Nicole Black is in the third grade at Wade Thomsas Elementary.

I loved Marin Shakespeare Summer Camp.  I loved that we got to play so many fun games like Mafia or Assassin!  So far I’ve been in the camp for 2 summers.  One of the summers I was in 2 shows.  I think that these plays were the best ever!!!  The shows I have been in are Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth.  I will totally do this again.  You should go to Marin Shakespeare Summer Camp because it is so much fun and Shakespeare is part of  history!!!

Julia Schulman is nine years old and attends St. Mark’s School.  This is what she has to say about her experience with Marin Shakespeare Camp.

On my first day at Marin Shakespeare Camp at the Marin Arts and Garden Center, I was so excited.  This was going to be my second time there. I saw my old friends and met some new friends. At first, we played a fun memory game to learn each other’s names and then we did warm ups for our voices. Next, the counselors, two actors from the Marin Shakespeare Company, called us up on stage to work on projection. We announced our names, our favorite movie/book and last but not least, performed a cool move while saying, “Tada!” At the end of the first day, the camp counselors gave us a monologue for auditioning. “You can memorize a small part or just read from it. If you want a challenge, try to learn more of it.” I was so inspired, I memorized the whole thing. The next day, we each acted out the monologue and then got our parts. I was surprised because I got Antony in Antony & Cleopatra! For the next week and a half, we learned a lot about the play. We learned how to change our voice tones, what the play meant, and how to pronounce the words.  The day before the performance, our teachers were so proud of us that they let us play the most fun game ever where you had to figure out who committed a pretend crime! The day of the play, I was nervous. I slipped on my costume and then ran onto the stage, saying my first line, “My dearest queen…” It was very creative how we did the play, using the area around the stage and in the aisle between the audience’s seats.  We had a cast party after the play where we drank lemonade, ate brownies, and talked about what a good time we all had. This camp taught me many skills in a fun way. I was sad when it was over and now I can’t wait until next summer. This camp rates a ten out of ten!

“Travesties” on Albert Goodwyn’s 2010 Top 5 productions list

Published Jan. 6:
Albert Goodwyn’s 2010 Top 5 article appears in the SF Bay Times

Link: http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=14391

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!

MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lesley Schisgall Currier

July 8 – August 14

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”

Murder, remorse, and madness stalk this bloody story of ambition and fate.

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THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged)
by Adam Long, Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor
Directed by Robert Currier

July 22 – September 25

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

This manic, irreverent romp through our nation’s story may leave you edified, but will certainly leave you laughing.

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THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jon Tracy

August 19 – September 25

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

A magical, mysterious exploration of revenge and forgiveness, and the transitoriness of dreams.

A huge welcome to wunderkind director Jon Tracy, who will bring his own brand of magic to this enchanting romance.

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Pity the poor person who has to read this play and try and make sense of it. That would be me in college.One of the problems is that there are so many rapid reversals of fortune, emotion and loyalty. But the appreciation of this play is in the doing of it not the reading. This production made it all clear and electrifying.Surrounded by her adoring bookends Cleopatra’s animated face, gestures and body language make her instantaneous changes of mood very believable, seductive and curiously modern.Later in the show Antony enters exulting in triumph in battle and in the very next scene enters in despair of defeat. By now the audience has been conditioned to the compression of time and it works beautifully.Special kudos for Enorbarbus for his masterful performance in his soliloquies which are themselves a play within the play echoing the themes of frail humanity caught up in grand historical events.

OMG! Shakespeare must be smiling down on Forest Meadows at the conversion of our three ‘cursed’ scoffers into enthusiastically ‘obedient’ applauders last Friday night (following the world-class Rat Girl and her Cirque du Sewer warm up act) at the Taming of the Shrew.My son actually said, “Thank you, Mom, for taking me to see this!” after the show. Now when he reads the play this year in 9th grade, he will have seen it as Will meant it to be enjoyed. Thank you, thank you, thank you one and all for your fine efforts on the boards.Kudos to ‘Cap’n Jack Petruchio’ for a brilliant layered performance.I only wish my son’s entire English class could come and see your show. Many thanks to everyone!!

We love Stoppard and have seen Travesties, a few times—from ACT to Ashland. So . . . I was a little apprehensive. No need! This was a stellar performance. Bravo to all the “stars”—actors, stagehands, director, set and costume people. We look forward to the rest of the season.

We attended last nite’s preview performance and thoroughly enjoyed the evening!  This is our 3rd year of attending your performances, and they are great!  Thank you!

I saw the preview of “Travesties night” – thoroughly enjoyed it. Bravo to William Elsman in his part as Henry Carr. What a performance. I think he should be more singled out at time of bows. Cast should part or stand back so he can get the recognition due.Well done by all.

I enjoyed the word play as well as the bouncing around of both ideas and people in “Travesties”.I am amazed at the abilities of the actors to memorize so much; however, the play is too long.