http://briefepisode.com/2008/10/24/were-the-world-mine/ Start with a movie centered around a production of Midsummer.  Not new (Dead Poet’s Society, among others, springs to mind). Now imagine that the character playing Puck whips up a *real* love potion that works on his fellow actors, and then runs around spraying it on everyone in town.  All heck breaks loose, as … Continue reading Were The World Mine : Musical Midsummer Movie?

http://www.baltimoreshakespeare.org/Muse/ScaryFairies.htm I found this brief article interesting.  It’s all about how, prior to Shakespeare, “fairies” were actually scary little beasts that people feared.  It also puts Puck/Robin Goodfellow into a bit of context, for anybody why in the beginning of Dream one of the characters says “Hey, I know you!  You’re Robin Goodfellow!”  He is … Continue reading Scary Fairies

http://www.chasingthebard.com I may have mentioned this podcast/podiobook in passing when I first tripped over it. Let me now get back to it. I love it. I love it love it love it, I think it might well be my favorite podiobook yet (and that’s saying something, as I’ve gone through several dozen of them). Imagine … Continue reading Chasing The Bard

My regular readers know that I’ve been waiting for this show for a year.  You see, I quite literally work across the street from Boston Common now.  So last year, after less than stellar seats at Taming of the Shrew, I told my wife, “Next year, for one night, I want to just walk over … Continue reading Boston Shakespeare In The Park

My friend over at the Hubble Telescope sent me an email this morning about the moons of Uranus. Apparently such things are named by theme. No big surprise that Shakespeare Characters is a typical theme (I tend to name my computers that way). What’s interesting is the actual choice of characters: ARIEL UMBRIEL TITANIA OBERON … Continue reading Moons of Uranus