Love's Labors Lost

[deliasherman]

I have a review of The Nance started for you, but first I HAVE to tell about our adventure tonight.  Because it was a real--if mild--adventure, of the completely unplanned and serendipitous kind, and even while it was happening I didn't quite believe it

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[birdhousefrog]

How lovely! Such a great way to spend an anniersary.

Out here, on the east end of things, I watch the water a lot. We've had gorgeous days lately, and crisp nights. The Mouse King is now working its way into a novel, combining all the storylines. It's not 7am and someone is out fishing in the Sound. Fresh corn, fresh mozzarella, fresh greens. NY license and NY plates on my car. NYC is both a million miles away and something that looms to the west with all its teeming masses, something I have to drive around to get home. (Unless I take the ferry to New England.)

The VA house closes Aug 30, we hope. Two weeks to close out that chapter.

Oz

[lareinenoire]

Oh, what a wonderful evening, and on your anniversary too! (Congratulations!) It sounds like a lovely production of LLL, and you're so right about the Princess as very much the eye of the storm whose personality is a blank slate. I really enjoyed Mariah Gale in Stratford a few years ago and she brought some of that energy to her Ophelia, but I think the director must have intervened before the mad scene.

The improv/script combination is fascinating and it feels...well, oddly early modern, if that makes any sense? Jigs and dances and random musical numbers and clowns doing improv while the guy who wrote the play facepalms backstage and imagines a world without clowns...sounds about right to me. ;)

[alfreda89]

So tremendously lovely, needing that lush overstatement on my part! Thank you for sharing the magic with us.

[sartorias]

That sounds like the perfect anniversary surprise!

[auroramama]

Congratulations, and mazel tov! And yes, she is, and you deserve every bit of it.