The 19th Fall Festival of Shakespeare (almost)

(sorry that this picture is a little wonky, but it's the best I could do.)

Greetings, all. This weekend we are running The Winter's Tale at the high school before next week's mega-event wherein all ten high schools involved will perform their shows one after another for four days at Founders' Theater(where we saw Hamlet and Merry Wives). So in this tiny corner of the world right now, Facebook is alive with the sounds of Shakespeare, and my mother's church choir practice was gutted because everyone was out supporting the local high school's Romeo and Juliet. It's amazing to me how much the whole community gets behind Shakespeare in this county.

As with most things, now that it's almost over I finally have an idea how to begin. Since my next contract with S&Co is to do a Middle School production of Macbeth starting the minute Fall Festival is over, I'll have plenty more opportunity to screw things up--I mean learn. Joking aside, I'm loving the work and I'm learning a ton about artisitc collabortation (working with so many other adults and their opinions is challenging my shyness!) as well as how to work with different kinds of kids (this group in WT was very difficult and slow to warm up.) And of course, hearing bits and pieces of Julius Caesar and Macbeth brings back so many fond memories of our NITS summer. Here's hoping you all are well and are having great years with your students!