry Pub.
I always force whoever I'm with to go to the audience orientations to the plays and to the Greenshow.
But I never go to the seminars. The Festival offers free seminars the morning after each play, and the audience is encouraged to ask questions and discuss the previous night's (or day's) performance with directors and actors. My family never attended the seminars when I was a child, because I was a child. And when I grew up and began attending the Festival without my family, I never attended the seminars because, apparently, I'm an idiot. My parents and I participated in two seminars this morning--a discussion of "Othello" and the actors' seminar with James Newcomb and Jonathan Peck (the actors who play Othello and Iago). Wonderful! There were a few tedious people asking questions in the audience, but overall it was really interesting. The seminars are going on the list of things I always do when I come to the Festival.
Tomorrow: Cyrano de Bergerac, Cedar City's only organic restaurant, and more hating of people who tan topless at my hotel swimming pool.
2 comments:
The seminars are my absolute favorite. When they did Camelot I went to an actors seminar with Brian Vaughn (King Arthur) and Michael Sharon (Lancelot). So wonderful. But yes there are some stupid questions.
Also, the pastry pub is one of my musts as is a tart.
Oooh, that would have been a good seminar! My mom is so sold on the seminars now that we think we might try to stay and see one tomorrow morning, even though I have to catch a plane later in the day, and I'll be cutting it close between when we leave here and when I get to the airport.
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