“Keep it as factual as possible.” says Kim Taylor, Marin Shakespeare Company’s PR manager, as I ask for advice on writing about my experience performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with inmates at San Quentin Prison.  I want to make sure I am as factual as possible, so I look up the word […]

This may seem like a strange memory, but it is truly a testamanet to the appeal Shakespeare has to children. 2 years ago we brought our 11 year old grandson to see MSC’s production of Much Ado About Nothing . During the first part of the play I looked at him and didn’t get sense […]

During the closing season of Marin Shakes at the Marin Art and Garden Center, I played Portia in a production of “Merchant of Venice” with Dick Matthews, now the rich and famous Dakin Matthews of TV fame (at least I hope he’s rich!)  It was a lovely production directed by Ann Brebner. The following summer I […]

I remember attending a performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” at Dominican when Marin Shakespeare first performed it there, maybe 20 years ago?! My, how time flies when you’re having fun in Marin!For me the most wondrous moment was during Act 3, Scene 1 where Titania wakes and falls in love with the enchanted Bottom, […]

Having performed at Forest Meadows for only a single season, I have fewer memories to choose among than do the actors (hello, George and Cat!) who have already shared their remembrances below.  But I nonetheless have plenty.  Particularly prominent are my memories of doing matinee performances of King Lear and Alice in Wonderland during the Great Heat Wave of 2006.  The air temperature in San Rafael reportedly topped […]