Sunday, March 1, 2009

LLL.

I did a play reading this afternoon for Shakespeare Santa Barbara for the show they are producing this summer, Love's Labour's Lost. It was super informal, just a bunch of actors who participated in previous shows getting together to read the play.

It was great to see the people I worked with a couple years ago when I did Comedy of Errors, even if LLL is probably one of my least favorite Shakespeare plays. It's really unfortunate that there are so many amazing plays and they have picked this one for this coming season.

It's long and drawn out and an insane amount of exposition with very little action. It is really easy to get lost in the language because nothing really happens other than people droning on and on for three hours. That said, it is a very romantic and as per usual with Shakespeare, beautifully written, but the humor and beauty gets lost in the drudgery of insane word puzzles and strange tangents.

Jackie Apodaca is directing it and I know she will cut it up. She's an awesome lady and it would be fun to work with her. Well onstage, because I used to nanny for her kids in real life. Clearly the theatre is not real life.

I think lot's of what I do is not real life.

How is the weekend already over?

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