A weekend of Shakespeare

Today I am recovering from an amazing weekend of Shakespeare. It started Saturday afternoon when I say my grade 4 LAMDA exam and performed my Duchess of Gloucester speech from Richard II. Which after all the fretting went well. It wasn't amazing but it went well. Then Saturday night a few of us from Abingdon Drama Club went to see Didcot Phoenix Drama Group production of Loves Labour Lost as a fellow ADC member was playing the part of The Princess. She was fantastic but having seen the play in Stratford when I was in college it just didn't make it in my eyes. It was a good production, don't get me wrong there were some actors that were really good but it was too mechanical and didn't have the emphasis in the right places in some parts and the fake laughing because that is where the audience should be laughing was getting on my nerves ever so slightly. It was still a good night out and I did enjoy it. Then on Sunday afternoon me and my family went to see A Midsummers Nights Dreams and it was lovely. Some parts again I was left thinking "Why?" But overall it was lovely. The thing that I liked particularly about this production was that it was outside and I love open air theatre. We saw Macbeth last year and that was very good as well. So from Richard II to A Midsummers Nights Dream I have had a weekend of Shakespeare. A fantastic weekend.