Twelfth Night

Seeing shows at the Shakespeare Festival has become a summer tradition for us. This summer one of our friends is performing in several of the plays again. So, of course, we wanted to support him. Tonight we saw Twelfth Night.

Shortly after we sat it began to rain. At first we planned to stay in our seats, but when it started raining harder we took shelter under some trees in the back of the audience. Fortunately it let up after about 15 minutes.

We went back tour seats and the actors started to gather on the stage for some preshow activities. We found our friend easily. An actress in costume walked down our row and complained she couldn’t find any children. I pointed to Marina and she invited her to speak with Lady Olivia. So the two of them went onstage and had a conversation with a few more actors before the show began. Marina said she was telling Lady Olivia some jokes.

The show started with a storm, appropriately enough. The rain continued on and off during Act I. At times the actors references the weather, but most of the time they ignored it. Fortunately it had stopped by intermission. I was impressed at how well Marina was following the action of the show.

After the show ended, we waited for the audience to clear out and then waited for our friend. Marina put away quite a few seat backs while we were waiting. He talked with us for quite a while. He asked if Marina had been onstage before the show – apparently he recognized her from behind! After we talked for a while, he took Marina onstage for a photo.