The wife and I went to see the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged in Centennial Park tonight. It was rollicking good fun. I was crying from laughing so hard – pretty much the whole way through.
On our way there, driving down Eastland passing RosePepper and Ugly Mugs we were confronted with this glorious sight, so I had to get out and stand in the road and take a picture!
Sunset
And then after parking, the Parthenon was looking quite glorious so I had to capture that as well, all before the show even began.
The Parthenon at Dusk
Only three actors were involved in the production.
Bradley Brown (As a humble narrator)
Christopher Campbell (As Julius Caesar? It was hard to keep track)
Benjamin Reed (Giving the second most famous speech from Hamlet)
There was a great deal of cross-dressing, editing liberties, misinformation, more editing liberties, some choice dialogue from across the Bard’s plays, and all the comedies condensed into one section because as we all found out, the Tragedies are much more comedic than the comedies.
For the full set of pictures, hop on over to my Flickr, where I uploaded 12 more pictures of the actors performing their wonderful trade.
Thank you so much for playing with us at Shakespeare in the Park! I hope we will see you again at Winter Shakespeare in the Troutt Theater this Janaury.
Your photos are fabulous, Winston! So glad you and your wife had a good time in the Park! Glad you caught those images of the sunset and Parthenon, too. The moon rises have been spectacular throughout the run as well.
Stay in touch! =Denice