Just got word that the Salem, Mass group Rebel Shakespeare is set to receive a “major award” for their work in making the Salem parks a better place, specifically regarding their 2008 Romeo and Juliet production.  The Rebels range in age from 5-19, and I got the chance to see a least a piece of their Henry V last summer.  I hate that I missed their Romeo and Juliet, where somebody had the absolutely brilliant idea to play it out in and around one of those massive playground climbing structures in the middle of the park.  Congratulations to Keri and Christine, leaders of the Rebel forces!  I look forward to catching several of their shows this year – maybe I’ll get the geeklets to Midsummer?  We shall see…

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=401633472&blogID=468835770 12 I keepe my Stashe hidden in our seconde best bedde. Shhh. Don’t tell the Fyve-Oh.   !! I love it.

http://bigtweet.com/c/b/twitter/lowercase_dave/38uA88 I’m at least somewhat familiar with the Marlowe authorship story – faked his death, blah blah blah.  Here we have a nice little 15 minutes of video from a documentary filmmaker who goes into detail about why he believes the theory.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/poll/2009/feb/04/shakespeare-hall-fame I like the idea.  Loses major credibility for including Leonardo DiCaprio, who no matter how good he may or may not have been as Romeo still really has just the one credit to his name – but maybe they felt the need to pull in the younger crowd? What’s cooler is that we get to vote on the remaining member. But how could it *not* be John Gielgud?  He gets my vote. UPDATE:  The results make it look like David Tennant is a shoe-in.  That upsets me, I hate popularity contests.  I’m sure the Dr. Who guy is a fine Shakespearean actor, but I mean come on, Gielgud was doing Shakespeare longer than Tennant’s been alive!

http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/01/13/hitler-shakespeares-most-controversial-fan.htm I think I missed this when it came around a few weeks ago.  Hitler was in the habit of quoting (badly) Julius Caesar? It doesn’t bother me as much as others, it seems.  It’s not like Mr. Shakespeare had anything to do with what Mr. Hitler did with his life.