Will's Eve

[nineweaving]

Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow.

What have been your most vivid experiences, hearing, seeing, reading Shakespeare?

Among so many others, I remember an idyllic Edwardian Love's Labours Lost, on a lawn by the river Cam, under the willows (there were strawberries and cream in the interval); that black-and-white galliard at the close

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[lnhammer]

One of my first live experiences was in ninth grade, a performance of MacBeth on the campus of Howard University, set in some African kingdom whose significance escaped me at the time -- it had drums and intensity.

---L.

[nineweaving]

Wow. And the witches?

Nine

[lnhammer]

I don't remember them specifically, aside from it obviously being an all-black cast.

---L.

[nineweaving]

"A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come!"

It must have been terrific.

Nine

[lnhammer]

The acrobatic fight scenes, with long spears, was especially exiting.

---L.

[nineweaving]

Long spears! That does sound thrilling.

Nine