As You Like It

I went to go see "As You Like It" at the Stratford Festival. Stratford is a pretty little town about an hour and half outside of Toronto, kinda in the middle of nowhere. While I could never imagine living there (too isolated for me) the beauty was astonishing. A culturally filled downtown core (the town consisting of 30,000 people so downtown was 2 blocks) and a beautiful walking path along a river, filled with ducks and small inlets with weeping willows perfect for a picnic.

It was a nice romantic getaway to say the least.

The production of "As You Like It" was done with a very interesting twist, set in the 70's and with music written by the Bare Naked Ladies. It was hilarious.

I find it interesting Shakespeare was a proto-feminist while at the same time the most misogynistic playwrights of all time. The man could also write a great epilogue and pray it would make his audience forgive him.

I don't think Shakespeare liked to write endings. They always seem be the same (depending on the genre) and as if he wrote it 2 minutes before curtain. Don't get me wrong, he was a brilliant writer blah blah blah, but sometimes I wonder.

What if Shakespeare was a soap opera writer? Wouldn't it be perfect for him? Was he not truly the first soap opera writer? Mistaken identies, long lost twin brothers, suspicious paternity, everything magically working out in the end?



Just a thought...


-LMK