At the American Players Theater today. The play was "The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool." Excellent play, I thought, and the acting was astounding.I just bought my ticket this morning, one of the last available seats for the matinee. That's why my view of the set is all the way to one side, but it didn't diminish my enjoyment of the performances. I highly recommend the show, but it's sold out for the rest of its run. Instead, take a chance on anything playing at APT. We're going out again soon, this time to see "King Lear." Like "King Lear," "The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool" has an aged monarch with a succession problem and a Fool character. The same actor, Josh Krause, plays both fools this summer.
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This isn't a cafe post. The cafe post is one down. Please just talk about the theater.
I'll need to watch for this one. Can't say I like the set design, far too Georgian -- the square-lintel doorways. the bas-relief classical columns, the bust on a plinth -- and not at all Tudor. Perhaps living in an anachronistic palace is one of the queen's many problems.
“ Please just talk about the theater.”
Dignity, always dignity!
I just learned about theatrical haze.
I thought of Lizzie First of the Name too, but apparently it's not her.
Queen Adahlia, eh? Not the Virgin Queen, but a completely fictional character. Modern playwrights prefer no boundaries to the rough shackles of history. It's so much easier, isn't it?
Just talk about the theater? Mrs. Lincoln approves.
Monarchs and their court jesters, that's more of a Renaissance thing. By the middle of the 18th century, there was no more "occupation: foole" Tsarina Anna Ivanovna employed one the last, Joan d'Acosta (a man, btw). Charles II ended the tradition in England. (The Merry Monarch presumably didn't need one.)
What timeframe does Queen Adahlia occupy? Some Tolkienesque fantasy world? I couldn't say from this promotional clip.
Narr writes, "I just learned about theatrical haze."
Imagine a theatre's interior in Mozart's lit by thousands of tallow candles in chandeliers and wall sconces. We don't usually think of candles and smoke, but our candles are usually paraffin, which burns with very little smoke, and we burn them just for the novelty -- but tallow? It must have been pretty hazy by Act III of Le Nozze di Figaro.
"I'll need to watch for this one. Can't say I like the set design, far too Georgian -- the square-lintel doorways. the bas-relief classical columns, the bust on a plinth -- and not at all Tudor."
The "Virgin Queen" is not Elizabeth I of England, but a queen in an unspecified time and place.
"The "Virgin Queen" is not Elizabeth I of England, but a queen in an unspecified time and place."
So I gather.
Theatrical haze, all in my brain
Lately things dont seem the same
Elizabethan, or Georgian - which?
Scuse me while I kiss this…..guy!
Theatrical haze all around
Dont know if the curtain’s up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, Althouse put a spell on me
Help me!
JSM
Is this a feather which I see before me, the handle towards my hand?
Like how in The Winter's Tale Bohemia had a seacoast.
Exit: Pursued by bear.
Whichever, we shall meet at Philippi.
Well...I've got to say, you've intrigued me this year with the American Players Theater. I've heard about it over the years, but never paid much attention to it because, well...geography. One of the reasons we moved to Sarasota was the amazing array of arts, covering all segments in such a small(ish) town. Theater, symphony, ballet, opera, multiple museums of various types (including a Museum of Whimsy), and a large population of artists, writers, performers living here. So there's plenty do to here, but...we don't have a theater of the reputation you apparently have there, set in such a beautiful woodsy atmosphere. The entire atmosphere just seems, well...worth a trip.
I do believe I'm going to sell this to my wife- that we make a trek to Wisconsin next season. We'll pick a play and attend it. It just made my bucket list.
If I'm lucky, I may be anonymously in the same crowd as some other Althouse cast members.
quite a reversal of role performance instead of fool entertain queen
but tho we are not amused by Kamala cackle her reign may entertain!
Brutal weather for outdoor theatre. Hot and corn sweat humid.
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