This is Adara's favorite kitchen toy. When I'm cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, this is usually what she does. Well, this and also put random things in the cupboards. I found a shoe of hers inside the frying pans the other day. Lovely. Reminds me of fairy tales and eating boiled leather soles.
On Friday night we went to a free Shakespearean festival. This month they are performing "As You Like It." It was good, if obviously short of funds. The costumes mixed various time periods, but don't ask me to guess which time periods those are. The only one I can identify for sure is the modern one. For the most part, I thought the modern clothes fit in well and did not distract from the performance; however, when Orlando came on-stage at one point wearing ear phones and singing "We are the Champions", I thought that was a bit distracting.
Otherwise, the inclusion of modern and local North Carolina cultural elements added a unique flavor to the performance. I especially liked the banjo player who strolled and plucked around the stage during scene changes. Very fitting for the setting we were in.
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Shakespeare and a banjo. Hmmmm... now that's one I haven't seen done with my 9th graders. Maybe I'll suggest it for next year -- Bluegrass Shakespeare.
I don't think I would've liked Orlando with an iPod either.
Thank you for the validation. And for liking bluegrass. I wonder why it isn't more popular outside of its homeland? On second thought, maybe it's because bluegrass has spawned songs such as the following, which Jon and I heard as we were driving through Tennessee:
I work all night and I work all day
Life just ain't worth livin' this way
Work the soles right off of my shoes
I got the poor boy workin' blues.
The song that came after that one was even better, though. I'm sure it was written pre-1980, as the singer expressed a desire to be ready for the rapture, which would precede a nuclear disaster caused by the cold war.
I wonder how Shakespeare would have addressed that particular situation?
Well, one of the Bulgarian women in my program wants to download some of the bluegrass on my computer to hers. And remember how our band on the tours used to get everyone's attention? Remember how the crowd in Billingham used to go nuts over "Dueling Banjos," even when it was played with a banjo and a mandolin? People do like bluegrass when they hear it, I think.
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