Monday, February 22, 2010

Shakespeare

This week we are getting ready for something slightly exciting, well, maybe very exciting! Benjamin Bunny and I are participating in our local CM group's presentation of "The Comedy of Errors"! I'm peronally excited about this. When asked, this is Benjamin's response to his participation:

Well, I like doing it, but I really wanted to do a boy, like some of the other parts, and stuff, a boy, like longer paragraphs to read and memorize. I want to do more lines, but two lines is good. I'm looking forward to being there and also having my daddy there. I like acting out Shakespear's plays, but I don't like having to act like a girl and do a girl's part. But it's neat that I am going to be a gold maker. I don't know if I'm going to have to wear gold chains, because I am a gold maker. I don't want to have to wear my Mommy's gold necklaces, but I could make my own out of plastic!


The part of the gold maker is a man. The reason that he spoke about acting a girl's part is because when we were first deciding who would play which parts, one of the only parts left was a girl. Ignorantly, I said that he would do that (boy was I embarrased!), but they stopped us and found a boy part for him. I ended up in the part of the girl that I nearly placed my poor son into. Ha! We are also making a door for this play. It's going to be fun. We have a dress rehearsal on Friday afternoon then that same evening will be the performance. We only have a few families participating in this presentation. Each family has the option to present any scene that they wish from the play and then at the end, all will come together to present a group scene. Since this is our first year, the two of us are only doing the group scene.

I will try to remember to get back on Friday night or Saturday morning and post any available pictures or snippits of video we might get!


And in closing, in the words of the man himself:
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
~William Shakespeare

Depend not on the stars, but on the person God made you to be and become the greatness He needs you to be!

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