Yikes! We’re almost to the middle of the year!!

After a live theater drought, we had two Sundays in a row at local live theatres.

I mentioned seeing The Book of Will at the Curtis on our anniversary. It’s about Shakespeare’s friends attempting to publish a folio of his plays.

I bought my complete Shakespeare, including the sonnets, on a teenage trip to Stratford-upon-Avon but I never stopped to think how the plays had been compiled. Turns out there wasn’t an equivalent to Samuel French, the company that publishes plays currently, in the 1600’s, so the scripts had to be gathered from actors and producers, and a search launched for a publisher willing to take a gamble on a fancy book of plays. Filled with love and loss, the most excellent cast gave us a lovely afternoon of theatre.